Finally L.A.

I mean Learning Agreement, not Los Angeles.. ;)

I had to change quite many of my original courses due to overlapping in my schedule. The overlapping was because I had accidentally taken my courses from the same "module" (which was not explained anywhere in the course catalog - and I wasn´t the only one with the same problem), but fortunately I found good, more interesting courses to take. 

The biggest problem of waiting for the L.A to arrive is the fact that I´m not able to access the course material in HUBwise (kind of like Noppa in LUT). I got some materials from some other students in the classes, but not all...

Finally, yesterday I received the signed final Learning Agreement from LUT (it´s good to be prepared for delays and just take it easy meanwhile) and I took it to the coordinator today. And, dadaaa, the same day, I got the courses to my schedule! Great!

So now my schedule looks like this:

Monday
10.30-12.30 Business Intelligence Methods
13.30-15.30 Business process and operations
15.30-17.30 ICT Strategy & Architecture

Tuesday
17.30-19.30 Environmental economics (I´m loving this course!)

Wednesday
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Thursday
10.30 - 12.30 ICT Strategy & Architecture
17.30-19.30  French (not for credits, for fun)

Friday
8.30-10.30 Global information management
15.30-17.30 Russian language & culture II

The time I´m not spending at school, I´m working 20 hours/week for CSR Forest project for LUT (http://www.lut.fi/en/business/research/researchprojects/Pages/CSR-Forest.aspx). That´s also related to my Master´s Thesis....

So, looks pretty nice, yeah?

After the first week at the University

As I mentioned in my previous text, I have quite a lot of overlapping with my courses.Happily I found interesting replacements, and now my schedule starts to look quite nice. It also seems that the courses won´t require too much time consuming group work, because the cases are done during the lectures at the university. I had yesterday the first Russian lecture (Russian culture & language) and I felt like I need to study a lot more words in order to manage that one. But a classmate said that they also have some difficulties in understanding the laughing, singing colorful Russian teacher. I think she made the afternoon quite interesting :)

So far the lectures I´ve had have been good, the professors speak fluently English and don´t use too much Dutch (except the Russian teacher). Most interesting course so far is the Environmental Economics, I really look forward the lectures every Monday evening.

I decided to add also voluntary French course (25 €) in the schedule. I figured that since I´m in a French speaking country for the next 5 months, I might as well try to learn the language. It´s a great opportunity I think.

Ok, now back to studies...