Hiking higher

In the beginning of the trimester I had the unique opportunity to participate in a hiking adventure in Snowdonia National Park, Wales with Fellwondereres, and the hiking society. It was an amazing weekend of hard hiking in the mountains having typical awful weather. Particularly this experience is like being a student at Imperial College London. Both mean working hard and trying to reach the distant tops of snowy hills hidden in clouds. Occasionally, only short beaks to catch breath on the way are provided on the tiring but exciting journey.

The daily schedule is really demanding. Most of the lunch pauses are spent either on office hours or on lectures of academic English. Consequently, I face decisions between time for lunch or going to office hours of a lecturer or attend an academic writing practise session.

Studying Physics at Imperial College London is full of adventure. Physics lecturers provide us with lot of such adventure while explaining history of Quantum Physics as a soccer match between 3 teams at once. In addition, an analogy between solving Schrodinger’s equations and sausage machine was given. Most of the time, the pace of lecturers exceed the expected pace by students. In order to slow the pace at an end of a topic, lecturers are occasionally given an immense applause with enough repetition to cover the rest of the lecture.

My favourite studying place is the library. Unfortunately, I am not the only one who thinks so. Although the library is open non-stop rarely I can find a place except very late night. The library appears to be like a hive of bees that leaves every morning to fill the lecture theatres, laboratories and tutorial rooms.

The commitments towards academic families (explained in the last article) are demanding. Unfortunately, I recently failed to attend a family lunch reunion. In order to compensate that I hosted all available family members for a lunch next week. All my academic mothers provide me with significant help as I was given lot of lecture notes.

The expected Eastern holiday will not be holiday in true sense at all. Although they will last month, I will be a month of intensive studying. On the other hand, I must admit that studying abroad has surprising advantages such as multiple Christmas. Whenever a friend comes to visit London, I receive a package of all the best from the Czech Republic which is a fair equivalent to Christmas. Therefore, I had at least three Christmas.

And so I carry on the way towards the top of hills and my year at the university.