Starting up in August

Spring 2008 was crazy for both of us. We had a full 30 ETCS semester with two courses and two term papers where we had full responsibility for course plan and reading list with no lecturer or professor. One of them was even an advanced study in "Semiotic Philosophy and IT". Next to that we took up the challenge to be instructors on the cand. merc. dat. course of "Philosophy and Sociology of science and methods". It all ended like a fairytale but we needed a loooong summer break to recharge the batteries.

Fortunately we had contact with Sudhanshu Rai in late June and were privileged to have him as a supervisor for our master thesis. The overall idea for the thesis was also discussed. July was a month totally off from studies and August was decided to be a slow starting month.

In August we have been meeting two or three times a week discussing all the details about the topic, making project appetizers, initial framing, context and discourse, and talking quite a lot about going to India and Bhutan :-)

Such a trip doesn't come along by itself so of course we have also spend a lot of time looking for funding. Sudhanshu and a former master thesis student on ITU, Eva, has been very helpful. No money has been raised yet but they will come. They have too!

An evolving ready list of articles, books and academic papers is also looking better and better. Currently more than 1500 pages in +50 articles are being processed.

This is where we are. We now have lift off! Don't worry. We have brought both oxygen and medical kits with us. Watch us fly high and low the next 6-7-8 months or what ever it will take us! :-)