Autumn 2010 Battle Field

In my first semester, we are only allowed to take default courses at thefirst period, and made choice to take 1 course at the second period, as whatMay-Britt, our coordinator program inform us in her email:

From: May-Britt xx
Date: 29 september 2010 13.27.15 CEST
To: xxx
Subject:[Tcomm_students_ak1] Course election for period 2

Dear Communication Systemsstudents,

You have one mandatorycourse for next period (period 2): IK2206 Internet Security and Privacy http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/IK2206?l=en_UKYou will automatically be admitted to that course.

As we have informed you atthe meeting last Friday, you have to choose the 2:nd course.

You can now make yourchoice of elective course for period 2. You make the choice in Daisy, under thetab "Select/Register". The course election is open until October 15.

To summarize, you shouldselect one of three courses:
- IK2205 InterdomainRouting, 7.5p
- IK2506 Advanced CommunicationSystems, 7.5p
- II2300 ProductRealization Processes I, 7.5p

The links to the course webpages can be found at http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/program/tcomm/ht10/?l=en_UK

Regards,
May-Britt xx
Programme Coordinator
KTH, Royal Institute ofTechnology
Information andCommunication Technology
Forum xx
SE-xxx xx Kista, Sweden
Visiting address: Forum,Isafjordsg xx

Means, the complete list for the first semester would be:
First autumn
Focus: Communication security, including advanced topics in networking and security, theory and laboratory exercises.
Period
Field
ICT Entrepreneurship
Internetworking
Wireless Networks
1 (Aug-Oct)
II2202 Research Methodology and Scientific Writing [MANDATORY]
Code 90710 - 7.5 ECTS
IK2215 Advanced Internetworking [MANDATORY]
Code 7.5 ECTS

2 (Nov-Jan)
II2300 Product Realization Processes I 
Code 90711 - 7.5 ECTS
IK2206 Internet Security and Privacy [MANDATORY]
Code 90718 - 7.5 ECTS
IK2506 Advanced Communication Systems
Code 90724 - 7.5 ECTS
IK2205 Inter Domain Routing  
Code 90717 - 7.5 ECTS

After spending some time to think, here is my battlefield:
1. Internet Security and Privacy
Well.. as you can see this is mandatory course, no matter I will like itor not :p I think it's great, since security is a very basic understanding toward any student who want to pursue communication systems field, either in wireless (mostly telco) field or internetworking (IT) field.

2. Inter Domain Routing
Uhm, even tough I also interested to take the Product RealizationProcesses course, as many friends at second year this course is much fun. But I cannotmake a risk to leave the internetworking course to the next year because Ithough, at that time I already should have some idea about my thesis topic,which is I hope will be in my informatics area, means I will need muchbackground on that. So, I decided to join to that entrepreneurship courselater. 

Moreover, I don’t have any idea about the Advance Communication Systemssubject (i mean, how I can survive through that).. When I read the content ofthe course, seems to me it much more talks about calculation oftelecommunication things, where I don’t have good background about, so Idecided to just ignore it, at least for now.
Here is the link for the course http://www.kth.se/student/kurser/kurs/IK2205

So, wish me luck!