Lectures

So I'm back with a new post, yay... Honestly I'm not too motivated right now to write something, but I'm a bit bored while waiting for Visual Studio to download. My head feels about twice it's size, my nose is really red (I look like Rudolph, *don't laugh, it's not funny!*) and instead of going to my 3 lectures today I slept most of the day... stupid Irish bugs ;-) *sorry* Actually it's just a bad cold. So enough of this boring stuff...

Lectures in Ireland are really really strange... I already miss my awesome lectures at ETH and all the great lectureres there! Just KIDDING. So far it's been great except for some minor details.

What am I doing this semester:

• I do Computer Graphics (taught by an awesome woman, Carol O'Sullivan). ***The course seems to be really interesting http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/cosulliv/teaching.html and dear ETH people, if you want to have a laugh just have a look at the LinAlg slides... Yeah, I thought she was joking, but she wasn't. As a short explanation to this extremely crazily kindergartenish introduction to LinAlg... also non-computer-scientists, such as mathematicians can take this course (doesn't seem to make sense tough anyway...). *** So I'm waiting for the interesting parts!
• Also I do Computer Vision... the peculiar thing here is that we're about 12 people in class, YES, it's crazy... and I think 4 of these are exchange students. Also funny, it's supposedly the best course and it really seems great. Guess the reason is that there are only about 30 students in 4th year of Computer Science... sucks!
• I do 3 Business courses:
• Introduction to Accounting (yes, seriousely, no joke!)... I met the professor personally already, yay... and he seems like the nicest person :-).
• Introduction to Operations Management... No idea, that course would have been today.
• Organisational Behaviour... This 2 hour lecture was hilarious, the lecturer is like an exaggerated form of Prof Kossmann and he's really really good! Imagine... we're in the biggest room in the arts building and people JUST fit in... So there's over 320 students (in all of these BESS courses) and the professor (Martin Fellenz) is making the whole lecture interactive... So he's walking around all the time, asking the people in the last rows questions and illustrating his points with great examples using the students... *** So, he said that people get motivated by money... One student said that this is not true, so he told her to stand up and wave at everyone... He went to this other guy, telling him to get up, that guy didn't do it, so the prof actually offered 5 Euro and the guy got up and gave the money back ;-). Later he offered money again for something and this time another guy kept it ***

• And I also do Management for Engineers... there we'll do a business game called SimProject (yes, VERY creative), but it looks like a bit of fun at least. 

So this all adds up to 40 ECTS (both computer courses are 10 KP each and the others are 5 each) and I have 23 hours of lectuers and tutorials.

So that's about it for the moment...