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Okay, so i’ve spend half of my time i’ll be spending here. It’s time for a resume, at least a preliminary one.

I’ll focus on the school, the rest will come later.

So, yeah, Kaist. The comment best describing Kaist came fromour Korean Teacher, on our comment that we were having too much homework: ..

This is Kaist. There is a lot of Homework.

I’m taking three classes (with Korean Camp already done, it ended this week),

• Telecommunications Management and Policy
• Intro to AI
• Advanced Algorithmns
• Basic Korean

with totally different requirements. TelPol (the first one) is a very very Economics-related class, which i like. We’re having a test in it in 8 hours, but it’s the second of two, and i had a very good result in the frist one (98 of 150 points, but somewhere under the top 3-4 in the class). And homework wise, we’ve to do a 4-5 page paper every week, but it’s no real work (2-3h)

AI and Advanced Algorithmns are real computer science classes, with AI covering the basics of machine learning. There we’ve to do some real homework, 15-20h every two weeks, an implementation of a specific problem in the R language (fun stuff ;D). 70% of the total grade will come from this, w/ another ten from attendance/partitipation (totally normal here, i’ve that in every class) and the rest (a mere 20%) from the final exam. That actually is quite nice, as the actually subject resembles DS or similar. The class is fast paced, very interesting, but seriously hard. You have to know your matrices, your probability and your overall math well. I don’t. So the class is hard ;D. This is actually the only “big” class I have. there are over 60 people in the class, normal here is around 30. And it’s a very strange mixture between lecture and class, with the teacher asking every two slides if you understood it or not. Nobody really uses that, but still, it’s pretty different than what i’m used to

AA is similar, with a bit harder (as more math-sided and theoretical) and more weighted homework. AA is the only undergrad class I’m taking, anyways – which is weird, considering that i’m officially an undergrad here. and held by a german professor

The overall workload  is amazin – and the work the koreans do even more. i’ve pulled several all-nighters to finish my homework – but the koreans are much worse

We’ve just been studying at the “bachelor library” – a Stabi time 3, with hughe group-studying areas and everything. just amazing, seeing all these koreans in there small stalls studying. O yeah, midterms are a big thing for bachelors, but as i’ve only higher level classes, i don’t have midterms. And as alex is just arriving in dubai any minute, i’ll be enjoying my free week.

And yeah, i’m going to tokio, suckers! ;D