University Life

And thus I conclude my studies

Well, not quite. But today I finally received the grade for my last class. Which means I can now hand them all in and hope everything works out. Not that there’s anything I actually *know *about that could go wrong, but trouble tends to come in the most plentiful

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Gregory of Tours - online

I just found out that the whole of the Ten Books by early medieval scriptor Gregory of Tours are accessible online via Wikisource. To most of you this may sound as interesting as the discovery of yet another website featuring tiny kittens, but for me it means I will have

drawings

Figures

People are not meant to sit in seminars longer than 90 minutes.

History

Tuition or bust

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, and answering the comment by “eigenschaft”, I will now write a bit about the watered down compromise I mentioned yesterday: the one about the tuition fees. Tuition fees were introduced by the Schüssel government in 2001, only shortly after the minister for

Give-Aways

In which I finally present a new give-away

It has been a rather long while since the last give-away I received. Actually, the whole experiment hasn’t been as vibrant as I had imagined, but hey, that’s what experiments are for. Tor prove or disprove. In my case, the hypothesis of the thousand give-aways turning me into

History

Carinthia, medieval

I’m back from the excursion, and I brought a shitload of pictures. Click here to see the batch on my site’s own gallery, or click here to admire them from within Flickr (if you’re planning on leaving witty comments!). I don’t think I’ve ever before

Travel

Gone for some

For the next five days, I’ll be on an excursion through the nether world of medieval Carinthia. Naturally, I’ll be more or less offline. You can resume addressing your parchments to me on Sunday. Farewell, and have a good week.

Impressions

Park Session

Thanks to the outspread infrastructure of the University of Vienna, I am constantly discovering new places. This time it’s a park next to the university building that hosts, among other things, the tiny, tiny institute for numismatics. I’m attending a lecture there on medieval gold coinage, and although

University Life

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I would really like to add something interesting to my weblog, but my mind is blank. Somehow I’ve managed to put myself into the position again where I’ve only got a few days left to write a seminar-paper; please don’t ask me why I don’t learn