University_Life - Stormgrass

Computer rooms and spooky

For the first time in my career at the university of Vienna, I checked out the history department’s computer room. It’s not exactly easy to get in there though. You have to leave your student’s ID with the secretary, fill out a form, sign it, and are

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First classes = warm and fuzzy

Today I’m going to attend my first class this semester. Now, this may not sound like a big deal, but for me a first class of a semester (and I’ve seen a few by now) always is something special. It’s that one class I attend still fully

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All done

I completed my last exams for the semester, and all I’ve left to do is write a paper. Ach, there’s always a paper to write somewhere. Horst from The Aardvark Speaks has created a fiction blog, and I’ve got the honour of being part of it. It’

Give-Aways

Uni give-away #2 and #3 and some words on amateurish elections

Today I finally got ahold of two new give-aways. This part of my website has been suffering from a scandalous lack of entries, mainly because I have failed to pay attention to potential away-givers. Which again is due to an extensive use of my mobile mp3-player. Well, since elections for

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Another Lecture

I just noticed a surprising lack of postings in my “university give-aways” category. I should really start collecting every little piece I get. Oh well. Here’s another picture from a lecture I attended today. This time it’s linguistics, and I was bored stiff. I don’t know how

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Literature Lecture

I just returned from another long day at the university. “Long” as in three lectures. Oh well. The last one was a literature lecture on 20th century British drama, and I couldn’t resist shooting a photo with my cameraphone. So, enjoy the blurry reality of university life:

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Two cool things

Two cool things happened today: First, during a literature seminar, the person who did a presentation did this using a SimpleMepis Live CD and OpenOffice.org…how cool is that? When I asked him why he had chosen to do it this way, he said that it was his parents’

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Uni day and give-away

Today was the second day of the present semester, and once again I was reminded why I like university life. Attending lectures, walking through the halls of the main university building, buzzing with people excited to start their new independent life of being a student depending on parents or the

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Paper revisited

I forgot to mention that the paper I referred to two days ago was actually written in its entirety in OpenOffice.org. Which I’m a bit proud of even. I don’t know why exactly, since there are probably people out there who have written papers in OOo when

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Paper finally finished

Well, I’m done. And as always, after writing a paper within three days or less, I vowe to never again wait so long. Hell, from my experience I’m already waiting for the paper to be returned, because I didn’t use enough sources. Or didn’t indent my

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Medieval Schmedieval

My paper on code-switching is slowly but surely taking on some form, and tomorrow I’ll have to present it in class. Which is not a bad thing per se. But a bad thing considering that it’s quite an exhaustive topic, and my professor is what you would call

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Macaronic Poetry

In the course of my research for a paper I am writing, I stumbled upon this great definition of a kind of poetry dating back to the medieval and early modern period of English: This poetic art is called “macaronic” from macarones, which are certain dough made up of flour,

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Mr. Soliloquy

In case you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a bit of an anglophile. I like the language a lot, that’s one reason why I’m trying to actually get a degree which states that I’m officially liking the language. In the course of that effort, I had

Impressions

Austrian university disaster

The picture to the left is the hallway of the main building of the University of Vienna. Although it doesn’t look like it, it is the hallway of a ‘worldclass’ university. At least, that’s what the government wants us to believe. ‘Freed’ into autonomy at the beginning of

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Dark Ages

Off to a lecture on the Dark Ages. No, not the 80s.

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Shopping spree

Today, after trying to go to a lecture, but not being able to enter the lecture hall, because only one third of the students waiting fit into it, my girlfriend and I went on a shopping spree. Well actually, I didn’t buy much, I only bought a notebook. It’

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Semester plan

My plan for this semester: study for exams find suitable lectures and actually do pass exams find out what to do with my life Not that much of plan, is it?

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Holiday diary - paper terror

Alright, I finished my paper, I sent it off, now I have to redo it. Why? It doesn’t appear to conform to scientific standards. Never try to write a paper using an encyclopaedia. Always use primary literature, never have a go at something the easy way, if there’s

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Back from the real world

Well, I was out. Unsuccessful regarding the retrieval of information for my paper, but I made a snapshot of the university hallway. Fortunately, nobody was around, so I had all the time in the world to make a picture without people. “So, enjoy”:

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Going out now

I haven’t updated twice a day for a long time. So here it is. I’m going out. Got to find some new food for my camera and pick up some books for my paper. Have an even nicer day