I had the brilliant idea of starting a blog about doing a Masters degree because, of course this is of interest to everyone. Let me clear this up, by
brilliant idea, I mean one of those that come about when you spend
around 5 hours in a low oxygen room staring at some matlab code with function handles (things that up until today I had no idea existed).
Anyhow, perhaps some poor schmuck out there is
considering studying a Masters in Mathematics / Computational Science in
Switzerland (don't laugh, there is DEFINITELY at least one idiot
[person with a lot of ideas, obviously not a mentally
handicapped person.] out there who wants to...), so said person will
indeed find divine inspiration in this blog. Indeed, I will show you the glamorous life of a grad
student. It's all about the models and bottles. Quantitative models and klein bottles, that is. [The latter being well fit in my opinion, dat non-orientable surface.]
Anyway,
let me tell you a bit about myself so you can imagine what sort of
person I am (if you have pictured me as Jabba the Hutt with a coffee
stained shirt... Damn, you are pretty good). I am a graduate in
Mathematics from the UK and now I am doing a Masters in
Computational Science & Engineering (part of Maths) in
Zurich. My background was a mix of (discrete) pure maths and
mathematical physics, which might lead you to think, dear traveler of
the internets or interested scientist that switching to Numerical
Analysis is probably as odd as wearing pijama bottoms as a dress to a party (which I
have done in the past, actually). Aside from switching to another area
of mathematics, there was another change of area (obviously much less
interesting or controversial), which was changing from London to Zurich.
Before you ask, no, I can't speak any German. Ich spreche kein Deutsch.
[If you take anything from this post, it should be this sentence, my
friend, because it is going to save you a lot of awkward moments.]
Another sentence you must absolutely learn to ensure you fit in
well within the German community is: Ich missbrauche deine Hintern. It just means have a lovely day in the polite form of German. (1)
Anyhow,
this mesh is not going to assemble itself. Stay tuned for updates on
the wild life of a grad student living in a foreign country whilst
dealing with a severe case of hemorrhoids. Whoops. (1)
(1) No, actually it means "I sexually abuse your ass." So yea, don't do that.
(2) I am joking.
