Greetings from Canada! The new term has started and campus life goes on as well. I've founded an indoor soccer team for the intramural championship of McMaster, called Team Europe. So far, we've won two games and only lost the first one, so we're improving. I also went to the bowling afternoon of the International Office, joined some parties of my friends, learned how to play Poker and Guitar Hero, and watched the McMaster Marauders Basketball Team on the road to the play-off. See the campus life photo album for some pictures. After some weeks of hard decision-making, I've finally figured out the courses I want to take. It's quite hard to do that, as the university seems to cancel courses just as they like. For instance, I was sitting in a lecture hall and half an hour after the planned start of the lecture the secretary came and told us, that the course won't be given for that term - great :-| However, my courses will cover neural networks, medical image reconstruction (for MRI), and biomedical instrumentation, so I've got lots to do!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Start of Term Two
Greetings from Canada! The new term has started and campus life goes on as well. I've founded an indoor soccer team for the intramural championship of McMaster, called Team Europe. So far, we've won two games and only lost the first one, so we're improving. I also went to the bowling afternoon of the International Office, joined some parties of my friends, learned how to play Poker and Guitar Hero, and watched the McMaster Marauders Basketball Team on the road to the play-off. See the campus life photo album for some pictures. After some weeks of hard decision-making, I've finally figured out the courses I want to take. It's quite hard to do that, as the university seems to cancel courses just as they like. For instance, I was sitting in a lecture hall and half an hour after the planned start of the lecture the secretary came and told us, that the course won't be given for that term - great :-| However, my courses will cover neural networks, medical image reconstruction (for MRI), and biomedical instrumentation, so I've got lots to do!
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Christmas Break in Austria
As the first term in Canada ends already before Christmas, I was able to return to Austria for two weeks. Of course, these two weeks weren't really a break but there was a lot to do! The photo album tells its own story: my mum and my brother Christian picking me up at the airport in Munich, playing icehockey with the Omicron team, visiting the Christmas market (hot wine included), some winter hiking and skiing trips with my friends & family, tobogganing at Berguen (longest track in Europe), New Years Eve in our cabin in Furx, chocolate fondue in Hard (one of my Christmas presents), and finally driving carts in Linz. Leaving Austria after such a great time was very hard, especially as Julia is staying there this time and I've got to continue alone over here. However, we knew that before and we're both looking forward to Easter, when we'll go to New York!
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