Doctor? Doctor.

I’m watching Suits. It’s a show about lawyers. I have an exam about the status quo of the legal framework for digital letters of employment next week. So in a way I’m studying, right? Right.

Anyway, after catching the latest episode I went on youtube to find some videos of the show for you guys. I found some pretty great ones. And then I found this:

It’s hilarious.

My beloved Supernatural did a spoof the whole “Doctor”-thing as well:

And because I mentioned Supernatural, I give you a hunky Jensen Ackles.

Yes. This post really didn't have much purpose. 

All I Want to do is Sleep

I always crash after an exam. The adrenaline that kept me going for the final push has disappeared and I’m left feeling like I haven’t slept for years.

Cue coffee-drinking.

Anyway. Next up is a lot of coffee and some prep-work I have to do for the report I’ll be writing in July. And then I have to read up on a report I wrote this May. I have an exam on it next week.

This is boring. My life right now is boring. It’s all exams and work and studying.

But there will be some fun times to be had this summer as well.

Have I mentioned that I’m going to Roskilde Festival next week? Beer, rain, music and the most awesome people. I’m looking forward to it. The paper I'm going to write this July is about the festival and the tools used to ochestrate the work-schedule of the 20.000 volunteers. So I'll get to interview a bunch of volunteers and hopefully learn something new.

This is Roskilde Festival, opening night in 2011.
Hopefully this year will feature a little less rain than the last time I was there.

The observant reader might have noticed something: My exam and the festival are in the same week.

Yes. Yes indeed they are. Even though all exams for this semester were supposed to be done by June 30th, the kind people at my school wanted to sprinkle my vacation with som extra fun.

Thank you, ITU. I've always felt that the one thing vacations lacked was exams and studying. And you've rectified that horrible mistake.

To end this post on a good note: I am so happy that Suits is back on the air. How can you not dig a drama-show about lawyers that is litered with pop-references from Star Wars, The Godfather and Highlander? 

 

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Warning: This Post Contains Anger

I fucking hate incompetent people.

How freaking hard can it be to look at an application, determine that I’m a e-buss student and forward it to the right person? It has to take you FIVE FUCKING weeks? Not to mention you wouldn’t even have done that, if I hadn’t sent an inquiry regarding the status of my application. It was supposed to have been approved by now. 

There is a special place in hell reserved for incompetent people, where they are only exposed to other equally incompetent miserable excuses for human beings.

Woooooosaaaaa.

Woooooosaaaaa…

I feel better now. It helped to get that off my chest.

(this post is quite possibly going to be deleted very soon, when I realize that I’m not a person that actually hate other people)

Just give me the money

Why does it have to be so hard every step of the way?

When I started applying for a University in the US I foolishly thought that getting all those documents together (motivational application, recommendations from teachers, certified originals of gradesheets) would be the hard part. That once I was accepted, it would be all champagne and strawberries from there.

Well. It’s not.

Right now I’m writing applications for scholarships and it is downright hard. Asking complete strangers for money is not easy. Especially when you really want the money. What can you say that will make them give you the money? What magical phrase will unlock their treasures?

I don’t deserve their money. I don’t even really need it. My parents will front me the cash I need. In the end it’s just a question of how much money I’ll end up owing them.
So how do you craft an application that represents you as someone who is worthy of strangers’ money?

I’m on complete rewrite number 4 right now, and have the angle of being honest. The application contains no BS about ‘enriching my academic profile’ or ‘bringing competitive advantage back to Denmark’. Instead I simply state that I think I will grow as a person as a consequence of going to the states for 5 months. And that this personal growth is the reason for why I’m going.

It’s the truth. And I do believe that honesty is the best policy.

Whether it will result in me getting any cash is another question.

I will let you know. I mean, this could even turn out to be a study of whether or not honesty in an application really is the best policy or not.