I'm sure there happened a lot but actually I can't remember that much right now...
A sure sign that I'm settling in and get some kind of routine at last.

Ok, on Tuesday I didn't do much except writing my essay. I'm not really satisfied with it but I don't know how to change it at the moment. Somehow I have the impression that I wasn't able to say everything the way I would like it to come out, if you know what I mean. But I didn't manage to find better fomulations, and I can't blame my non-native-ness exclusively for this. Well I'll see what my supervisor has to say about it.

In the evening I went for a small Linguists Party, basically all people of he college who study Modern Languages came together for some glasses of wine and nibbles in the Rector's Lodge, quite conversationally, I met some new people, I met some people I had met before, and two hours later we were all considerably tipsy and staggered back to our rooms.

Today was a rushed day in some respects.
I overslept a little and had to hurry for my lecture at 9. I managed to be on time but without breakfast, so I grabbed a sandwich on my way home. Half an hour later I went to Somerville College where I have a graduate seminar about the poems and music by Oswald von Wolkenstein, a medieval writer. It was really cool, we are only 12 people (and this is considered a large group here!!) including Almut Suerbaum and Prof Palmer (if you study Medieval German Literature, you shuld have heard of him ^^), so we got into a rather complex discussion about one of Oswald's poems.
As this seminar ended at 1:30, exactly the time when college stops serving lunch, I had to grab another sandwich. In the afternoon I edited a bit of my essay and wrote the list of references; somehow this seems so little in comparison to what I have to write in Germany! I can't remember when I had a paper with only 6 references in Germany...

In the evening I went to another Rector's Seminar, this time it was Stella Rimington, former Director of MI5 speaking. Wow, that was one interesting talk. :)
She told us about how the different secret agencies in the UK work together, what the difficulties are concerning legal actions and safety vs. private interests, how it was for her to be the first female Director of that agency, and she answered an awful lot of questions concerning national security issues and the strategies how the agencies deal with terrorism (not in detail though, only conceptional). She is a very charismatic person and I would have liked talking to her for some hours more than she was actually here. ^^

Even later in the evening I went to the Scientific Society to see a presentation about Computer Visualisation.
The presentation was held by an employee of the Microsoft Research Centre in Cambridge, and included basic experiments and presentation of the problems of programming algorythms for AI visual systems as well as stereo vision problems (concerning AI) and of course graphic rendering and simulating textures for Hollywood film companies.
Here you can find the detailed term card of the society for this term. I'm so happy that I found this society, I can stay up to date with scientific questions I wouldn't hear about in Germany so soon and effortless! My inner geek is drooling. <3

When I finally went back to college I discovered that my network connection in my room isn't working (therefore I'm sitting in the Balsdon Room again). I checked every possibility I could think of but it just doesn't connect me to the college network.
Well, if it's not better tomorrow I'll contact IT help. Sometimes it's great to be "only" a student, and not an IT student assisstant... ^^'

Enough stories for today, tomorrow will be a long day as well: 3 lectures during the day and in the evening it's the Film Night of the German Society in Worcester College. They are showing "Good bye Lenin"! :D
You see, I won't be bored that easily here.