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Dag 10: Finally done with my schedule!

Publicerad 2013-09-13 09:01:00 i Finland

I do not know how many hours I have spent trying to get a schedule together. Too many I think. At Aalto University the have something called "Academic freedom" which gives you the freedom to choose courses from different departments and programs than your own. It is pretty great actually but something am not used to at all. Until this point I have pretty much been given a handful of courses placed out on a weekly schedule with a lunch break in the middle. Very convinient :)
 
In my planning I have encountered many interesting course discriptions but due to prerequisites, overlaping, not overlaping but not enough time to move from one side of campus to another, wrong language of teaching etc. I have had to try to forget about some of them. In the process I have e-mailed quite a few professors. I have to give them credit for replying directly, usually within an hour!
 
Let me present my unevenly distributed Schedule for the fall:
 
THE NEXT FEW WEEKS
 
THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER :S

I hope that I can manage the second half of the semester. The light blue and the darker orange course are at different campuses with a 40 minute bus ride inbetween. Luckily the light blue course do not have mandatory lectures.
 

Dag 5: Slot machines

Publicerad 2013-09-06 18:23:00 i Dagens bild

 
I keep wondering if gaming is more common in Finland, or if I for some reason just have started to pay attention all one slot machines I see. This picture is from the bus station where I take the bus to campus. I understand that restaurants have the slot machines but grocery stores?? Quite a few grocery stores have them right by the check outs. Yesterday in the grocery store at campus a woman was playing.
 

Dag 2: Hanna testar: studentlunch

Publicerad 2013-09-03 14:07:00 i Dagens bild

This lunch only cost me 2.60 € when I showed up with my new Certificate of Student Status. Not the greatest food I have ever eaten but pretty good. Thumbs up for newly baked bread and watermelon! In Linköping I would just get a Jochen (sandwich) for the same price. Perheps I can skip matlådor this year.

All packed

Publicerad 2013-09-01 21:08:00 i Finland

Six years ago I had just moved to started school in a new country. Now I am about to do it again. It brings out a lot of memmories from back then, all cool new things the seventeen year old me got to experience, cotton fields, the huge WalMart, guys holding up doors etc. Earlier today I got nostalgic and took out my photoalbum that my host mom gave me and my high school yearbook. Looking at all pictures and kind inscriptions got me fuzzy and warm inside. I am so grateful for my year in North Carolina. I will NEVER forget it! I am excited to study in English again and discover a new country. Tomorrow at 6:35 the plane takes off and my next adventure begins.
 
Packing this time was a lot easier. I know better what I can expect of the Finnish climate and I also like to consider myself as more of an experienced packer/traveller. It helped me avoid the unneccessary things. However, as long as I had space and was within the weight limit I took the chance to throw in some extra things in my luggage. For those of you who know me well know that I very happily added a teddybear, my watercolors, stationary and a stove-top coffeemaker.

My current knowledge about Finland

Publicerad 2013-07-30 13:21:00 i Finland

In just about a month I will be starting up a new life in Helsinki, Finland. It amazes me how little I know about this country. To gather my thoughts and expectations I created this mind map with facts, preconceptions and Finnish phrases that I know. Perhaps I will make a new one in a year. Hopefully that one will be A LOT bigger.

New beginnings

Publicerad 2013-05-28 20:07:00 i Dagens bild

Freshness itself. Fragile Spring leafs. The scent of grass and flowers. I have come to realize that May is my favorite month. First ice creams in the sun. Warm wind. The ramp up to Summer. Simply he beginning of something else. This fall I will not be coming back to Linköping. I just found out that my application to Aalto University in Helsinki got accepted. Looking forward to exciting adventures in a neighbouring country that I know very little about.

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Design och product development engineering student. Right now doing a year abroad in the Finnish capital. Coffee, the Swedish West coast and creative projects make me happy. I love film festivals and do some filming and video editing myself.

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