The news surrounding the presidential campaigns back there are really not that exciting. I have been reading about them pretty religiously, but it really doesn't seem like much is happening.
This weekend, also, not much happened. I have been able to sleep in, which is nice. We opted not to travel this weekend. Next weekend we may make it to Warsaw, Gdansk or somewhere on the northern coast of Poland.
Our Polish friends who intended to take us clubbing disappeared for a while. They have a few exams this week. After those, I'm hoping to spend some time with them again. I went on a bit of a hike tonight and scoped out some evening destinations. However, the other guys were not with me. None of these places looked inviting enough that I was inclined to sit down on my own and hope that the people around me spoke English.
In Hungary, everyone on the trip was all about going out to bars and clubs. I was a wet blanket most of the time. Here it is the opposite. It's not even a problem that these guys don't drink (as I don't really either), but that they are OK just sitting around the dorm every night.
We don't even know our neighbors across the hall. This part is tricky because they are in finals right now. In the next few weeks most of our dorm-mates will move out.
It is my intention to work on solving these problems. I cannot for eight weeks interact with fewer than that many people.
Our classes here are getting trickier. I did our assigned reading for the weekend. The first half I had to slog through twice. The second half has not stayed with me at all yet. The chapters in Oxtoby take the better part of an hour to get to... and they're only three to five pages long. I look forward to lectures, since typically that is how I absorb information.
I am almost done with a new draft of my paper for SPT. This is a project I've been working on since my algorithms class first semester.
I've started looking at grad schools. Good grief. This will be an ongoing project... so far I have only the most elementary of research done.
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