Fig. 4 Study with me!

Fig. 4 Study with me! Grüezi mitenand! Thought Id give you all a quick update on how life is  6014 km away from the Tvte. Time flies (seriously), and Im already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the last week of lectures here at ETH Zürich. But, the semester technically doesnt wrap up until the 31st of August. Youre probably thinking, what? Ich auch. There are two main exam periods at ETH: the End-of-Semester and the Session Examination block. Most courses have exams during the Session Examination block that falls throughout the month of August, offering students the luxury of having the entire summer to revise and giving the school enough flexibility to schedule everyones exams so that none will conflict. That is a far cry from the reading period of one day we get at MIT. However, that means that students at ETH dont necessarily get a summer break or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI, or UROPs. For the 6 courses Im taking this semester, I have 1 End-of-Semester exam Im taking the day before I fly home, and 2 session exams in mid-August. 2 of my courses are project-based. For those 2 classes, my project groups just finished our presentations this week. We still need to write final papers due in mid-June to count for the majority of our marks. For my German course, we had our final exam last week. As an exchange student, I was able to request to take my 2 session exams as distance examinations. Throughout the summer, Ill be interning in the US, and wont be able to fly back to take the exams. Other MIT exchanges have arranged preponements, a fancy term for moving the exams to an earlier date. Preponements usually only work for oral exams, but I (fortunately or unfortunately?) didnt have any of those. That means, though, with 2 papers still to write and 2 exams still in August, Ill have to spend my summer continuing to work and study. The term hasnt quite ended yet! To give you guys a quick look at what a day in my life looks like here in Switzerland, I thought itd be fun to put together a study vlog captured during a recent weekend, here: Enjoy! (I also have over 130GB worth of photos from this year alone, so look out for many more picture-heavy posts to come!)