Life of Åsmund A working life

QUOI DE NEUF?

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Or as they say in English, "What's up?"

I haven't blogged about everyday stuff for a long time, so I thought I should update you all on what's happening here in Toulouse, besides not being in Toulouse (also known as travelling).

Last update from Toulouse was the fact that I've got new glasses, but that's a long time ago, at least it feels that way.

So what is new?
I had two exams just over Easter, one in the complicated course Electronique du solide 2, and the other in the somewhat less complicated course Electronique. The exams went pretty much as expected, nothing truly exiting to write about.

What annoys me though is the "French way" of having exams. I say "French way", because I haven't heard of any other nation that allows exams in such a way as they do here in France.

The worst thing is how easy it is to ask others, share answers and in general to cheat. In the examination room we normally sit next to each other and it seems like the professors (at least some of them) don't care if students collaborate during the exam.

Another thing I find weird is how the exercises we get was identical to a TD (traveaux dirigé, meaning exercises solved with help from the professor). This was the case of the Electronics exam where we additionally were allowed to bring all the TDs with us to the exam. So the exam was basically copy paste of something the professor had already done for us. How can we show what we know with such an exam?!

And now something completely different:
Kristian, one of the three Norwegian musketeers, has returned to Norway. We'll miss him the last two months, but he's in Trondheim so I'll see him around!

Last Saturday I had a great dinner the BEE team. We ate at a nice Italian restaurant, before we had fun at Café Pop's Farmer's party!

The BEE team at the restaurant (Photo: Teddy)

Today I tried climbing again, for the first time in well over a year. It's been way too long and I am restarting on beginners level. Tons of fun though, even if I can barely grip a bottle right now.

So that's the past. On Tursday I'm visiting Torbjørn who is studying in Antibes, not far from Nice. Torbjørn is a good beachvolley buddy of mine and also one of my future colleagues this summer.
I think we're going to have a great time!