In Europe, the first week of university is known as Week Zero or Freshman Week.

There are no classes during the week, and all the time is spent getting students acquainted with the campus and joining various sports, arts, or study groups.

After meeting Professor Hugo, Jonas had already received his tuition fees and received his school uniform.

On the day of the opening ceremony, all new students must wear their school uniform and attend the ceremony in the stadium of the sports center on the new campus.

The new campus of the University of Zurich is located on the eastern plateau of the northern suburbs, separated by FIFA to the east and Zurich Polytechnic University to the west.

The new campus is large, with Highway 1 leading to the airport passing through the middle of the campus, dividing the campus into two parts.

On the east side is the main campus, on the west side is the school's Ilzerse Park, and the sports center is located in the Ilchean Park.

The highway is lower than the campus, and on the highway, there is a passage more than 100 meters wide that connects the two sides of the campus, and the passage itself is built like a park.

This year, the University of Zurich has recorded a record number of new students enrolling at more than 4,000, bringing the number of students to more than 15,000.

At the opening ceremony, Principal Moting gave a detailed introduction to the school's teachers.

At present, the university has 160 professors and 1,300 lecturers, and the student-to-faculty ratio has reached 1:10, which is second to none among European public universities.

Both the University of Zurich and its sister institution, the Zurich Institute of Technology, are governed by the cantonal government, and the rector is also a government official, not an education official.

Therefore, at present, the president is only a logistics service staff, and the real power of education belongs to the school management committee and the deans of each college.

The opening ceremony of each university was not much different, and after listening to the two-hour introduction of the school, all the students escaped from the gymnasium as if they were amnesty.

At this time, the senior students set up a small booth on the passage outside the gymnasium to welcome the new students.

Different clubs attract new students in different ways, which is particularly lively.

Jonas came out of the gymnasium and, along with Sterten, first joined the football team.

Jonas is also a small celebrity, he is now a professional footballer, and he is naturally highly regarded in the football team.

He explained to the team's manager, a senior female senior sister for a long time, before he got rid of her entanglement and did not register on the football team.

However, he also lost his portrait rights in a humiliating manner, so that the varsity football team could use his portrait to attract new students.

It's really a group of beautiful cheerleaders who are too fierce, if he doesn't agree, I'm afraid he won't be able to leave today.

With his consent, the members of the football team quickly pulled out a large billboard with his photo printed on it, and seeing their smug smiles, it was clearly premeditated.

Jonas didn't really care, the school team is not a for-profit club, but there are inter-school non-profit competitions with other universities in Switzerland, and it doesn't matter if you borrow his sign.

Later, Jonas joined the ski team, which was the school's number one club, and except for a few students from the tropics, no one didn't like skiing.

By joining the school team, you can organise a variety of skiing activities during the long winter months, and the school has preferential agreements with many ski resorts, so you can go skiing at half the cost compared to going on your own.

Jonas then joined the fencing team, and Stertten joined the mountaineering team and the kayaking team.

The canoeing team and the Zurich Institute of Technology are "feuds", and the school teams of the two schools have had a feud for more than 100 years, and this feud will continue.

If Jonas wasn't going to play in the First Division, he would have played a few more varsity teams, but right now, he really didn't have time.

But there is no time, and he will not give up on all the study groups.

There are more than 100 study groups in the school, and each major has its own study group, as well as some social practice groups.

For example, Model United Nations, such as international environmental protection, Third World rescue teams, and so on.

Participating in such a group is not a literary group, a sports group is as simple as a sports group, just need to sign up.

If you want to join such a group, you basically only recruit students from your own department, and those social practice groups require your past qualifications.

If you are not a student in the same department, you will be asked to show proof of your ability in this area, so there is no such thing as indiscriminate filling.

Jonas has a lot of qualifications, and after graduating from Ross College, he has already experienced the training of college in high school.

For example, Model United Nations, they have all competed within the United Nations, which is a qualification that most people do not have.

Jonas joined almost all of the relevant study groups, but he also explained his situation to the relevant leaders in advance, saying that he might not have much time to participate in group activities in the future.

Like the Model United Nations team, they participate in the Model United Nations competition between European universities at least once a year.

This competition, which is organized between more than 20 universities from various countries, does not count the preparation time, and the competition alone will take half a month, and Jonas really has no time.

But the regular study group Jonas does not have time, because the activities in the study group are counted as credit parameters.

A European credit requires 10 hours of lectures, 20 hours of extracurricular learning and activities, and joining study groups and activities counts as credits.

Credit parameters relate to all aspects of learning, including attending lectures and lectures, attending seminars, independent study and self-study, preparing project reports and completing assignments, taking exams, etc.

According to the learning task, each student needs more than seven hours a day to meet the basic requirements, counting the credit parameters.

Therefore, in Europe and university, the study task is very heavy, and if you are lazy for a day, you may not be able to keep up with your learning progress.

And that's not something you can just cheat at.

It is impossible to attend all the study groups in one day, and Jonas has only joined the Corporate Finance Management Group, the Macro Finance Research Group, and the International Finance Research Group in the afternoon.

Anyway, there was still a week to go, and Jonas had plenty of time to join all the study groups.

At half past four, he said goodbye to a classmate named Greven from Luxembourg that he met today, took the light rail tram, and returned to the old campus.

There are not many people on the old campus today, and his car is parked in a roadside parking space not far from the teaching building. He picked up a bag of coffee beans in a bubble bag, carried his backpack, and headed to the Institute of Finance again.

It was still the security guard who couldn't help but look twice when he saw what Jonas was in his hand.

Jonas didn't have the slightest taboo and said with a smile: "I asked Senior Erwin to choose a course for me, and these coffee beans are a gift for making friends." ”

Erwin, a PhD student of Professor Hugo, had already received offers from a number of companies and institutions last year, but he insisted on getting a PhD before working. ”

Jonas couldn't help but take one more look at the security guard, who looked like an uncle-next-door person, wondering if he was a sweeper-like figure.

"Do you know all the students?"

"Of course not, I only know a dozen professors who work here, and the students they lead. It's my job. ”

Jonas smiled and asked, "Giving some gifts won't have a bad effect, right?"

The security guard couldn't help but complain: A bag of 20 catties of coffee beans is still a little gift? He smiled and asked, "What's the problem?"

Jonas relieved, waved at him, and walked to the main building with the coffee beans in his hand.

As he went up the stairs, he met a professor who came downstairs, took one look at the bubble bag in his hand, and couldn't help but ask, "This is the coffee bean?"

Jonas was now in a higher position than him, and when he heard his question, he didn't dare to be careless, and walked down a few steps back before saying, "Senior Erwin helped me make a study plan, this is a little bit of my heart. Interaction between classmates...... It doesn't matter, does it?"

These professors who can work part-time in the Institute of Finance are all big names, and each of them has a very wide network of connections and has a huge influence in both political and business circles.

The other man smiled and asked, "Erwin, Professor Hugo's student?"

Jonas nodded. He smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll just ask." Are you a freshman in finance?"

"Yes"

He smiled and said, "I'm Steintegen, and you may take my class in the future." ”

Jonas hurriedly put down the coffee beans, stretched out his hands and said, "Hello, Professor Tegen, I have heard of your name, you are a real expert in asset and wealth management. ”

Slightly surprised, he reached out and asked, "You've heard of me before?"

Jonas took his hand, shook it lightly twice, and let it go. "I've had guidance from Brüti Wolff, who has a lot of respect for your talent in capital management. ”

He was getting more and more curious. "Bruty is my old classmate, he is now the head of Hoffmann Bank. You're from the Hoffman family?"

"My name is Jonas Hoffmann and it's been a pleasure to meet Professor Tegan. ”

He smiled and nodded. "University courses are not easy, and I hope you will be able to adapt to university life quickly. ”

This meant to end the conversation, and Jonas nodded. "Thank you, Professor Tegen, for your encouragement, I will work hard. Wishing you a good day. ”

"Good day. ”

Looking at his back, Jonas could guess that he should have recognized the coffee he was mentioning, maybe he was a coffee fan, so he was curious and talked a few words.

However, with Wolf's side of the relationship, Jonas considered how to get in touch with him in the future.

It's not okay to give gifts rashly, and the other party won't accept them.

These professors of economics are not poor, they earn a lot as professors, and the part-time income of the Institute of Finance is not low, and then they all have academic research funds.

Just take a small task from a big company and let a group of students work as coolies, and you can earn a lot of money.

Such people cannot be won over by giving some gifts, and there must be a suitable reason to approach them.