The Zurich English Student Podcast #7

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Apocalypse goggles
- Pointless presentations
- Complaining and ranting
- Raph invites spammers
- Jenny instructs trolls

Name the Maimed!

We all heard the news, haven’t we. Marathon bombs, Boston losing legs and lives. It had little to do with Shakespeare, but it was called a tragedy. And who said only good old Bill could create convincing drama? But who cares anyway? What does it matter who wrote it? Intentional fallacy. We have more pressing concerns than a dead and withered author.

For a nation that “refuses to be terrorized,” America is surprisingly obsessed with their terrorists.

The Zurich English Student Podcast #6

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Another guest appearance for news
- The pursuit of objective reality
- American animated television
- Jenny is not a cartoon character
- Raph does quite a lot of cutting

True Story, Bro (I Know We’re Not Related)

Raph al Guul

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coinc- okay, I couldn’t say that with a straight face…

Right now, out there somewhere, a teenage boy is staring at his high school crush’s Twitter feed. He does not have the courage to approach her in person and tell her about how she makes his entire body tingle just by smiling at him. However, he thinks that if he studies her from a distance for long enough, reading all of her little tweets over and over again, he will eventually learn how to go about it.

The Zurich English Student Podcast #5

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Newsless Babble
- Reluctance to embrace Freud
- Shameless self-promotion
- Raph dreams of smoking
- Jenny dreams of a table’s legs

Stupidity

Friedrich Jo

Stupidity, n.

Pronunciation: /stjuːˈpɪdɪtɪ/
Etymology: < Latin stupiditās, n. < Latin stupidus, adj.

A noun commonly believed to denote the rather abstract concept of a stark lack of intelligence, learning and quick-wittedness. However, researchers’ focus has begun to shift increasingly towards older writings which describe stupidity not as a mere concept, but a very real and substantial creature of the dragon family.

The Zurich English Student Podcast #4

Raph and Jenny ramble about university-related matters and whatever else matters to them. Please provide us with any sort of constructive feedback (use the comment section or send us an email) so that we can eliminate problems if possible. On this episode:

- Pig picture stuff
- Outlook on the upcoming semester
- Discussion of experiences with instructors
- Unexpected nudity
- Jenny earns cheers
- Raph forces metal music on you again

Some Student’s Winter Break 2013 II – The Day of the Fire

Friedrich Jo

Now that you know who I am – namely a person who harbours an obvious talent for failing rather verbosely at any attempt of describing the complexities of the human self – it seems more than appropriate for me to tell you some more about the things a student of English might actually be up to during their winter break 2013. Here it now seems inevitable to inform you of how little is usually going on around where I come from. It is dark, dry, cold and dusty on that part of the moon which only once each year gets very briefly touched by the warming rays of our star sol. Darkness, cold, and dusty aridity constitute a rather solid base for the absence of pretty much anything that could be called eventful or exciting.

10 Things Your PC Might Say to You – And What They Really Mean

Raph al Guul

Hope everybody’s break is going well. Here’s a random, picture-heavy post you might care to read while you’re tanning in the Caribbean or skiing down any or all snowy mountains. Plus: if you’re using a Windows PC, this is some free knowledge that most likely won’t benefit you whatsoever.

We all know the phenomenon: every now and then, your oh-so-smart PC decides to express itself in needlessly esoteric language. Here are ten things your personal computer might say to you – and what they really mean:

Some Student’s Winter Break 2013 – Getting to Know Each Other

Friedrich Jo

As the Zurich English Student has a tendency to get rather deserted during break times, I thought that there should perhaps be some more or less regular feature for those who still follow our blog and maybe also to show you that ES students don’t just go into hibernation mode over the break. So, here it is, gloriously arising, a landmark amongst dust and tumbleweed, some sort of student holiday column. However, be warned that this will be a more than semi-fictional account of some student’s term break (mis)adventures. Thus, the events, places and living entities mentioned in this column are very likely to never have existed in exactly the way you will find them depicted in this column. So, don’t worry and make sure you take more of it as a borderline insane mind’s fiction or some great and almost painfully unfunny joke than you’d have originally felt inclined to. With these words of warning I will leave you to the strange account of some student’s winter break 2013.