The weather outside...

Oh the weather outside is frightful

And a fire would be delightful

And yes I've got places to go

But there's snow

But there's snow

But there's snow

Snö!

The snow has arrived! I had a three day physics lab starting on Wednesday (same day the snow started) so I haven't had the chance to enjoy it, or blog.

Many people still bike everywhere. I've switched to walking. My walk back from class on Friday (it wasn't much lighter when I walked to class.)



And a daytime picture.



Currently it's -8C outside, feeling like -12C. On Monday it's supposed to feel like -16C. I learned while walking to class that I need warmer clothing. The sun also rises at around 8:30am and sets at 3pm. So I didn't get to see the sun the last three days because of class.

A few words about physics labs. I think we should use the same system at UVic. On the one hand, you spend three days (8:15am-5pm) in a lab which is a really long time, but, you can take breaks whenever you want, you have enough time to finish the lab (left an hour and a half early), and don't do a formal lab report. Before the lab we had to do some preparatory exercises and hand them in. If we got any of them wrong we were handed them back and we redid the incorrect questions until we got them all right. During the actual lab, we would call one of the lab assistants over after we had completed a section and walk through the questions with them. We had to write down are answers to the questions. Mine look like this.



Again, if we had something wrong they would help us get the answer. And we were allowed to ask questions during the lab. My partner and I asked lots of questions. Basically, you couldn't fail. It's going to be hard to go back to UVic labs.

Anyway, that's all for now. I will right about Helsinki, I just need to do two projects and an assignment first.