PhD life in Lucca

Monday, June 30, 2008

To and From Torre Guinigi

Whenever I go to the Italian classes, I am disappointed, angry, aggressive...

Trying to think about some positive things, I just looked at my pictures in Italy and decided to put some nice pictures here. Just for having a little break between PhD issues...

Friday, June 27, 2008

dura lex, sed lex

ANNOUNCEMENT:
[...] you won’t be allowed to use your classroom when you have no lesson.
All classrooms will be locked at the end of each lesson, so you will have the possibility to study only in the school library.
I’m sorry, but these are the rules.

...what to say? Maybe it's a way to tell us we need to study a little bit less?

Given that "our rights" are a monotonically decreasing function I have already prepared countermeasures for when the next ANNOUNCEMENT arrives; you can all just come and study at my place (obviously ONLY if you have your badge, and ONLY between 10:26 and 12:14!!!)

Who knows, maybe they'll even ask for our fingerprints next time!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

better give this exam soon!

help

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

A long-long day full of lectures.

This is an overview of today's fatal classes from the last raw.
Everyone was suffering (I think) in his / her own way. Guido was upset because of some strange, complicated shape of graphs, Michele was trying to improve his abilities as a painter, Ales B. was in another orbit with some another exam, Binh suffered because of some paper (maybe Dini's presentation), Ales C. couldn't fix the correct height of his chair and periodically changed it, Sonia was scared reading Dini's slides, Farshad was looking outside of the window, Nicholas was preparing some ppt file, Lusine was refreshing browser intensively and Maddalena was with her stato esame.
That's all...

Software enginnering

This morning I will not write a long post, because during my "break" I am working to a project for an exam. Maybe this afternoon...

Anyway, look what I found somewhere on the web:

"If you are a plumber, you will fix your own leaking faucet; if you are a mechanic, you will change your own oil; if you are a doctor, you will give yourself some nice prescription; if you are a lawyer, you will sue your neighbor's pants off; if you are a teacher, you will teach your children; if you are a software engineer, you will..."

Of course it does not refer to any course we are attending.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Approaching an exam

I promised you to write a post during "a short break", so...here it is my first post in our blog.

As you probably know, in these days my sister is doing the high-school final test. She sent me an e-mail that explains what a student does during (and before) this important period.

I hope you like it, I laugh every time I watch it.

Let's start:

First week of lessons