Course selection

I'm here as an exchange student so I guess I have to study too... :)

I actually spent quite a lot of time to choose my courses and making up a back up plan in the case I couldn't get a permission to take two classes that didn't show up on my HKU Portal account. HKU Portal is the webpage you use to add and drop courses, where you get your bills (for example my hall rent, will come to that later) and do everything related to the university. And they are also using Moodle (as Aalto University is using), though it seems to be a new thing here.

Multitasking Portal.

The first two weeks of the semester are the "Add&Drop period" in which you can add and drop courses. After the two weeks, you can't make any changes. Full time students had already chosen their courses during the first semester, but for all new students (full time and exchange) the period started on Monday 21st.

I had spent some time and send many emails to actually get some courses I wanted and finally by the end of the first week those were added to my course list. :) I actually noticed after the first week that I'm taking kind of mathematical courses in Asia... You know what people say about Asian people and calculating... :P Luckily both of my electrical engineering classes are under 20 people classes to teachers don't have to follow the normal distribution. So A's for everyone, right? :)

So currently I'm taking these classes:

CHIN9511 - Cantonese as a foreign language
ELEC3111 - Electric railway systems
ELEC3112 - Power system protection and switchgear
MECH3009 - Energy conversion systems

I will talk about these courses later in the spring, but I hope that I didn't choose ones that are too difficult. Below you can see my timetable.

I don't have any classes on Wednesdays.

I'm actually pretty happy about the timetable as it doesn't have any evening lectures as some students have (classes ending even at 20:30). And as you can see 9:30 is my earliest lecture and actually those are the morning lectures. At least I haven't seen any lectures starting before that. I guess normal lunch time is around 1pm-2pm.