I think about it every day. And feel it every day. My brain seems to be getting slower, I forget things more often, I’m growing ever more cynical and even interested in politics. Yes, getting older really does suck.

I’ve often heard people complain about how this and that body part hurts now from some sporting accident years ago, or the “I just don’t have the energy” anymore thing. I don’t have much sympathy for that kind of talk yet. But why didn’t anyone ever tell me that the older I got, the more I would realize how much things really do indeed suck in this world, which in turn makes you an unhappy person?

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Well, it’s been an interesting semester – less stressful than the last one. This sesmester I took: Robotics, Robotics Laboratory, Modern Materials (a mixture of modern/quantum physics and materials science), Microsystems Technology (microstructures – actuators, sensors, production methods, etc), mechatronics lab (industrial-type environment experiments), Space technology, and I did a “scientific project”. And I FINALLY GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE – or “Führerschein” as its called. That was pretty amazing compared to what you go through in the US. I’ll never listen to anyone complain about paying for driving school in the US, that’s for sure…