School is out

I'm over my first year at Helsinki University of Technology. I'm going to have to modify my behaviour with respect to classes conducted in Finnish - forgetting about them until the deadlines loom is not very healthy, or conducive to good grades. While it's a special challenge to try to cram an entire course over a weekend, it kind of misses the point - one of the perks of the college system here is the flexibility - I usually end up regretful that I didn't put more time in, since the subjects are interesting.

I've enjoyed exams that ask essay style questions that allow you to explain what you've learned. I've been prone to swallowing books whole, and then regurgitation the tasty bits to others (usually unsolicited) since I was very tiny, so having courses that follow that pattern, rather than demanding explanation via abstract maths, has me wondering if I'm in the right field. Of course, in engineering, being able to string a couple of words together grammatically is considered impressive - I guess if I was doing something more bookish I'd be tinkering with scripting languages wondering if I shouldn't be programming. The greener grass.

Summer is here

Hello hello, it's been a while. I have excuses - I've been travelling, I've had exams, but mostly tools that encourage microblogging, like Twitter, and lately Jaiku have been slowly draining away my blogging mojo.

I'm going to plug Jaiku - it can assimilate your twitter stream, Borg like, but has threaded conversations, supports anything with RSS, and... oh just give it a whirl if you're so inclined.