On Friday, we took a train to Wiener Neustadt to have a tour of the university of applied sciences there. We were also treated to a lecture on a process of treating tumors using carbon ions that have been created using a synchrotron. The ions are fired at the tumor in a beam in order to destroy them, and the facility required to begin this procedure in Austria is already under construction. There are already about three of these special clinics in the world today.
Unfortunately, Dr. Recheis was unable to give his lecture on radiological anthropology as planned. It was during this visit that I learned how easy it is to pursue graduate education in Europe. Chiefly, a lot of the classes for a Masters or PhD degree are already taught in English, and quite a few laboratories have students with only English as a common language.
After returning to Vienna, me and some other students used our free time to visit the Hundertwasserhaus. The Hundertwasserhaus is an apartment complex designed by the architect Hundertwasser. Its primary characteristics are that it looks a bit like something from a Doctor Seuss book and that it’s painted in bold and perhaps slightly obnoxious colors.
On Saturday, we went to Sigmund Freud’s house, which was about a five-minute walk from our hotel. In addition to a tour of the house, Dr. Wasser gave his promised lecture on the life and work of Freud at his house. In the afternoon, we went to the natural history museum of Vienna. This was by far the most impressive museum of the trip. The museum is designed in a fashion similar to what one would expect of a royal palace. However,
they also have an impressive number of exhibitions on all forms of wildlife in all shapes and sizes, such as the fly in the picture. A large number of the animals are the stuffed bodies of creatures collected especially for the museum in the 1800s. We left for the airport for our return flight almost immediately after leaving the museum, and we were able to make it back by 11 PM.
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