Bah, I feel for you. Now that I've graduated it seems a strange thing that I'll never have to put up again with the extremely unfriendly folks at the office for intermediate and graduation exams. O.O I never really figured out why the hell they always were so damned bitchy with a working schedule from 8 to 12 and real work to do only when it was application time for exams (which is twice a year).
But it even continues even now that I'm finished. There I was, happily waiting to finally get my hands on my shiny certificate and all I got was a flimsy sheet of paper saying I'd passed and telling me that "due to administrative efforts etc. etc." it might take some time until I got the real thing (I know from a friend that it took half a year until she got send hers!). Really, I fancy one day getting my doctor's degree, but all the administrative bullsh*t that will be connected to that manages to scare me away from that ambition.
I find it interesting though, that your university supplies you with books. I always had to buy them myself or rent them from the library... but that may only be because studying in Germany is - even with the new fees - practically for free compared to the US.
But anyway, don't let them irritate you too much; enjoy your studies! :) (I did for sure... I still can't believe it's already over).
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Date: 2008-08-01 06:33 pm (UTC)But it even continues even now that I'm finished. There I was, happily waiting to finally get my hands on my shiny certificate and all I got was a flimsy sheet of paper saying I'd passed and telling me that "due to administrative efforts etc. etc." it might take some time until I got the real thing (I know from a friend that it took half a year until she got send hers!). Really, I fancy one day getting my doctor's degree, but all the administrative bullsh*t that will be connected to that manages to scare me away from that ambition.
I find it interesting though, that your university supplies you with books. I always had to buy them myself or rent them from the library... but that may only be because studying in Germany is - even with the new fees - practically for free compared to the US.
But anyway, don't let them irritate you too much; enjoy your studies! :) (I did for sure... I still can't believe it's already over).