August 25th, 2007 by
Daniel ElstnerSo — I didn’t make it at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut. Apparently the worst applicant who was accepted had an overall score of 1.5. The worst. Dang. Well, I can live with that, as I had mixed feelings about the suits-styled and marketing-laden atmosphere anyway.
But I was accepted at the Freie Universität Berlin, and two days ago I handed in my enrolment application papers and paid the fee for the first term. I already met someone from my Abitur year while waiting in the line. Also a friend of mine, Gabriel, majors in mathematics at the FU. And I’ll be able to join Spline. 
On another note, my Internet connection at home is currently down. Versatel is messing up big time — it’s been dead for ten days now. Calls to my phone number end up at Café Reichert in Neukölln. It was funny for maybe the first two days but now I’m just pissed. As a consequence I decided to switch to cable internet provided by Kabel Deutschland. I’ll upgrade to 6000 kbit/s and actually pay a bit less for it, and since it’s cable it’s also independent of the Telekom suckers. And I’ll get a cheap cordless phone for free — which I’ll need since the phone I have right now is an ISDN one and the cable to phone adapter they provide only supports analog phones. They say it’ll take about three weeks to hook me up. Bah, this should be as simple as flipping a switch as far as the Internet connection is concerned. After all they already hooked up the whole building to their network just a couple of months ago.
Ah well. I now know first hand what Havoc meant about your computer turning into a brick without internet access. It’s really painful, and I’m not talking about the brick hitting your foot.
