Final exams and the last days

Hello my loyal readers,

This will probably be the last or penultimate entry of my blog, depending on how much inspiration I find in Germany to write a 'welcome back' post. So enjoy this report as if it were the last.

So, what has happened in the last month? Let's start with the most interesting part, the exams. In short: I passed 4 out of 5 modules, which I am personally quite satisfied with. Now let me briefly describe each exam. The first exam was in Probability Theory. This module was the most important for me simply because it's math and it fits best with my studies in Leipzig. After the results were published, I was initially a bit sad because I only got 45/100 points and I thought I had failed. After a short email to the professor, it turns out that you only need less than 50% to pass the module and I got... 45 points. A good horse only jumps as high as it needs to. Grade: 2 (Germany: 4; Croatia has grades from 5 (very good) to 1 (failed)).

The second exam was Digital Video. I only needed about 3 points in this module to pass overall, so I prepared accordingly: I spent 2 hours the day before reading the materials and that was it. In the exam itself, I simply wrote down everything I knew and finished after 20 minutes (out of a possible 2 hours). Somehow, I scored 28.5 out of 40 points in this exam, which was better than the midterm where I had read a lot more. Apparently, this module was either easy for me or I'm a genius. Grade: 4 (Germany: 2).

Then on Monday, I had a 'exam' in Renewable Energies. It was less of an exam and more of a nice conversation with the professor over coffee. We talked for 10 minutes about wind energy and its benefits, and then we talked about life. That's how I imagine exams. Grade: 5 (Germany: 1).

The next exam was Digital Logic. The problem was that I only needed about 8 points to pass the module, but because you needed a minimum score of 10 points in the exam, I unfortunately failed in the end. It's not a big deal. The module was useless anyway: too serious for what it was and the translations of the tasks were sometimes cryptic. Well, 4 out 5 is a good score in my opinion.

My last exam was on Sustainability. It was a short multiple-choice test with relatively simple questions. I did it with ease. Grade: 4 (Germany: 2).

So that covers the exam topic for those who are only here for that. What else happened in the past month? Not much. January went by incredibly fast and I felt like I had no time for anything. Of course, I met up with friends and I always had something to do, but still, January was practically non-existent. So this adventure is slowly coming to an end. It was a great time, but I'm glad to be back in Germany and see all the people in my life. Zagreb is a beautiful city in itself, but without the people I have met here, Erasmus wouldn't have been as awesome as it was. This showed me that no matter where you end up and no matter how ugly, breathtaking, or fantastic a city or place is, it all means nothing without the people you like. I'm a bit sad that I won't see the special people I met here regularly anymore, but it feels like everyone is already planning a visit to each other and with today's technologies, it's not difficult to stay in touch. That's why I'm overall happy to close this chapter in my life and say that I have experienced and learned something.

Thanks to all of you who read this amateur blog and waited for updates. Of course, I can't write everything that I experience here because it would either be too much or I simply forget or don't think about it at the moment. In conversations, you will definitely hear some bonus material from my study abroad experience, so you have to stay in touch with me to know everything, sorry.

As a small conclusion after all the sad talk: things I (won't) miss here in Zagreb:

- Miss: saying 'Bok' (which means both 'hi' and 'bye' and 90% of my conversations in the dormitory are just: 'Bok', 'Bok')

- Miss: Burek (more or less puff pastry filled with cheese, which you can buy on every corner and it's simply the best)

- Won't miss: smoking in bars, cafes, and clubs (that's self-explanatory. After every evening, my clothes smell like a whole cigarette factory)

- Won't miss: Zagreb has a lot of cars and Croats drive 'differently', to put it nicely

And with that, I say goodbye to all of you and wish you all an exciting life now that my blog is no longer part of your reading material.

See you soon

William the Returner