First impressions

With the first weeks of studying over, I think it makes sense to write down my first impressions of the best “one of the best” technical universities in the universe country.

Studying conditions are awesome. I knew about it before - live close by, went to uni for classes before admission. Especially liking new buildings, although there are some acoustics issue in one of them. But our schedule was a positive surprise. I was scared a lot by people saying students sleep for 6 hours and suffer, but we got an adequate - and more importantly late - schedule. Perhaps because we’re mathematicians and not engineers - others seem to have it worse. So, stable 8 hours of sleep it is for me - beats school, that’s for sure. (and less homework as well…)

Student events are neat. Crosswords, movies, music - there is something for everyone. And that’s considering I am yet to join any of the student organisations. Trying to be far more active than in school, getting into all sorts of (good) things.

Have a slight suspicion that I chose the “wrong” track in terms of my current speciality - I would define myself as 80% programmer, 20% mathematician, so obviously hoped for more coding from CS. But alas, the first semester has 2:1 ratio with math winning, and programming is mostly concerned with algorithms 😀. Though I think this is for the better - I came here for knowledge, not a diploma. If education consisted of learning programming languages and libraries, it would be easy, but pointless. So gotta study for linear algebra and analytical geometry exams…

p.s. - Scheme is very cool!