The day started pretty early in the morning. I woke up, tried to be quiet while going out of the room to take a shower so that I don't wake up my roomies. But since my alarm went off and it woke me up there's a high chance my roomies woke up, too. Well, considering it this way I didn't want to hinder them falling asleep again. And it is kind of tricky having all of your stuff in two suitcases and always searching for everything (making a noticeably loud noise) every single day.
I missed the bus. Then we got into heavy traffic and it literally took twice as long to get to my final destination. I got off some stations earlier to gain some minutes by foot. Of course I couldn't make it on time to university. They take the presence at courses pretty seriously at Sciences Po so I didn't know what to expect but the prof wasn't mad even though I was 30 minutes late but, well, it was the first time. By the way, one course is 120 minutes long. Next time I'll go by foot, that'll solve the problem. Seriously, we were taken over by pedestrians all the time!
CROUS of the day:
This system is so brilliant! I wonder why there isn't a system like that in Hungary. There was a reduced price for lunch when I went to grammar school in Hungary but nothing like this for feeding or housing university students exists. At least not on a national level as I know. A meal in Paris would maybe cost around €20-€25. Compared to €3,25, well... But a meal for non-students at CROUS costs around €7,50-€8 so it's a reduction of about 50% at CROUS. If I take into account the Indian food I ate for €14, which wasn't able to make me full up, then the approximation of a meal being €20-€25 is quite right.
There are CROUS cafés, too. You can do your homework there if you want, too, since there are enough tables. At least at the beginning of the semester. I haven't received permission to take photos of the place so no photos about how cool CROUS looks like in the blog, sorry. A student can drink an "expresso" for about €0,60. Even for the Hungarian price level this can be considered cheap let alone the French and the Parisian price levels.
It can do all the things you normally expect to be doable during a presentation with a beamer 99% of the times.
In the evening I wanted to get to a language practising event with a friend but we didn't manage to get there. There was a boat filled to the brim with people but nothing else. As the battery of my phone couldn't take the freezing cold while looking for the place and my phone hibernated itself we gave up and went home.
It turned out we should have gone to that boat we saw. Believe me, if you want to practise a language then a bar or a disco or any other loud place is not the place you should do it unless you have mastered the language more or less. But why would you call it practise in this case?
CROUS of the day:
This system is so brilliant! I wonder why there isn't a system like that in Hungary. There was a reduced price for lunch when I went to grammar school in Hungary but nothing like this for feeding or housing university students exists. At least not on a national level as I know. A meal in Paris would maybe cost around €20-€25. Compared to €3,25, well... But a meal for non-students at CROUS costs around €7,50-€8 so it's a reduction of about 50% at CROUS. If I take into account the Indian food I ate for €14, which wasn't able to make me full up, then the approximation of a meal being €20-€25 is quite right.
There are CROUS cafés, too. You can do your homework there if you want, too, since there are enough tables. At least at the beginning of the semester. I haven't received permission to take photos of the place so no photos about how cool CROUS looks like in the blog, sorry. A student can drink an "expresso" for about €0,60. Even for the Hungarian price level this can be considered cheap let alone the French and the Parisian price levels.
There was an
introduction to the administrative and operative university system late in the
afternoon (Question: what do you consider as late in the afternoon, early in
the afternoon, late at night, early in the morning, etc.?), meaning 5 p.m. to
me. Afterwards I found a neat little device on the table I can recommend to
every university.
It can do all the things you normally expect to be doable during a presentation with a beamer 99% of the times.
In the evening I wanted to get to a language practising event with a friend but we didn't manage to get there. There was a boat filled to the brim with people but nothing else. As the battery of my phone couldn't take the freezing cold while looking for the place and my phone hibernated itself we gave up and went home.
It turned out we should have gone to that boat we saw. Believe me, if you want to practise a language then a bar or a disco or any other loud place is not the place you should do it unless you have mastered the language more or less. But why would you call it practise in this case?
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