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[agnoster]

I've done some math. My courseload is 30 LP, or "Leistungspunkte" (Achievement Points?), each LP is estimated to be 30 hours of work. The semester is about 13 weeks. 900 hours over 13 weeks comes to about 70 hours a week, plus my 80hr/mo job (19ish hours a week)... my schedule's gonna be pretty packed. I've been more on less on vacation for

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[heatrose]

hm, are you really happy with what obama's been doing? i was hoping he'd be considerably stronger in this health care mess.

on another note though, the US and germany dont allow dual citizenship?

on another another note, when does yr program start, and what is it in, and why are you doing it, and all those other quarter-life-crisis-questions?! i am in paris-- we should try to meet up somehow, eventually!

[agnoster]

I think blaming Obama for the "health care mess" is like blaming the teacher when kids are annoying little shits. The parents (aka the electorate) have been bad at raising their kids (aka congress) and now we're expecting Obama to magically turn them into conscientious, caring members of society who don't pick their noses and eat their boogers.

The US doesn't officially recognize dual citizenship, but doesn't have any laws forbidding it. Germany, on the other hand, does, so I have to give up any other citizenships I hold when I get my German citizenship.

My program starts next week, officially. It's Masters in CS (or Informatik as the Germans call it), with a specialization in Intelligent Systems (AI, basically). And Paris is not so far away! How long are you gonna be there? Are you going to have time to travel to other european cities? You should get a Eurail pass or something and see the continent before you leave! Berlin being a big part of that ;-)

[heatrose]

hm, well, to use the same metaphor, i'd say its more that there are vast disparities between parents (aka socioeconomic classes), and there are certain very powerful congealed masses that have managed to acquire more parental power than most of the parents themselves (corporations)... and there is a system that encourages this to happen (modern american capitalism

[ryochiji]

I wonder how sticky the renouncement is... Something tells me that if you ever applied for a US passport again, they'll just give it to you.

Also, I'd like to see the face of the Marine guards when you tell them you're there to renounce your citizenship.

But yeah, I'm kinda dreading going back to work. I'm not sure I could actually sit in a cube for 8 hours a day 5 days a week, 50-ish weeks a year, for how ever many years I... ok. This is getting depressing already.

[annabananaface]

These are very exciting things :). I'm especially excited that you are going back to school, because school is fun. That is why I intend never to leave. It is hard to come back from vacation, but good to get going again, too. Let me know how it goes, and good luck!