Lulea, Sweden
LTU
Today, Katarina picked me and Josh up at the hotel to take us to see the university where we'll be spending the rest of the week. We basically took a tour around the campus and eating lunch (pictures to follow!).
LTU is the northernmost university in Scandinavia with about 14,000 students and 1,400 employees. There are four different campuses: Lulea, Pitea, Kiruna, and Skelleftea. Engineering is the largest field of study. Business, health science, and teaching are also popular areas of study. Many students take only a few courses. Third cycle education (or doctorate programs) are available in human social sciences and technology. One thousand students study via distance education each year. We actually got to see the distance education rooms. They are very small and resemble something out of a movie--like a space command center or something. Most students who take distance education will even stay home to watch lectures, so there are often no more than 10 students in the room and sometimes none. The university is home to approximately 600 exchange students per year and 600 masters and nursing students. The university turns over 130 million Euros per year, 70 million of this in research. research is conducted in coordination with large companies such as Shell, Ericsson, Volvo, and IBM.
After a tour of the campus, we went to Uni:K. The name is pronounced Unique, but when a ":" is present in a name, this stands for a shortening of the title. The name actually stands for University Kaffe--or University Cafe or Coffee Shop. I had a salad, and Josh and Katarina both had the salmon pasta. They had a fabulous salad bar as well (every place in Sweden pretty much has a pre-meal salad bar, and this one has definitely been the best. Yum!).
Afterwards was my favorite part of the meal. I had carrot cake and amazing hot chocolate. 
Josh had some cappucino which he said was awesome. I'll just have to take his word on that.
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