Diary of a World Traveler: Day 16 - Waiting for tomorrow

Today was normal. There's really no other way to explain it. I woke up at a decent time and got ready before heading for school. I had another history of medicine class, this time about how early Christians and the Arabic physicians contributed to our knowledge of medicine. It was interesting to see how medicine went from religious (in the early Greek/Roman era) to secular (late Greek/Roman eras) to religious again (early Christianity period) and what that did for medicine and the societies that went along with those eras. Also, we apparently owe the Middle Eastern society a HUGE debt when it comes to medicine because most of our knowledge on ancient medicine as well as the findings of all those people would have been lost without them. They translated all these great medical works into Arabic and when every other book was destroyed for one reason or another, these translations were translated back into Latin and therefore preserved for later physicians. Just think: without these translations, a lot of the early knowledge that allowed for modern medicine to build on top of it and become what it is today would have been lost otherwise and we as a species would have had to start over in figuring out how to fix ourselves when we became sick. I think it's pretty cool.

Anyway, after that was design class with Sarah as we delved more into what our imaginary company was going to do to get a continuous glucose monitor on the market. We looked into the schematics of the existing devices out there already (only a handful, like less than a half dozen) and the various data that's come from testing out these devices. We also finally named our company (Zucker Kontrol systems...or ZK systems) so we can hopefully begin making a name for ourselves with our awesome product...figuratively speaking of course as we don't actually have a company or a device to sell to the public. When design was done, it was time for lunch. I was going to go to the cafeteria in Bonn University because I heard it was pretty cool, but was left behind because everyone else was in a hurry to leave and I needed to do something else for a few minutes. Unfortunately I was left behind, but that's OK. I hung out with the people who stuck around and had a wonderful sandwich made of salami, ham, and cheese on bread, most of which was left behind after our German breakfast on Friday.

After lunch was another signals and systems class. I swear, we seem to have something to do with that class every day. On Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, we have the actual class while the rest of the days we have to work on the homework that's assigned on each of those days. There's also a test that's coming up on this class on Friday, so I don't think that anything more than studying will be happening until that test happens. And of course we're probably going to celebrate once it's over, so I guess there's something to look forward to. Today was (mercifully) something that I knew fairly well, so hopefully the homework will come easy to me.

After class, most of us hunkered down and started on the homework for (surprise) signals. We want to get our homework done by Thursday's review so we can study and not have to worry about homework while stressing about our test. And...that's about it. I went home and had dinner with my family. I never knew that you could dress a simple piece of bread with so many different toppings and still have it be just bread and not a sandwich. Oh! and they made me Frickadella and it was absolutely delicious!!

Tomorrow we go to Cologne for a tour and to climb the church there. It used to be the tallest structure in the world until the Washington monument was built...and we're climbing all the way to the top! Yes, I will be taking lots of pictures, so be prepared for tomorrow. Unfortunately, because today was so normal, I don't have any relevant pictures, so I'm just going to look though my camera history and select some cool photos because I like how pretty they are and no post seems complete without them.