The last year?
I forgot to mention it before. University classes started on March 6th... My former classmates have graduated already (most of them), so I'm with a new class... The good point of being in Brazil is that it was fast to be befriended, so I have groups for most reports of the year already. Knowing some of them a little may had helped (they were "my freshmen" - free translation from a Brazilian expression when referring to people who turned into university freshmen when you were a sophomore).
But I guess I'm a little soft after staying in Japan... For example, I'm getting too used to solve things by the "conventional way", and irritated easier with the bureaucracy to do some things. Forgetting that here I'm supposed to pass my student ID everytime I enter the library... and I mustn't enter with my backpack, leaving it in a locker outside.
Not getting surprised with the computers when entering a Computer Science Lab... where there're the best computers available to undergraduate students in the campus (of course, only for Computer Science students...). Actually, even being a little disappointing because the ones at my university in Japan were better (expected... but even so...)
Forgetting about the eternal problems with equipments and professors' (and other workers') salary here... At least it seems that it won't trigger a strike this year. But the equipment problem is getting critical (this article exemplifies it, but it's in Portuguese)...
And some small things that I forgot... Like the university having so much "greenery"... that grows without much control during summer vacation. Of course the grass is mowed when we have classes nearby... And another thing that freaked me out was someone cleaning the lab building corridors with a hose. The concept of splashing water on the floor (sometimes with soap, but not in this case) to clean it is already strange to Japanese people... but doing it at the corridors of the Electric Engineering lab!? When the water was being splashed near the power cage I was chilled to the bones... Am I paranoid?
The good side is returning to a large campus with many different courses around... and lively with parties every weekend and other events. (Not that I usually go, but I found out that this liveliness is nice)
But I guess I'm a little soft after staying in Japan... For example, I'm getting too used to solve things by the "conventional way", and irritated easier with the bureaucracy to do some things. Forgetting that here I'm supposed to pass my student ID everytime I enter the library... and I mustn't enter with my backpack, leaving it in a locker outside.
Not getting surprised with the computers when entering a Computer Science Lab... where there're the best computers available to undergraduate students in the campus (of course, only for Computer Science students...). Actually, even being a little disappointing because the ones at my university in Japan were better (expected... but even so...)
Forgetting about the eternal problems with equipments and professors' (and other workers') salary here... At least it seems that it won't trigger a strike this year. But the equipment problem is getting critical (this article exemplifies it, but it's in Portuguese)...
And some small things that I forgot... Like the university having so much "greenery"... that grows without much control during summer vacation. Of course the grass is mowed when we have classes nearby... And another thing that freaked me out was someone cleaning the lab building corridors with a hose. The concept of splashing water on the floor (sometimes with soap, but not in this case) to clean it is already strange to Japanese people... but doing it at the corridors of the Electric Engineering lab!? When the water was being splashed near the power cage I was chilled to the bones... Am I paranoid?
The good side is returning to a large campus with many different courses around... and lively with parties every weekend and other events. (Not that I usually go, but I found out that this liveliness is nice)
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