Auf Wiedersehen Aachen!

Last night in my dormitory apartment. Flight back to Finland is on Wednesday morning. Half a year went like on wings. Time really is relative. My feelings are mixed; I love to get back to home and get on with my life, but also I will miss all the wonderfull people I have met here not to speak of the German culture and beer. I really have to get back on my excercise routine to loose all the extra souvieniers.

In the end, what have I experienced, is really one of the most memorable time of my life so far. Working in really high status laboratory in Werkzeugmaschinen labor has showed me totally different academic culture, since the laboratory has 750 employees and 5 professors and extremely good laboratory equipment and support staff. Also during my time here I have attended my first conference in Porto, Portugal. The FAIM13 was good opportunity to see what the manufacturing research is all about nowadays and also even better chance for networking. I see that energy efficiency is in high demand also in manufacturing research. Also my extracurricular activieties, like visiting 9 countries in 6 months have really opened up my eyes for cultural differences but also to the fact how well things are still in Finland. I really hope that we can keep up with the good work as University and as society, to preserve what have been already acomplished. It is easy to complain if one has not seen how things are elsewhere around the globe.

As I was quite old for my first exchange year, I can from the bottom of my heart say to those who think exchange studies are wast of time, that they most certainly are not. I remember once overhearing two students in student diner discussing how stupid it would be to go for exchange since it just drinking and fooling around and not really getting ones own studies further. I dont blame them for their views since the pressure of studing and graduating in time is high in Finnish Universities nowadays, but still, the things one can accomplishe while in exchange more than pays the extra year. And for real, who would not want an extra year in University?

Go for exchange, see the world and most of all, don’t submit to the man.

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