My week

In case you were wondering.

Monday:
Wake up at 7 to run out the door at 7:40 to catch the 7:45 subway to Garching. My stop is near the start of the line so there's always empty seats. Have to switch lines though. Second subway holds all the students going to Garching. Usually don't get a seat. Hover over a group of seats in the hope that someone gets off at a stop. Grab seat. Get to Garching. Determine which day it is. On Monday lecture is in the Mechanical Engineering building. On Wednesday it's in the Computer Science building. Go to lecture. 8:30-10:00 Get out of lecture. Trek over to Computer Science building to turn in homework in a mail box. Chill/work/internet in a library/at a table until lunch. Eat lunch. Return to Computer Science building and chill/work/internet until "Central Discussion section" where another professor works problems for us. 2:15-3:45 Run to catch subway. Take subway across Munich to my main campus stop and walk 12 minutes north to random group of buildings with all the psych/sociology classes. Go to Developmental Psych lecture. 5-6:30. Head home. Every other Monday a nearby church opens its doors as a meeting place for all the exchange students from 8 pm until late. A different country of students takes turns cooking for 200 or so. Every other Monday I attend.

Tuesday:
Wake up at 7:45 to catch the 8:35 subway to get to main campus stop at 8:45 to walk 12 minutes north to Religion Sociology class which 9-10:30. Attend. Have probably read the 10 pages or so of sociologists' writings in Germany but not understood a word. Trek 17 minutes back to main campus and chill in library till lunch. Nxt class not till 3. Intensive German as Foreign Language. Study German grammar till 6. Class should to till 6:30 but teacher continuously lets us out at 6. Dinner. Studying.

Wednesday:
See morning same as Monday except Linear Algebra is in a different building. Hang out after class with laptop. Run to eat early lunch at 11:30 to get back for the TA Discussion section from 12:15-1:45. Homework in library. Head to chemistry building (the only class I'm there for...) for 4-7 pm Bio lecture. If lucky, the assistant is teaching the class in which case I pay attention. If not, the mono-tone professor who does not like speaking loudly or clearly is teaching in which case I read the slides on my own and multitask on computer. Hope he lets us out in time to catch the 6:50 subway. If not, leave early. Take subway back to Olympiazentrum. Get in at 7:20. Grab a sandwich at the bakery on way to dance class (held in sports center). Go to dance class. Learn how to: (as of now), dance the blues, disco fox (apparently a European thing?), fox trot, cha-cha-cha, international waltz and viennese waltz. Class 7:30-8:30. Walk back with Oana, an international student from Romania who's studying here all four years and lives in my building.

Thursday:
Every other Thursday wake up as Tuesday to get to Basic Sociology class that meets every other week in same building as all other soc/psych classes. There are five of us in the class including a girl who was born in the US but has lived in Germany since she was like 5 or 6. We discuss the 23 page article in German over sociology we read over coffee and cookies. Actually, quite a fun class. Head back to main campus for lunch. Head to LMU (Ludwig-Maximilian University, the "liberal arts college" that the TUM (Technical University of Munich) kids look down on but is actually also an extremely good university) for my Economic History of the New Worlds, a class taught... in English!... by a professor from New Zealand. That one is fun. Class 2-4. Done for the day (4 is my early day...) and for the week. No class on Friday.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday:
Explore Munich and the surrounding area, hopefully hang out with friends at night, and at some point fit in reading the combined 30 pages of sociology in German and doing the linear algebra homework. Eventually I'll also get around to learning the material for psych and economics.


Coming up- We went to Nuremberg last weekend!