Engineering — Germany

May 31^st, 2018

Day 17 of Germany started off like the rest with wake up at 7am, breakfast and take the U7 train to class by 9am. Class today consisted of a discussion over the assigned reading and forming groups for our final presentations on Sunday. The Wi-Fi really sucked so we all decided to leave and go back to the apartments to work on them a little. May have even snuck in a power nap…

Picture above: Groups hard at work and eating lunch at the CityLab.

Before we met the engineer that designed the displays for the Neues museum. Walked 20 minutes in the sunny 29°C weather. Such a beautiful day, couldn’t possibly miss the opportunity. During the walk, we did some “learning on the go.” Professor Feinauer gave us some background on the community garden.

Martin Jönsson, the engineer who wrote the article we discussed earlier in class, greeted us outside with a crate of waters, I guess we looked pretty exhausted from our 20min walk. Martin explained his thought process and obstacles of how the exhibits came to be. We finished with a tour of their workshop and parted ways until Sunday!

Brock, Naveed and I went to the Holocaust museum since we didn’t get the chance to go inside the first day we thought there wouldn’t be any line to go inside. Guess what? There was no line! Definitely worth going today. Highly recommend! Reading the notes left behind will definitely make you tear up, but you will learn more from first hand experiences.

Picture of the Holocaust Memorial

So, we were trying to get back to our apartments and ended up at Yorkstraße station. We had to go above ground to find the U7 entrance. We saw a big dome in the skyline, so we said, “let’s go see what that is” and so we did. Turned out to be St. Matthew’s church and a cemetery. We walked through the cemetery because Coach said that it was something to see since they weren’t anything like the ones back in the States. Coach was right so here’s the picture.