een semester in utrecht

Mein komplettes Wochenende war eine einzige Introduction. Freitags beginnend mit der Begrüßung an der Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften. Hatte allerdings einiges an Schwierigkeiten die überhaupt zu finden. Die ganzen Gebäude der Uni in Utrecht selbst sind wirklich gut in die Stadt integriert, außer einem Schild am Eingang weißt meistens nichts darauf hin, das sich dort Räume [...]

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Another Introduction day, but this time with a little more diversification, since I had to go to the city and not to De Uithof. The faculty of humanities also wanted to welcome me and a whole bunch of other international students as well.
Getting to the correct building was not an easy task. I have not [...]

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Today I had my frist lectures. The university system here is a little bit different from that in Germany. Here we do not have 2 semesters in an acadamic year, we have now 4 periods instead, each raound about 10 weeks. If you count them together you will soon realize that this is a bit [...]

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This day we had the opportunity to sleep out and recharge our inner batterys (We would definitely need them later on).
The day started relatively harmless. We had again a free lunch and aftwerwards some sports were on the program. But there was one little thing that they had not told us before. Namely that the [...]

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A new dawn, some cloudy sky, but at least no rain – the perfect weather to take a ride with the bicycle. The way was not very hard to find and also it was a great opportunity to see some areas off the university I have not seen before. I entered De Uithof via the [...]

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As if organizing my whole trip was not exhausting enough, I also had to stand up very early in the morning to be there in time. Half past four my alarm-clock woke me up.  Still drowsy from roughly fours hours of sleep I packed the last things I would need in Utrecht (including my laptop [...]

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