Tuesday, May 18, 2010 – 22:25
Laborführung – Guided tour through the laboratory. 56606 All students taking the Physik IV course (lecture shown in above photo) were offered to see the Physics laboratory where professor Wallraff and his colleagues are conducting their research. We began visiting the superconduction lab. At temperatures around 20 millikelvin, research is performed on superconducting circuits for [...]
Thursday, May 6, 2010 – 23:59
In April we threw a surprise party for Daniela (first photo), who turned 25. Later in the evning we went out in the dark to launch homemade hot air balloons into the sky. 56593 56581 56587 It was increadibly dark. The only light sources here were the balloons themselves and a faint streetlight quite far [...]
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 23:14
56574 This is where I’ve been spending the last year; Room 338 of Meierwiesenstrasse 62, Zürich, Switzerland. No luxury, but has everything I need. In todays lecture in Quantum Mechanics we discussed the Tunnel Effect and its applications. To demonstrate, the professor had brought a whole ST microscope (a device invented in Zürich, by the [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 – 23:52
Aargh, why did the inventor of the Swedish language have to pick the word “termin” to mean “semester” while “semester” in Swedish means “holiday”? It doesn’t make any sense and just opens the possibility for (albeit very funny) misunderstandings: (“The Swedish student cried out after his final exam before the summer break was finished: “Finally [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 – 00:23
Was watching some news from back home through SVT Play where the weather report commented on the weather in Europe. “Very intense rainfall, Switzerland got 60mm in the last 24 hours.” Yes, the very fine weather of last week has turned completely upside down. It’s Monday evening here, and except for a few hours today [...]
Monday, May 3, 2010 – 00:52
Du hann inte med spårvagnen och måste vänta HELA FEM MINUTER tills nästa kommer De offentliga toaletterna är renare än toan hemma. (Och där hemma är toan helt okej, trots att man bor i ett studenthus) Spätzli är det bästa som finns “Blå himmel! Vad har hänt?” Du av ekonomiska skäl har tvingats bli vegetarian [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – 22:49
54928 Four disused Be 4/6 “Mirage” trams from the sixties standing in the VBZ depot at Hard.
Sunday, April 4, 2010 – 00:02
Picture this: 52427 You are having a nice peaceful walk along the shore on a spring Saturday. The temperature is gentle and the soft breeze from the lake goes by, taking with it all the burdens you have been carrying from the past week. The swans glide past you as you see the passenger ship [...]
Saturday, February 27, 2010 – 14:05
Ok, the post title isn’t that fair, Li does actually live in Lausanne (which is in Switzerland). But she does speak French! Anyway, last week I had my final exams for this exam period, and I had the sudden freedom of having a week-long holiday. As it turned out, some of my currently-studying-in-french-speaking-contries classmates from [...]