Wish you all a good start into 2008!29 December 2007
23 December 2007
Thesis Live-Ticker
Short update this time. After partying twice till 5am on wed and thu, helping packing a friend who moved on friday and going back home, I finally managed to sit again on my thesis. I literally hit the keyboard and the output of this weekend has been 9 pages arriving now at page 44. So, only the part about IBM, the reflection of the methodology and the conclusion to go - on max. 16 pages. Finally seeing an end of the tunnel :) Merry xmas! Over and out...
17 December 2007
X-am time
One week is left till it's christmas. Two weeks are left, till 2007 changes into 2008. And one month is left till I'll leave to Rotterdam. And I didn't realize any of this yet. Isn't that strange?
Well that's probably how students life is gonna be in the future. You study before christmas, you study during christmas and you study afterwards. Anyway, I'm glad that's it's the last time for me. But I'm somehow glad as well that I have some packed weeks behind me and that I never had the impression to throw a "joss stick"-party, to put a candle in the wind or to go shopping on sundays together with all those "65+"year-old who never have time during the week :)
I finished the interviews for my master thesis last week, handed in my term paper last week, had an exam on friday and one today - no more exams left in 2007. But does that mean that I have time again? Don't think so. Tomorrow I have to finish our report for the praxis project, then in the middle of Jan. I have my last exam in St.Gallen and of course my lovely thesis. I already picture myself during the next two weeks. My best friend: my laptop. Family is trying (!) to sing xmas-songs - Simon is writing thesis under the christmas tree. After having drunk to much wine on christmas - Simon is trying to write on his thesis. New years eve - Simon is spoiling the glass of champagne over his notes and his laptop. Anyways, we'll see if this is gonna be reality. I don't hope it. But hey, there's a good thing to. Everytime when I get bored with celebrations or when there's some work to do I can try to excuse myself as I have to write on my thesis :)))
So on this note, merry christmas! Enjoy it if you can!
Well that's probably how students life is gonna be in the future. You study before christmas, you study during christmas and you study afterwards. Anyway, I'm glad that's it's the last time for me. But I'm somehow glad as well that I have some packed weeks behind me and that I never had the impression to throw a "joss stick"-party, to put a candle in the wind or to go shopping on sundays together with all those "65+"year-old who never have time during the week :)
I finished the interviews for my master thesis last week, handed in my term paper last week, had an exam on friday and one today - no more exams left in 2007. But does that mean that I have time again? Don't think so. Tomorrow I have to finish our report for the praxis project, then in the middle of Jan. I have my last exam in St.Gallen and of course my lovely thesis. I already picture myself during the next two weeks. My best friend: my laptop. Family is trying (!) to sing xmas-songs - Simon is writing thesis under the christmas tree. After having drunk to much wine on christmas - Simon is trying to write on his thesis. New years eve - Simon is spoiling the glass of champagne over his notes and his laptop. Anyways, we'll see if this is gonna be reality. I don't hope it. But hey, there's a good thing to. Everytime when I get bored with celebrations or when there's some work to do I can try to excuse myself as I have to write on my thesis :)))
So on this note, merry christmas! Enjoy it if you can!
05 December 2007
The post without a title
Some time ago I wrote here, that there are some actions needed to make it a happy ending here in St. Gallen. Well there's some action going on indeed, but it's a colorful mix of ups and downs. For example in the last two weeks I conducted 6 interviews for my master thesis, I more or less wrote my term paper, we had our group presentation in the "sustainability" lecture, we progress with our practical project and I started last week with studying for my two exams in approx. 1.5 weeks.
The problem is that there are always setbacks. I called today 4 of the 5 clients Hilti gave me to contact for my master thesis interview. 2 asked me to send it by mail because they don't have time for an interview. One told me to call another day but not at 9 o' clock in the morning because they go to coffee break then. And the fourth one doesn't want to help because they don't have time. And Hilti didn't inform them yet that I'll contact them. Then I had a setback with my term paper as I couldn't find case studies. At least this is solved now, was successfull yesterday :)
Then there are group projects which sometimes drive you crazy. I especially liked my people who wrote in the document "we should do this and that" instead of actually making it. Or the one who changed small things in the first half and then wrote a comment that she won't do it for the second half as we should first take a group decision whether we want to change that or not! Aaargh!
The problem is that there are always setbacks. I called today 4 of the 5 clients Hilti gave me to contact for my master thesis interview. 2 asked me to send it by mail because they don't have time for an interview. One told me to call another day but not at 9 o' clock in the morning because they go to coffee break then. And the fourth one doesn't want to help because they don't have time. And Hilti didn't inform them yet that I'll contact them. Then I had a setback with my term paper as I couldn't find case studies. At least this is solved now, was successfull yesterday :)
Then there are group projects which sometimes drive you crazy. I especially liked my people who wrote in the document "we should do this and that" instead of actually making it. Or the one who changed small things in the first half and then wrote a comment that she won't do it for the second half as we should first take a group decision whether we want to change that or not! Aaargh!
Anyways, I have a bit more than a month left to try to finish things here in Switzerland. The ingredients for this time are:
1 thesis to finish
1 paper to hand in
3 exams to take
1 group project to finish
1 day moving my stuff to Bern
1 room to find in Rotterdam
1 nst-transition to make (if i ever get a successor)
1 paper to hand in
3 exams to take
1 group project to finish
1 day moving my stuff to Bern
1 room to find in Rotterdam
1 nst-transition to make (if i ever get a successor)
and of course
22 days not getting burned by candles
5 days not getting hit by a christmas tree
3 family christmas events to survive
3 times not drowning during different bashes
1 time not falling between 07 and 08
5 days not getting hit by a christmas tree
3 family christmas events to survive
3 times not drowning during different bashes
1 time not falling between 07 and 08
And again at the end of the post, the complaining part is much longer than the celebrating part. what an optimistic person I am :)
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing life's gristle,
Don't grumble
Give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse
When you're chewing life's gristle,
Don't grumble
Give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best
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