I found campus pretty easily and then finding my building was super simple because there are signs and maps all over campus. I am taking Oper im 18. Jahrhunderts, aka opera in the 18th century, and I was not expecting there to be nearly so many people there for such a course. I show up, and there is this long line of people waiting to get in after the other class gets out, once they clear out, everyone heads in. I am expecting a room large enough to fit everyone, if not fit everyone comfortably. But since you don't have to register for lecture courses, they don't know how many people will show up and in a school with 75,000 people, it could be a million. It was not a million, but more than the room could hold, there were only enough tables for about the first half of students, the rest of us grabbed leftover chairs in the back, brought chairs in from the outside, sat on window sills or stood. Utter chaos.
Once the class got started it wasn't too bad. My professor is very animated and a good lecturer, not reading from the slide, but definitely elaborating off those points, making funny jokes auf Deutsch that I can't understand. In spite of understanding well more than half of what he was saying, I could not always hear, translate in my head, read the slides and take notes successfully, leaving me actually capturing and retaining about half. And the half I did get, was written completely in Denglish! Which I don't mind too much, since I can understand both, but this means typed study guides will be a must.
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