university life at the IMEA Salut à tous et toutes,
since yesterday was a holiday in France (end of 1st World War) and today we have a long weekend, I finally have time to write here more often.
I do have a long weekend, but I must also make seehr much for the university. As for today, but I'm tired, I thought that I'll even a could be updated to IMEA.
I like it is definitely well on the IMEA, primarily because the level is not too high, is all quite relaxing.
Although we often all day lecture and a lecture takes an average of 3-4 hours, but as you know, I'm used to it by the BA and the IMEA defnitiv not compare with the BA.
is also very interactive style of the lecture and not like a dictation, as usual at French universities. Because normally you have to write down every word that says the Prof, as scripts does not exist. We use Power Point but all beautiful and give us the præsis:)! In addition, all professors have practical experience and have schonmal worked really, Mhmmm:)!
What I like really great, is the fact that not a week like the other. Since we have many visiting scholars from Spain and the UK, it is very diverse. If such a guest-Prof is there, we usually have it a whole week every day, then we no longer have this course. The good thing is that we are the tests for these lectures and thus can often prefer the exam week in February are slightly relieved. So this week I've
already written my first exam here in Managing Innovation, so in English. The exam was really easy and we Germans have learned the most, because it just our first exam was. I will do in the future but no more;) However, we were just so easy. The French felt before and after, that was the hardest exam they have ever written. Last year had failed because 5 people. HELLO?? You do have to say that normally flies at the IMEA no man by an examination, because this is a private university and yes mom and dad pay a lot for the university. Normally there is only As and Bs ..
said, the exam was in English and that bothers me at the IMEA actually the most. I knew that the course is bilingual. However, this does not mean that one has 50% English and 50% French lectures. In the first two Years, they have almost all French courses because they can not speak English so because they have not been abroad. The third year spent abroad and in every fourth year (my year), then about 75% of the lectures in English.
I went out of about 60%, but there are now even lecture in English, in it are in the curriculum than French.
On the one hand, it's great for us because the level is still low in the English lectures, as in the French and the exams are really easy for us. But we are here to learn French and I have me some more hope.
speak As already mentioned, the French constantly English with us, especially before, during and after the English lectures, which we have all the time.
And outside of the course we have little to do with the French. Slowly, it is quite stressful, so does every night during the week for what the university and go home at the weekend the French. Yes
Erasmus and we are only German, so we usually only speak German.
Well, can not be changed. My French has obviously been improved, but not as hoped.
Last week we had a lecture on International Trade and Financing. To this end, we sat the whole time on the PC and have worked with Excel. The only challenge was that the French Office version was. We had to create formulas and calculate values. Since it has understood better than that of the others has no practical experience. The simply having not checked. I'm no Excel freak, actually I hate Excel, but I was pretty much the only one to derive the hoooch complicated formulas themselves. Accordingly, the lecture was boring for me, we have always waited until the last come to the right result, but fortunately the PCs had Internet access;)
My worst course of all is English, which still has not changed;)
Leave In two weeks we are the first exam in early December I have a 20 min presentation hold and in February we have to write an essay in the exam with 500 words. I do not know 500 words.. (But English does not matter, the note gives me nothing and I can not fail also
is otherwise is to Christmas already quite busy We have to prepare many præsis keep in groups and and a lot of languages. . make this week was the first exam and then come to Christmas at least another second
But the stress is different, as at the FH. At the FH it's more panic stress, because you do not know how to learn everything, something etc., do not get it
The stress here is more likely therefore that we have to make so much at once and all in group work and I I can not choose the people with whom I can work effectively in a group. It is simply much at once, but not really challenging.
Yes and all the stress is still searching for an internship in France, which turns out also in a lot more difficult than expected. But to do more next time ..
Bisous
Madeleine