I’m just posting out of curiosity. I noticed that this blog doesn’t get any more press, for good reasons I know.
If anyone reads this and has sent me a message inquiring about the school, I am really sorry I never replied. I will try to reply to some people, but I know that it may be too little, too late.
I was really sad to leave Copenhagen. It was so hard for me to pack up my life and say good-bye to my friends.
However, life just keeps barreling along.
After less than a week of repose at home (in mid-June, btw), I started summer school at my home university, UCSD. The first 5 weeks are crazy busy, as I had 2 10-week classes condensed into 5 weeks. This drove me NUTS.
I did manage to have some fun, in the form of catching up with friends and running around photographing things for one of my classes.
I’ve still been in summer school for the past few weeks, for the second session. It’s only a physics course, though. it’s quite stressful still, but not nearly as frantic as the first session.
Being back reaffirms how different the way classes between KU and UCSD are set up. I spend A LOT of my time here in class. There is a bit more hand-holding, but a lot more concrete expectations of what needs to be studied/read/learned/etc. At KU, I felt a bit more lost, because classes were only once or twice a week. There was less guidance and less help overall. There are pros and cons to each side, but I am feeling more comfortable, these days, having that extra bit of structure.
I’ve said it so many times, but it’s true when I say that life back in California has felt very…surreal, very odd for me. I can’t believe that I’m back, but I am. And so much has remained the same, although little details of life have changed here and there. I heard one of my friends once say that their experience in Copenhagen was just like a dream, like it never really existed. I’d fear to say or feel that way. But I guess I can relate. Everything was so tangible, but everything that was tangible has sort of evaporated, and I’m left just reminiscing on the good times had.
What keeps me afloat is the thought that I still have friends all around, that I can talk to and possibly even go visit.
I hope to see Vicki and Charmaine in the very near future, as well as Thomas, who is doing another stint of studying abroad (and research) at Cal (from his home University, Uni of Linz).
I still blog. Just not here. My most currently updated blog is MULIGHED. Yes, it’s a Danish title, that translates to “opportunity.” I know I wanted a Danish title, and I just liked that one the best (and I already knew what it meant :] ).
If anyone still has questions, feel free to ask me there. I will do my best to answer in a timely manner.
For those of you that have studied at KU, I hope that your experience felt as fantastic as mine felt to me.
For those of you who are going to study abroad at KU, I am totally envious of you–I would love to go back and do it all over again, all the good parts and bad parts. I wish you the best of luck!
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