No break yet!

I have got news, one is good the other not so good the third one is bad. I will start with the good news which is the completion of the exams. The exams period is not one of my favourite moments as it limits my movement and time. There isn’t much you can do apart from revising and hoping that you don’t miss on anything and while you may comfort yourself that you will only revise on key areas you cannot brush aside the thought that probably 80% of the areas you don’t revise on will come in the exams. Well that torture is behind me at least for the moment and I can let my brain relax as I choke on the thought of the next exam session in two weeks hoping that the results will be good.

That makes my not so good news having to attend lectures and sit for exams while the rest of the student community is on vacation. While it is comforting to know that the library and the halls will be less crowded it feels like going to school on saturday or sunday. That reminds me, as a kid I remember the day I woke up early and dressed up ready to go to school only to be informed that it was saturday. Yeah, it is a contradiction but I loathe silence and empty space I would like to be in crowded lifts and halls having to fight for space in the libarary and having to line up in the mensa and board the crowded bahns, it makes me feel that I am not alone. Why can’t we just all go for the vacation at the same time and reopen at the same time?

The bad news ist that the mensa staff have gone on strike, and that means no lunch, just imagine on a monday! Imagine coming from a lecture room so tired and hungry headed for the mensa only to find that there is no real food, and you have to settle for soup and bread. Others may have no problem with that, but I definetely do, I have never really considered soup as part of food, don’t tell me about the nutritive value blah..blah …blah, I need real food which in many cases comes in a solid form. I am not sure of why the mensa staff have gone on a strike, but if it has to do with anything like salary increasement or better working conditions then I totally support them, all I am asking them is to come to an agreement soon so that I don’t end up starving, not with this winter.