Start of term @ TU Brunswick

Getting up early in the morning wasn't that hard anymore, somehow I got accustomed to it over the last two weeks. I drove to the train station and immediately found a nice and legal parking lot, which is a rare thing at that hour. Since nothing interesting ever happens on these train rides, I took a little nap to catch up with some sleep.
Thanks to the Deutsche Bahn I was about ten minutes late. So i headed to the mainbuilding and inside I followed the signs leading me to my destined lecture hall where a math lecture should be held. After entering the room and looking for a free place to sit, wondering where some familiar faces would be, I was given two sheets of paper. I seated myself and looked at them. To my surprise they looked like a test, so I entered my name and stuff and startet looking at the math problems. At this point I was beginning to wonder if I was in the wrong room and had stumbled into a test for advanced students. I read the first problem and thought, "well, that doesn't look too difficult", but I quickly saw that you had to solve some quadratic equation with complex figures. I moved to the next problems, two of them dealt with very complicated matrices and transformation of vectors, then there was some other problem and two very complicated integrals. In other words, the whole thing was just horrible. After some minutes and writing down formulas I guessed out of the air, I was literally finished and left the room.
Outside I was greeted by some guy who informed me that the whole test was a hoax planned by student representatives. I must admit that everything looked very convincing. Some people must have been very sad after they learned they wasted 30 minutes solving nearly unsolvable math problems for nothing. After everyone had calmed down, the student representatives told us about what they do and what they had achieved in the last years. After that the dean held a little speech, whose content was of the same nature as that of what the students had told us earlier.
Afer their introduction we went to a place called "Grotrian", which looks like an old industrial building and lies some 100 meters away. There we had breakfast with free buns, coffee, orange juice and stuff to put on the buns. I got to know two fellow electrical engineering students. After around an hour or two we were split into groups according to our study course.
We then went in groups of ten with two tutors out to do a little campus rallye. Nobody knew why it was called that, because there where neither checkpoints with quests nor a price to win. We were shown the important buildings and our tutors gave some general advice concerning the study.
At 13 o'clock we arrived at the barbecue spot where the other turors where just building up the fire place and seating-accommodations.
When everything was ready it started to rain, so some students, including me, went inside and waited for the sousages to be ready. There I met Christian, an old acquaintance I met through deudodideudeu on some LAN-parties. In his company was Paula, a quite talkative girl who couldn't get enough of those sausages with remolade. She must have been very hungry to eat that. ;) After having talked with them and some other guys whose names don't matter, Jan and I headed to his place, where I helped him with a little linux-related problem. After having solved it rather successfully we drove back to the university together with Daniel to attend the official welcoming by the president.
The student orchestra played a song which reminded me somehow of a movie theme, but I couldn't make out which one. Then the president held a little speech. Following him was the head of AstA who also held a little speech. Although his sounded more like what a priest would have told us, as though it was sunday and we were sitting in a church. He even talked just like some priest, slowly and calmly. After the band had played another familiar sounding song, some guy who did a really cool little commercial for the architecture study course was given a first prize. After seeing the short movie it became more clear to me, why the student number in that course had doubled this year. Then the ten best students and the best foreign student were given prizes. At the end of the event the band played two songs, with one of them being quite annoying folk music. I headed out in the rain to get to the bus and catch my train home.