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Postcard 08 December ‘24: Aarhus

I think it’s time to get back into the real Sunday postcards with some new and evolving sections 😊.

Grab a cosy drink.

Shall we?

About this week’s postcard

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Saturday in “Den gamle By” Aarhus :)

Living Danishly

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We are slowly settling into our new life in Denmark. One thing that I can already say is that working hours are different here. I know that the institute I work at is already in a “later shift” universe. However, most people come in between 8:00 and 09:00 and leave between 15:00 and 16:00. And yes, we all take lunch breaks together, and some even do a coffee break each morning.

And yes, work is getting done, meetings are being held, etc. Things work.

I usually get in shortly before 8:00, making me at least the earliest PhD student around 🤣. I aim for leaving at 16:00, but sometimes I am just too sucked into what I am doing, and then I miss getting ready for the tram. So I continue since the next comes half an hour later. And then here we go again. But I started setting the alarm to get ready to go 🤣

So even though I get up at 5:30 and aim for bedtime at 22:00, there is still quite some time left after work. But it is dark. And windy. And rainy. And pretty damn cosy once you are home.

Still, this week, we managed to go on a dinner date at a fancy food court in downtown Aarhus, and on Thursday night, I went to a hot yoga class! So cool, I will definetly do it more regularly.

On my ears

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Spotify 2024 statistics arrived this year. Apparently, the song I listened to the most this year was this one:

And my top 2 podcasts are The Huberman Lab and The Dr. Hyman Show 😅.

On my screen

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We started watching the Netflix documentary “Our Oceans” which is narrated by Barack Obama! I love how the episodes evolve around the journey of the global ocean currents and hence moving from region to region across all oceans. It’s a pretty cool idea.

Plenty of programming exercises as I started a MATLAB course. MATLAB is a programming language and platform for specialised engineering and scientific applications such as autonomous and electric vehicles, communication equipment, spacecrafts, storage systems, energy systems, medical systems. And it has unique signal and image processing features which makes it the primary programming tool for - underwater acoustics ;)

On my page

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I tried resuming the F1 love story novel I started reading during our Thailand vacation. I am so sorry for the author, but I feel I really don’t enjoy the repeated poor bad boy vibes in there anymore. Not sure if I am ever going to finish it 🤣

Things that made me smile, laugh, think, cry or curse this week

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Smile & laugh

• My supervisor and I discussed a bit more of a detailed plan for my PhD. And I am quite excited. Also, I started to understand a tiny fraction of the acoustical things we have to learn. Which makes me hopeful. Even though there is the high likelyhood that even though I think I understood something, I made not have understood anything. But … 😄

Think

• Why the hack does my brain struggle so much with understanding anything power and electrical things related. But also, WHY do we need so many different things like volt and voltage and ampere and watts and all those conversion formulas and …wtf?

Cry & curse

• I was really jumpy this week. One morning when I walked back into our office, I apparently one of my office mates had just arrived and was standing behind the door when I entered - thinking I was still the only one. As I heard her voice, I threw my phone across the room. Thanks Rhinoshield for making THE BEST cases! Then, yesterday evening, Sven had spied on me coming back from work as he was taking out the trash and suddenly jumped at me. I was decently pissed 😅

Up next

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Next week is THE week for Christmas activities at the university. Let’s see how much work is going to get done in proportion to the Gløgg being consumed 😜.

Hug,