3rd bencher activated!

Some of you might know that I will be restarting my student life again – I had my first class today!

I am also writing about how I managed to land an admit at FAU Erlangen. You should find the link somewhere here. I am pretty unorganized right now. The work is still in progress. In fact, this blog started as a recipe book for myself and now we have this what you are reading.

But I digress. So, coming back, I had my first official meeting with the batch. The Semester starts in October. Today, was an information session to ease the onboarding.

It was conducted by the course coordinator. The meeting was 1.5 hr long. It covered topics that would take me from here to the door steps of the University. Everything from local transport details, tickets, student’s pass to finding accomodation was covered. It was impressive to experience German eye for detail.

It felt nice to be back with the students. I have a feeling I am the eldest of all. But I could still feel my inner 3rd bencher getting activated.

As a rule of 3rd bencher, I am not the one who initiates questions. Those are the jobs of the first bencher, the annoying ones. As a 3rd bencher my job is to cover all those questions that are thrown at us.

To give an example what I mean. If someone asks “Am I audible” I give 3 secs pause. Give the first benchers their chance. And then I kick in. I answer “Yes”. I hope you get the gist.

Meeting the batch virtually on the online meet gave me the thrill of starting a new phase of life. There were 22 students in the batch. I hear some may not enroll. So our final batch strength might drop to 17 to 20.

The meeting had the same energy of a new whatsapp group. It might die down with time. We could hear some fellow students who spoke. Ofcourse, I spoke too. I told them I can hear her.

Takeaways from the meetings were:

Finding Accomodation is going to be a nightmare
The course is going to be challenging.

I have decided to choose accomodation as my next topic to loose my sleep over.

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