My courses at LUT

Today was the last day to register the courses of the first phase. (one semester has two phases)

After a long debate with Roman we finally decided to cancel "Secured Communication". It would have been about cryptographic topics like hash, (a)symmetric encryption, digital signature, and so on and on and on....
Not the cryptography would have been the problem, the reason why we canceled this course was the amount of hours for a programming exercise. In the description of the course they calculated 40h (+30h seminar work) of home study to code this program. (Implementation of a cryptographic algorithm) And the best part as quote:

"**The lack of skills in programming will cause the actual workload be higher than this. "

So, i decided to have a lack in programming :) and I'm not willing to code the whole semester *bg*

So instead of "Secured Communication" we chose "Parallel Computing". The amount of lectures for this course is higher then "Secured Communication", but the complexity of the coding work is about 20h. As you see, whatever we would choose, coding is a must do. I'm not really happy about this.

I had another strategy, but we thought that our home university will not accept this, so we finally will attend the course "Parallel Computing".

In the end our plan looks like this:

• Parallel Computing 6 ECTS (2 phases)
  
• Mobility Management 4 ECTS (1 phase)
  
• Finnish for Foreigners 1 2 ECTS (1 phase)
  
• Finnish - German Tandem 1 ECTS

In the second phase Finnish for Foreigners 2 2 ECTS and maybe Presenting in English 2 ECTS.
And of course we got 3 ECTS points for doing the EILC course. (Thanks to Jürgen for finally excepting 3 of 5 credits)

This all sounds not much, but I'm doing my study abroad, not my main study ;)
I need time for Finland, the people, the exchange students and so on.....

But nevertheless, I think our choice is more than enough work. (For example, the estimated workload for Parallel Computing is 175h). And the really bad thing is, LUT has some really interesting courses, for example "Network Design and Analysis", "Network Programming" and so on, but they are all in the spring semester.
Also you should not forget, that we also have to do our pre-thesis project here in Finland. DAMN, just too much to do!!!