I’m very happy to find myself in a position where I do like the course I set taking me down on university roads. Studying at WU has been one of the most surprising and interesting experience so far in life. Right after sipping down my first can of Dr Pepper. Those two experience are very much alike, even though it doesn’t seem so at first glance. It was a very sweet – so were the people -, taught me not to judge too early – the first sip usually doesn’t tell the whole story, and I realized there was something out there I haven’t given a go and thus learned to be more open.

So here’s a warm hello to new friends I made over the last year. I hope I get to spend some of the upcoming years together with you. It was interesting to see many different characters (some more enjoyable than others *cough* *cough* – Nah, I’m just kidding) mixed up in one cage fighting for a common goal. Like hamsters taking turns in running the wheel. Whether that was Barcelona or several exam weeks. We did a good job and we sure can be proud of accomplishments.

Have a great summer, peeps. Stay safe, healthy and tuned. Want to see you return to Vienna in late summer/earily fall as I saw you waving good byes yesterday.

What is described below should not happen with the money you’re supposed to pay back with knowledge “purchased” earlier in life in college. If that “student loan” is a scholarship that your country gives you on a monthly basis, please understand that there comes certain responsibility. The tax payer will thank you.

Drink responsibly.

As seen on Twitter by lukeayresryan.

For the typical student: This could be you. Except not. Do not try this at home, unless you wanna burst into flames...

Got sick of pasta with pesto? Can’t taste any difference between the basil kind and the dried tomato variations? Looks like you run out of cooking skills. A student’s first reaction – that is quite successful on the short term – is to tend to the “local” (university) dining hall (aka Mensa in German). Food that requires zero preparation and no dirt in one’s kitchen seems adequate to one’s eating and cleaning needs and habits. Until student X realizes that there is a cheaper alternative that is more or less obvious to most of “them”. Yeah, cooking by yourself.

Well, to sort this thing out, once for all. Several times when I hang out with WU students, no matter where we are*, all sorts of topics result in a huge fight over the number of continents. Sounds ridiculous. But, I guess it shows that we don’t have a lot of Sachunterricht (that is general science class in pre-school here in Austria) at WU. Kids, get out your dusty dusty school atlases and in case you translated “atlases” to “Atlasse” (German), make sure to dig deep and look for this thing called Duden as well. Duh, because it’s “Atlanten”. 

Anyyhooo, here’s the clou (that rhymes in case you were wondering)… It all depends on how you look at it. 

We were all right.

We were all right, there are 4-7 continents.

* The mensa, Ride Club, Narrenkastl or that fancy restaurant “that guy made a reservation for.” (Me, that is)

Can you tell I’d rather post ridiculous blog posts in lieu of studying?

Where is a truism: Some classes appear to last like forever. Excuse the simple langauge, but it seems to be the best way to put it in a nutshell. May it be a lack of interest, quality of the teaching personnel or what reason so ever that can distract you and tear down your attention span to a ridiculously small level. Check out this very illustrative video extracted from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (an American friend and I introduced to some Brits exactly one year ago)… 

Wait, what? You still don’t know Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? Well, I think you have some catching up to do in addition to what you missed in <insert particular class that has been removed for anonymity reasons> that is a perfect representative for a de-progressive mind attention class as time proceeds. Our lecturer asks in a slightly different manner except with pointing out people who then have to come up with SOMETHING; he woudn’t let the questioned person go.

Ferris Bueller – Anyone…Anyone… by Every10Mins.com

If you attend WU and/or have been to the Gluehweinstandl right in front of our beloved university, you couldn’t help but notice that the American Ambassador Girard-diCarlo will deliver a lecture and invites students to an open discussion on his lessons of leadership he has learned over the years.

I am really curious what he has to say about the current American pickle-ish economic situation. Googling him I came across with a picture and something told me I knew him for some reason. Until I realized that the ORF (when waiting for results of the first states to come in) had to fill their program with more or less relevant interviews during the Election Marathon night I held in order to be one of the first to call Barack President-elect of the US of A. One of the rather interesting interviewees was the Ambassador Girard-diCarlo, and that’s why I’m attending.

December 16, 4 pm. WU Festsaal (the happy place I took my miserable maths test in). Admission is free and can only be granted with prior registration.

“Seien Sie nicht überrascht, wenn Sie in der Praxis andere Kontenklassen vorfinden.” Just did the following thing…” http://is.gd/abv5.

(Do not be surprised if you find different classes of accounts in practice.) – my tweet on it.

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• Grab the book closest to you. Now.
• Go to page 56.
• Find the 5th sentence.
• Write that sentence as your status.
• Copy these instructions as a comment to your status. Or link to this entry providing the rules: http://is.gd/abv5.
• Don’t go looking for your favourite book, or the coolest one you have – just grab the closest one (I even grabbed a German book, so really no being picky about the closest book).
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