Destination: Caltech 2009/2010

As you may or may not be aware of I’ve been planning to study a semester or two outside DIKU for quite some time now.

Last night I received the word:
I’ve been offered a full year exchange at Caltech in 2009/2010.

It was Morten who alerted me that the results were out, when he called to tell me that he’d been accepted to University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver and to ask if I’d received word yet.

Beyond the obvious excitement I was also quite surprised and a bit puzzled, because I had been told by our International Office that they were dead set on sending three students to Caltech for the autumn trimester rather than just one for a full year. I had to call them earlier today to verify that it wasn’t a mistake, mainly because there has been some hickups with my application and the prior recognition of courses.

So all day today I’ve been jumping around happily like a silly little boy.

It’s always nice to receive good news, but the feeling that the pieces of the puzzle are falling in to place is especially welcome at the moment, where I’m feeling a bit stressed out. I’m following two courses (Linear Algebra and Advanced Algoritms) this quarter, but on top of that I’m a teaching assistant on the Object Oriented Programming and Design (OOPD) first year course. I knew it would be tough and I’m still hanging in there… While I can’t say whether I’ll continue to hang in there or be forced to go to plan B (postponing Linear Algebra), there’s one thing I can say for sure: I won’t recommend it to anyone!