I wanna Quiz you!

Every tuesday Edgar Café at Samfundet gets crowded around six p.m. I arrived around 6.30 but already you couldn`t find one free seat!

Students arrange a Quiz at Edgar Café at 07.00 tuesdays, where people can win free dinners. You and some friends form a team with maximum four people. Then you pick a name for the team where you have a chance to get creative. Of the six categories, which consists og ten questions, you can choose a category that you think you know best and go all or nothing on that category and maybe get double the usual score on each question. But, if you get a wrong answer in your "all or nothing"-category you loose a point. Even if you don`t answer it.

The categories were Tv-shows, Sports, Miscellaneous, The bible, Morgan Freeman and last but not least, USA. Difficult categories perhaps but during Quiz-shows like this you sometimes surprise yourself of what you know of topics regarding common knowledge. The A-team, which was my team with Peter from Germany scored a total of 52 points.
I belive we ended up far, far down at the rankings. The competitions was tough. Tougher than both me and Peter had foreseen. We scored 52 points whilst the top three teams scored a total of over 300 points together! But we figured that since me and him scored 52 points and the winning team had four people and scored 113 points, we would have maybe won if we just had two people more on our group!

The team that won with a personal best or the team`s best score in the competition so far with 113 points, "Quiz My Black Ass" (see picture below) received seven free meals each! Congratulations from me and Dragvollportalen to you guys.

See own link in norwegian at

dragvollportalen.no

Combination of technology and art

Is that a Soda up your sleeve? Focusing on technology and art together Generator X is touring Norway at this moment so if you are in Aalesund any time from the first of april as of this Saturday until may the 14th you can experience technology and art together.

Here is an article focusing on the art of software programming. Why is this so hard to master? Is software development a craft or is it an engineering dicipline? In this article the author makes you aware of many similarities between writing code and writing a novel!

"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures."

-Fred Brooks some 30 years ago

Student-chat answers YOUR question NOW

Do you have any questions what so ever on studies in Trondheim you can now join a brand new chat that opened 22nd of march, a pilotproject from Studeibyen.

Studiebyen is an organization that promotes studying in Trondheim and helps out new students coming to Trondheim for their first time. On this particular channel experienced students from HiST and NTNU in particular will be acting as operators answering your questions and will try their best to give you some guidance or help on any subjects covering anything that has something to do with studying in Trondheim.

Press the image and you can join the channel immediately and get answers right away.

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Things circulating

I just came back after a short trip to Oslo, the capital here in Norway, photographing a band called True Confession. They were invited to join the Emergenza-festival, the biggest music festival in the world for unsigned bands. Congratulations to True Confession, which through votes by the audience at the concert came through and advanced to the semi-finals which will be held at John Dee in Oslo some time in may. Read more here.

Concert-photos by xiayou at Gamla here

Planning studies in Trondheim next semester?

Studieby1 is an umbrella-organization for the university, NTNU, HiST and other educational institutions in Trondheim. They plan to organize an online chat where coming students can send in their questions on any thing they might think of on how, what and where about studyingin Trondheim. I heard because the dragvollportalen.no, where I do some volounteer work with two other students is asked to take upon the job of organizing the whole schedule of getting students to sit and asnwer any qeustions that might be sent in. The online chat will be open from 10.00 am to 10.00 pm (+1 CET). For one month. Volounteers? Anyone?

There`s a party

Here`s the party, folks. Music is being played at Gloshaugen, `cause it`s

weeeekend!!

AC/DC - Thunder

Rammstein - Feuer Frei

Press play

Playlist brought to you by a request from my brother which is currently serving in the military with the K-9 Units in Oslo.

Mid-term test finsihed!

It has been freezing in Trondheim the last few days. It has crawled down to minus fifteen degrees celsius. Brr.

I am sorry that this blog so far has circled around everything else but school but there is just too much to do when it comes to studying and so much other things to do when I am online at last. I had a mid-term test in Discrete Mathematics today. Part one consisted of multiple-choice tasks while part two had two big pieces of i-don`t-know-what-the-f*ck-it-was. I think it went well though.

But for now, I bring you my weekly music-blog-special. I feel that I should have a topic for each Friday when I list up new and cool songs. Today I bring you:

the cool and smooth songs that you turn on while you are freshing up and getting ready to meet your friends before you go out on a saturday or friday evening...

De La Soul ft. Redman - Oooh

Beastie Boys - Sure Shot

Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade

Marilyn Manson - Rock Is Dead

System Of A Down - Sad Statue

These songs should get you started for example tomorrow evening while you are singing in the bathroom and sipping on an ice cold Corona you press repeat and turn the bitch up.

Picture courtesy of www.foto.no, winner of this month`s contest where the theme was "how to keep warm".