I spent a large part of my day yesterday, August 21, waiting to register for my classes for this fall. I had picked out some courses before I came to Lund and even had them approved by various departments at N.C. State but didn’t think I would automatically be registered in these classes. My research led me to believe neither of the two computer science courses were even being offered this fall, so I was worried I would have to take all general courses instead. As I started looking into these general courses I realized what a nightmare their way of scheduling is! Classes seem to meet at different times and on different days depending on the week…making it very difficult to align two or more classes to work together.

Luckily, when I met with my advisor/coordinator, she told me I was already registered in two computer science courses and two general education courses. Great! But hold on just a second… I made the assumption that that meant the schedules of these classes would work out somehow. This was an incorrect assumption! Turns out only my two computer science courses would work and the other two are out. Will have to look into finding two others that work!

Apart from the class registration woes, I got to know a guy from Tokyo who was also waiting to register. It was pretty cool to talk about random stuff with someone from an entirely different part of the world. Everything from food to weather to jobs, etc. I also took the bus for the first time to the Swedish equivalent of Bed, Bath and Beyond to buy some curtains for my room! They help a lot. Swedes seem to have giant windows!

I had another SUSA (Introductory Swedish) class today where we learned some more conversational things like asking how someone is doing. Turns out Swedish has several ways to say “so-so” or “not so good”…I suppose when it’s winter nine months of the year that’s understandable.

Oh, and turns out biking everywhere is really exhausting when you normally hop in your car. That must be why I’ve been sleeping so well.