To start, thanks a lot for you reply, every idea, suggestion, and support is very welcome for me right know :D

I never went to Germany but I've learn a few words in France (not enough to have a simple conversation which is bad, I really regret the fact that I didn't take the opportunity to learn German). And thank you for your proposal :D I will try to remember if the chance appears to go spend sometime working or even studying in Germany :D

My university has 2 problems... And those are not invented ones (I had a bad time myself believing that this was true but it is 100% true).

1 - Only 2 people in the whole Engineering Program (since on my University we also have other formations like Multimedia, Nursing, Networks etc..), and this across the 3 years, love what they are doing... the others are just here because... euh... I don't really know why to be honest :S... And this is quite sad to begin with.. I was hopping (in my day-dream) for a school, like in the movies, with a camp Pro-Windows, another Pro-Mac, and another Pro-Gnu/Linux (divided by the "I don't care about freedom" camp, and the "Only Free Software" camp), something nice like this... but it turned out that this was a pure lie (maybe like you said, I'm only very unlucky..). PS : The only two persons are me and my friend that only uses Arch Linux 1 hour a month (maybe less) because he uses simply what works the best... and since he plays games a lot then he mostly uses Windows. And yes there is no other person using Gnu/Linux daily.. the last person that I know that uses Gnu/Linux daily is my Ex-Girlfriend, but that's another history.

2 - This course is about doing what they want you to do in order to go to work knowing what they want you to know... Nothing more... Nothing else. And this is sad, because school here in Portugal (and almost everywhere else) turned out to be around the idea of getting a job, and nothing more than that... And even at that they fail ! I have already worked (as a student) on some enterprises, related to Computer Programming or not (like a bank), and I never seen anyone using Microsoft SQL Server for their database... so..

The real problem, is that, even if I open my mind and let them teach what they want, with the tools they want, I finish to learning absolutely nothing... I finished the first year in July and I came to home knowing that what they told be I already knew.. and this is quite sad... but what can I do :S

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