I was realizing today that the Polytech' kind of reminds me of high school. Well, ok, a highly specialized high school for big kids. The productique department is all contained in one building, they block out your entire schedule for you, there's no course selection at all involved. Today someone came into my class to tell us to all go to a meeting - in fact, it was an assembly of all the 3rd years - I guess you can just do that in that sort of an environment.

The meeting was actually kind of interesting. At the moment, the productique department is composed of the EEs and the MechEs, but when you get your degree, it is a degree in productique. There's talk now of changing the system to separate the two so that your diploma will actually say either electrical or mechanical.

Interesting revelation of the day: in France am does not mean morning! on the contrary, it stands for après-midi, meaning afternoon. That confused me for a couple minutes.

Well, our last excursion is coming up this weekend, then it's the home stretch!

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