My alma mater

[mothwing]

I found a video (in German) on my uni. I love how they whine about the quality of the buildings in this video when there are things that make this uni much worse. Admittedly, the mould is quite disconcerting and the Anthropology course I once had in a smelly, damp room in an old basement with dark, wet spots on the walls where the plumbing was getting old was not much fun, but I'd have still gone with the course sizes (very large) and the course organisation (90min of bad student lectures, mostly).

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[mariebernadette.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness. Makes me feel a little guilty for having state of the art facilities for a 3rd rate education.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Don't worry - not all rooms are as bad, but it is strange that they use funds to build two entirely new wings instead of doing necessary repairs in the buildings we do have.

I wonder at the state of things in the main building, especially, the home of, as we were told in Psych, "one of the most modern lecture halls in Germany", as well as loads of lecture halls which have not been repaired since the seventies. Once we had a change of rooms in a Didactics class and when we came in our (now retired!!) Didactics professors looked around, puzzled for a moment, then walked up to a seat in the fourth row, checked under the desk of the fifth seat, going, "Thought so," when he had found the doodles he had done on the desk when he was a student were still there.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

OMG /o\ Am I happy that we don't have any mould in our lecture halls, we only have too many people crammed in and some horribly presented content to bear. It's weird how long it takes to fix any of these things, though, isn't it? Had the administration reacted when the first spots of mould appeared, the costs would've been way less and the repair works quite short in duration. But that would've been common sense.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Yeah, especially seeing as we now have shiny new wings next to the main buildings and the Anthropology building... well. Does not look that good. Probably separate budgets for repairs and building, though.

The number of students we get in classes is insane, that's true. It's so cute when Crocky complains about student numbers in Hannover, though ("I couldn't believe how full that class was! So full that some people had to sit in the second row!!").

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Probably separate budgets for repairs and building, though. There are. Stupid bureaucracy prevents them from shifting the money to where it's needed. The new wings next to the ESA were a donation, though.

Her complaints really are cute ^^ The worst class I've ever seen was one where people were standing out in the hall, trying to follow the lecture inside through the open door.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Thought there might be, it works the same way with schools. As for the wings - I thought that they were only partly donated, not that it matters, with the budgets.

Yeah, my worst class in Anglistics was Insa Gülzow's Language Acquisition seminar, with people sitting in front of the blackboard and standing around in the corridor, or Politics I taught in A, crammed full, but the worst one ever was Erziehung im Nationalsozialismus, where over two-hundred people showed up - we had one person standing in the door and another in the corridor who called out what the teacher said to the other students, it was insane.