If you go too fast, the scooter breaks

What I find also interesting about the day length changes is that while the days get longer continuously, you notice only at certain points and you are suddenly very surprised, how much longer the day got. For me it is the time when I go for dinner to hall at 17:45 almost every evening. In the first half of the term it used to be dark at that time and suddenly it is not. But that also means that term went by and I find it unbelievable that it is week 6 already.

One of the main events of this term was that my good old scooter broke. I was riding it through the park and there was a small bump on the road. I went over it and suddenly I found myself flying in one direction, but only the handle of the scooter was following me, the rest of the scooter was not. Fortunately, I landed on the grass and I had my gloves on so nothing really happened to me. I was really lucky though – if this happened on a busy road, this blog might not have been written. My first impulse, after I brushed off the grass, was to start laughing since the fall itself must have been very spectacular.

But then I did some maths and the sadness arrived: The scooter was my treasured companion for over 800 km and it served me well for 419 days. It also almost got me thrown out from the Computer Lab for riding it in its long corridors.

The good news is I bought a new one since the old scooter is unfortunately not really reparable. The new scooter is better, since it has two features which are fundamental in Cambridge: It has got suspension and mud guards. Suspension if great for all the tiled pavements around, mud guards for every other day when it rains.
The academical part of my life is quite similar to my life in the first term. I have only two subjects and hence the main focus is now on my project, which I spend most of my time on. The project is getting along quite well, I have a working client side and currently I am working on the server side and on the simulation that will be used to evaluate the performance of my project. All in all, life is going well and I am curious whether I will decide to continue my studies doing PhD or whether I will go for the industry.