First day at school

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Today was my first day at school after summer break. I was so glad when I saw this building again cause to me it means a new year with a lot new interesting things for me to learn. I’m in my third year now so that means that I’m finally in my specialization years!

When I arrived at school it was nice to see a lot of familiar faces again and to catch up about what everyone has been doing during summer break. On the other hand there were some people I was hoping to see again but due to the change of classes I think I will see them a lot less this year.

My first lesson was German but this won’t be too difficult I guess cause we only have to be able to use german documents so we don’t have to learn the full grammar.
My second class was nuclear physics, a subject I was looking forward to for almost a year now. I was hoping to delve into the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics but unfortunately we only see these subjects in the context of for us useful applications. So I hope that I’ll find a good course or a good book about it somewhere so I can study it in my own time. (Don’t call me crazy now. You’re passionate or you’re not! And I am : ) )
The last course of the day was digital techniques and we will learn there to program hardware.

Thus it was a nice day at school and I am looking forward to the knowledge contributing to my specialization, but not everything I would like to know will be taught at school. Luckily there are weekends!

Back to school thoughts

Today I received my timetable for my first trimester. This mail made me realize that summer break is almost over!

By now I should have decided something about my internship but I really have no idea what to do with it. I just want to do it all I guess. (more about this inĀ this post)

Studying my timetable I noticed that I have more classes than last year while I was hoping for an extra day off, but school is my job and when you have a full time job you go to work five days a week so I have no rights to complain. On the other hand I am in my third year now what makes that I get the courses I really chose for. A lot less general courses and a lot more physics, chemistry and stuff like that. One of the courses I’m really looking forward to is nuclear physics. I hope I’ll learn a lot of interesting things there that are useful in my further career.

So now it is time to get everything out of this last half week of summer break and then back to school to meet some new challenges!