FRANCE | Tuesday, 8 Sep 2015 | Views [304]
After finishing the test, I did not want to sit down. So I just started walking, with the vague plan of going until I got tired, and then maybe catching a metro back from wherever I ended up. I got hungry first, and stopped for lunch at a crepe stand ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, dinner, french, internet
FRANCE | Monday, 7 Sep 2015 | Views [285]
One of the classes I’d registered for was French, so that needed to begin with a placement test. We were told to show up at precisely 9:00, and expect it to take about 3 hours. Because I can never get enough of French placement tests (why else ... Read more >
Tags: cultural differences, french, registration, tests
FRANCE | Sunday, 6 Sep 2015 | Views [372]
There weren’t any morning activities scheduled on Thursday, so I slept in, walked around Paris for a while, and finally worked my way back to the university around two. This had given them enough time to respond to my e-mail, first to forward ... Read more >
Tags: art, course registration, french
FRANCE | Friday, 4 Sep 2015 | Views [393]
Tuesday we met for a walking tour of part of Marais. “Marais” being French for “when I was a kid, the entire city used to a swamp, and we had to go to the Latin quarter just to be on solid ground.” It was led by Guillaume, an ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, class registration, tour, transport
FRANCE | Wednesday, 2 Sep 2015 | Views [1017]
On Monday, I woke up in my own apartment. Although waking up anywhere else would have been rather disturbing, it still felt like a surprising thing to do. I did not need to worry about Ruby already being in the shower, or tripping over Clara's bags ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, cheese, groceries
FRANCE | Tuesday, 1 Sep 2015 | Views [365]
The last apartment that I needed to look at was in the twelfth arrondissement. It was another one of those places where taking public transportation was nearly as slow as walking (about half an hour). And, given it was supposed to be a nice day, (a ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, home
FRANCE | Tuesday, 1 Sep 2015 | Views [324]
Saturday we had nothing to do until 17:00, when we were meeting at a cinema to watch Dheepan. Which gave us most of a day to ourselves.
I woke up around 10, looked up a couple of destinations, and set off for Shakespeare and Company. It was ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, books, film
FRANCE | Sunday, 30 Aug 2015 | Views [338]
A crash course in the names that the school I'll be spending next semester at:
The full name is Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. When it's abbreviated, this gives rise to the rather logical UPMC.
Depending on the context, the Sorbonne ... Read more >
Tags: apartments, dessert, university, upmc
FRANCE | Saturday, 29 Aug 2015 | Views [341]
Thursday began with police from the eleventh arrondissement coming in to talk to us. Three of them showed up- two actual police officers and one volunteer. (A couple of years ago, to improve their public perception, the police started accepting volunteers.... Read more >
Tags: apartements, police, rain
FRANCE | Friday, 28 Aug 2015 | Views [288]
Wednesday began with a "practical meeting" scheduled for two hours. This one was an actual case of over scheduling, since we were done with the meeting in under an hour. But it gave Erin time to explain things about our cultural outings, (opera, dance, ... Read more >
Tags: appartment, metro, montmartre, montparnasse, stairs, walking
FRANCE | Thursday, 27 Aug 2015 | Views [432]
he day began with a quick breakfast from the nearest boulangerie (perk of being in Paris) and a two hour description of French higher education. Mainly focusing on universities, especially the ones we'd be studying at. It was a mixture of practical ... Read more >
Tags: apartment, classes, metro, transportation, universities
FRANCE | Wednesday, 26 Aug 2015 | Views [371]
There are several cities where, the night before I leave, I stare out a window and make a promise to myself and to the city that I'll be back. Paris is not one of those cities. Rather, it's one of the cities that it seems like I keep returning to. It's ... Read more >
Tags: french, housing, japanese, music
FRANCE | Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015 | Views [434]
When I got to the hotel, the concierge told me that, although my room wasn't ready, other people's room in the programme had clean rooms. Good for them? And I could either leave my suitcase there, or have the concierge call their room while I waited ... Read more >
Tags: exploring, food, introductions
IRELAND | Monday, 24 Aug 2015 | Views [465] | Comments [1]
I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing next semester. I've not even entirely finished applying for the programme I want to go on, let alone been accepted. At the time I was buying a ticket, I hadn't even started applying. Besides, given what I ... Read more >
Tags: aeroplane, business class, departures, flights
USA | Saturday, 22 Aug 2015 | Views [277]
It seems like every trip I take comes with its own set of challenges and concerns. As the departure day draws nearer, those start to seem more important, or even insurmountable. Until it's almost time to go, and there's a large part of me that wants ... Read more >
Tags: goodbyes, pre-departure
USA | Tuesday, 18 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
Semester Abroad in Paris
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USA | Tuesday, 18 Aug 2015 | Views [320]
One of the most fun parts of studying abroad for an entire semester is when, before you leave, you need to apply for a student visa. In fact, in my semester abroad experinence, it is ranked about third- somewhere between applying for the program and ... Read more >
Tags: forms, letters, visa, waiting
USA | Wednesday, 29 Jul 2015 | Views [359]
At the beginning of the blog, I gave the schedule and admitted that I had no idea what the last four weeks would look like, but could only assume it was all research all the time. Then I got through the first three weeks and stopped updating the blog.... Read more >
Tags: dgvf, endings, games, homology, math, programming
USA | Tuesday, 30 Jun 2015 | Views [445]
On Friday night, we took advantage of our new key priviliges to go into the guy's dorm without waiting outside for someone to let us in. Since I'd been the one to ask Dr. Aktar, he'd e-mailed me (and no one else) to tell us that it should work now, so ... Read more >
Tags: dresses, math, movies, walk
USA | Monday, 29 Jun 2015 | Views [403]
Thursday was the last day of the algebra short course. We finished up our cursury discussion of category theory with a couple of examples and theorems, and Dr. Aktar asked if we had any other questions. Angelo wanted to hear more about tensor products ... Read more >
Tags: analysis, dgvf, keys, math, set theory
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