DKIT

The Dundalk Institute of Technology.
I remeber my first day at the DKIT. I got lost and could hardly find my way back to the main entrance. It is almost 4months ago and it is hard to remember what else was difficult for me. Oh, yes I do remember: To find a timetable!
The system in DKIT is completly different to the system in my home college. In the end of every semester we get a big book with all classes, which will be offered in the next semester. Then I start to go over it and pick the classes, which fit to my main and minor subjects and which I think could be interesting for me. At DKIT you normally don´t have a choise. You stay all the time with the same people in one class and you get your timetable for your study at the first day the college starts.
So I tried to get a few timetables, to find subjects which fit to my study in Germany or which could be interesting for me to study. By accident we got to konw, that the most timetables are available in the internet. Some weren´t, but in the end of the first week of the semester I think I had all and had big fun to create my own timetable. There were many clashes but at least I had one. And how the irish would say: It was not to bad! :)

Something I really miss in the classes at DKIT are discussions. In Germany we mostly have to prepare a class in reading a few pages and then you discuss them in the class. At DKIT the lecturer stands in front of the class and addresses the students from there.
What I like in the DKIT classes is the combination of lecture and tutorials. But maybe the tutorials could focus more on the opions the students have to get them thinking about the topics on their own.