OK we will be frank with you guys. The stories submitted so far have ranged from the skin-crawlingly awful to the embarassing.
Come on now! We have an iPad 1 for you. Apple's distributor Eplehuset in Denmark has donated it, and we want something in return. We want your best, or worst, University of Copenhagen experience.
There is still time to write your wonderful or terrible experience in the comment field below. Remember your name, so we can find you if you have won.
Your story is not as bad as mine
In the coming weeks we will be putting up sets of stories from both Universitypost.dk and the Danish site uniavisen.dk up for the vote.
The stories that get the most votes go on to subsequent rounds, and at the end of May 2011 we find the lucky winner of an iPad 1.
So this is the University Post / Universitetsavisen newsroom's first selection of stories. Don't worry if you have already submitted a story recently, it may still be in the running. You can read the stories submitted in the comment field below the articles here and on the Danish site here.
First selection
For the first round we have chosen four stories, three of them are in Danish, but we have made a summary of them here so non-Danish speakers can get the gist of them:
Johannes found himself stuck in the pouring rain with a new, fresh cold sore in the middle of his face, without the books he should have had with him for his exams. Then he failed.
Nobody bothered to tell Denise when her building was evacuated as a mysterious smoke started seeping in through the doorways. She couldn't understand where everyone had gone. As she puts it to herself, self-deprecatingly: My fellow students said that »they took it for granted that I was out of the building, but I have been thinking. Maybe I should start drawing more attention to myself.«
Cutbacks at the University had Kirstine's classes cut from the syllabus. So her Easter break was used for an intensive crash study of the physiology of the intestine.
Shimelis, from Ethiopia, had a bad first day in Denmark. Taking the bus from Holland, he ended up in Jutland, instead of Copenhagen. This is the uplifting part of his story. After an expensive train trip to Copenhagen, his friend failed to show up at the Central Station. A 'kind' Danish guy gave him DKK 0.25 for a call, with no success. Taking a taxi to the Faculty of Life Sciences to register, it was closed, and he was forced to collapse in an expensive Copenhagen hotel.
Vote for one of the four experiences that you think is the best WORST below. The winner will go on to the next round.
Rules
You must be student or staff at the University of Copenhagen, and you may send in as many experiences as you want. Write each experience as a comment in the comment field. Try to keep it short.
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Comments
That was epic!
In June 2010, we organised with my building-mate a big after exam party called "the epic party"!
It was 4 floors open party, with music, beer, food, and that was great! I would say that 75% of the people were drunk before midnight but the party mood was cool and nice.
Around 2 am, we saw on the street blue a red lights coming... fuck! 3 cops came into the last open flat of the building, and when they saw the 100 people in the flat they started complaining about the noise, and said they would arrest the organizers if everybody was not leaving right now!
One of our smart student friends, brought them out of the flat and explained them that we were the only resident of the building so we weren't bothering anyone, and furthermore that was our last Erasmus party in Cph before leaving.
The cops came back and said "ok guys... close the windows, and restart pratying, everything clear" and they left.
I can still remember my flatmate opening the window right after and shoot "woah! the Cops came! that's definitely a party"
That was, for me, my best Erasmus party... it end up to 6 am....
But then we decided to go swimming in the harbor!
So we went near to the queen residence in front of the Opera (Ameliehaven), and we had a bath...
But then we decided with one of my friend to swim to the Opera... that a long way to swim, and we were not really "fresh". That was stupid... but we did it. When we arrived there we were already really really tired. The problem was the way back... I asked my friend if he was ok, and if he could do it... he answer me by jumping in the water and said "I am still drunk man, and i am not tired at all!" and he started swimming. I jumped too and tried to reach him as soon as possible. On the middle of the way he was just sooo tired that he stopped swimming: fuck! There was more than 1/2km both ways to reach the earth... I took him on my back and started swimming slowly, that was really tiring
Hopefully for him I was a well trained swimmer and after 20 minutes of epic swimming and breaks we reach the border. And got home safe.
After one year this night stay as my n°1 "fun & emotion night". That's clearly the best party I ever had! When I am talking with my friend about it he says "that was stupid, we could have died there, or got arrested by the cops for organizing such a mess... But fuck that was amazing! That was what we call the real Erasmus experience"
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