...Lo aNd BeHoLd...
Imagine this: Every morning you wake up, get ready and head to the subway for school. As the escalator to the surface brings you higher, a building of splendid architecture greets your eyes. Breathtaking from every angle, majestic in every light. You walk further down the lane and reach a great fountain surrounded by greek, medieval-like buildings. You skirt the fountain and enter a great hall with spiral stairs, each side of the stairs adorned by the statue of a man looking down upon the school in pompous stature. As you walk up the stairs of the grand hall, multiple alleys lined with pillars that emanate an aura of the ages line the very pathways that have been set. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Ludwig Maximiliians University.
Lessons started today. Following the Dean's address, we were given a tour of the faculty of Physics as well as the school. After the opening address, it was time for lunch. The cool thing about lunch here is that they have something to the effect of a kopitiam (A Mensa)- That is you pay using a card topped up with money. After lunch we went though a first substansive lecture. It was on Bose-Einstein Condensation and how they use it in everyday experiments such as examining lattice structures. The lecture though a little dry was substantiated by a lab visit which was way cool. I don't recall having seen so many gizmos on a single table-top before.
The 'academic' day concluded with the lab visit. It was time for shopping and dinner! What made things better today was that the weather was awesome. The sun was out, and there was no rain. So we travelled the streets which we couldn't travel through the day before, due to the rain. The ice-cream here is fantastic. Not caring about the cold weather, I had three different types of ice-cream. Sadly, our attempts to try the beer at the beer garden failed today- crazily crowded. Oh wells, another day then... :)
....AnGeLs BrOuGht Me Here...
No comments:
Post a Comment