I must apologize for being late on this. Yesterday was the opening ceremony... two of them, actually. One took place in the main building and the other in a more specific institute. We had the minister of education during the first one, as well as a few cameras. There was a song in Latin, which was probably the hymn of the university ( now I shall play you the song of my people ). A bit foreign to me, seeing as how I can't speak any of that language. I just stood up and watched the older guys sing along. Most of the greenies didn't sing, either.
The first ceremony only lasted an hour or so. The second was followed by a tutor lesson and took up 5 hours as a whole. I think the introduction was a little too long.
Next day ( today ). My first day as a student ( we don't call high schoolers students here ). I had the privilege to make the schedule myself, but I was a bit late and had to settle with a bad one, but I'll probably change it for the better when opportunity arises.
Anyway, my first lesson started at 8:15 AM and it was higher mathematics. One of my favorite subjects of the day. We revised some of the old stuff and also took a look at complex numbers ( don't know if the wording is the same in English as in Estonian ). The second lesson was physical worldview. Loved the teacher. Not much on the subject itself, he was more into getting familiar with the 100 students in his class. Oh, and before someone says I shouldn't call him a teacher, he said himself that he is totally fine with people calling him so and regards it as an honor. Third up was programming. I had no idea that I have actually programmed before, but it turned out so. There is this game called Morrowind I have written a few scripts for, but the scripting language is not the same as Python, which we will be learning. I have thought of making a seperate blog for Morrowind where I show how to do stuff with the game, but I fear that would be one hobby too much. Fourth... computer hardware. I think those lectors didn't plan much for the introduction and were hoping for questions to fill out the 1,5 hours. Didn't work and we learned nothing about the subject itself. Fifth was the basics of mathematics, a class where we took a look at highest and lowest common denominators of two or three numbers. I do not know if it's called the same in English, so I'll just give you a little example of what I'm talking about. The lowest common denominator of 6 and 9 is 3. The highest is 36. Pretty basic stuff, huh? Well, it's the basics of mathematics. But this seems very abstract to me and a specific way to find these common denominators sounds a bit excessive. I have learned it in school and never used it again because in my experience there simply is no need for it. In situations where I've needed to find these, I have only had to use my head a little and voila!
Overall, I had a lot of fun. Oh, wait, I forgot to tell you about the really funny parts. Aside from jokes made by the lectors now and then, I saw some really cliche stuff during the lectures. A girl playing minecraft on laptop. A guy watching lolface memes on 9gag.com. Since that guy was sitting in front of me, it was nice to glance over what he was looking now and then and have a laugh. Despite that, people here have some property I can't quite explain, especially some of the lectors. It's slightly foreign to me, but I like it.
Also made a few friends. You should have seen the face this one guy made when I told him what subject I was on. I've heard that you get that from most who are studying something else. Not my roommate, though. He didn't spend the entire day ( 8:15 to 17:45 ) in school like I did, but he got some homework involving memorizing spinal bones and their Latin names. He's studying to be a doctor, in case you didn't already figure that out. Anyway, he's also feeling a bit of heat, but looks like he already handled it all. Well, I'm off to read a book about Python.
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