Back to school

I feel it’s about time I get back here and write a little something about what’s happening. I’ve been quite silent because, well, I was trying to put into words my entire experience in Stockholm and what I thought about the city. But I can’t. I just can’t find words for it, not in the way I can’t find words to describe Tokyo – more in the sense that I can’t express my experience because it wasn’t really that deep. I was mostly working there. It’s a nice city and I could see myself living and working there, maybe not all my life but there’s nothing wrong with it.

Another reason I’ve been silent is because life since I came back has been, well, busy. I haven’t really had that much to do, but there’s been a lot of different stuff happening and I kind of wanted to relax and try to adjust to the new environment, even thought it’s the old one.

And frankly, that’s the third reason I haven’t written much. I’m back to the old. I can’t think of many good things to write about. I’m back to a town where I can’t go out to a nice restaurant because there aren’t any, I can’t go to the closest town to go out to dinner because It’s a pain in the ass trying to get back home without a car.

Going from Tokyo to Stockholm was a step down, but it was still kind of alright, there was a subway and stuff was open a bit longer than here. Going from Stockholm to here.. that’s what I can’t describe. But it sort of the reverse of not being able to describe Tokyo properly.

One good thing I can report on is that we have finally (after 2 years) stopped studying introductory math. We have now started studying introductory physics! I included a picture of this semesters books, the biggest one “Introductory Nuclear Physics” has 800 bible-like pages of super-compact text and no images other than the occasional small graph on every 10 pages. Luckily we only have to read half of these books this semester and the other half during a semester next year.

Another good thing that has happened is while talking to a student counselor (about studying abroad) she said that not many people try to get into the exchange program where you spend 2 years in the other country. Apparently normal people don’t want to be away from home that long. This in turn increases my chances of being able to spend my last 2 years of school in Japan, probably at Keio or Tohoku university. I’m going to talk to the people responsible for the admissions of these programs and see what my chances are, I’ll keep you posted.