Day 13 - First Day of School

I slept in, but not too late because I needed to get to the leasing office between 10 and 11. I talked to the inspector and he gave me access to the fitness center by changing something in the computer system and I learned how to put money on my laundry account online. I then biked to the grocery store for eggs and asked Dang if he wanted any. He requested sunny side up, but I had to try a second time to get it right because the first time the yoke broke. Then we toasted some bread to put cheese and marmalade on (not together though). I met Zlatina as she was moving into Dang's room and gave a final goodbye to Dang. I packed for the day and headed off to DTU. Then I had to find building 450 and when I arrived I also noticed a strange alarm. No one seemed to be alarmed so I pretended not to notice it as I searched for the lecture hall. Matt and Maggie were near the front so I sat next to them. The professor gave a nice introduction and a better idea of course. During our break we discussed the brain computer interface project with Helge, the professor we'll be working with. We set up a meeting for the next Friday to discuss the project further. Helge described how he had recently been in an accident with a moped while he was biking and had broken some ribs. Fortunately he had a helmet and therefore no brain damage (I had already planned to get a helmet soon). Before we all left for our lab, Helge told us that he believed great things would come from us students. For the lab we needed to use a program called Matlab which all of us were familiar with. However, the activity required us to use a certain tool within Matlab, but all the groups ran into trouble when we got an error message that said "HARDLOCK!" and the best we could figure was that it was due to all the groups using the program at the same time. The only thing we could do was keep trying which the TA made explicitly clear on the chalk board. While we kept trying Maggie suggested watching a movie on Netflix, but we decided it needed to be a movie that was good enough without words because we didn't want to bother other groups. We decided Expendables 2 was pretty much the same action packed shooting and killing film without the audio so we started that. I pulled out some movie snacks, but eventually we gave up because we kept getting the hardlock error. I went to the bookstore to get some notebook paper and then ran into Christoph, one of the guys from my intro week group, in the kantine. I was able to bike  home with making any wrong turns this time. I found some surprise meat in my fridge space, but realized that Dang had given me the leftovers from last night. Another surprise for the evening came when I used vinegar to remove the calcium build up in the water boiler left for me and it worked. I also Skyped with my parents and wired together my salvaged speakers before deciding it was time to sleep.