It’s been more than a year since I defen­ded my thesis. I still have mixed feel­ings when I look back on the 4^th Decem­ber 2008, not because of the defence but other thinks that happened back then — good and unfor­tu­nately also bad ones.

One of the good things that happened that day: my col­leagues and friends built a really great mor­tar­board (Dok­t­orhut in Ger­man), and you defin­it­ively have to use the verb “build” because it actu­ally is an actu­ated, blink­ing piece of metal and car­pet. Yes, car­pet. Great stuff, really!

So, yes­ter­day I finally decided to pick it up. Car­ry­ing such a big (and admit­tedly funny-looking) thing in the train and tram is really chal­len­ging, it’s just like hav­ing a fel­low pas­sen­ger. With only small dam­age we both finally reached our home, my flat in Bremen.

Thanks guys for the past years!

RoboCup-Doktorhut :)