So now I shall summarize the events of the end of last week, leading up to my first departure from Budapest since I arrived here about a month ago.
My only class on Thursday was at 8, which was quite nice. I used the rest of the morning to work and bought my train ticket for Vienna. It was a very easy process, as the people working there spoke English and I only needed to specify the day I was leaving, since the return could be anytime in the 3 days after the departure. Anyways, after working and ticket-buying, I went with some people down to the Four Tigers Market for lunch. Our classmate who speaks Vietnamese didn't go with us, as he had class, but we were still able to order some delicious food. I had knuckle soup, which I believe was pork, and was quite good (and rich, as was expected), though I think I prefer the pho. Again, the soup was made much better by the addition of the homemade chili-garlic sauce (I believe, it was very similar to sriracha) and pickled peppers/garlic, which were fantastic. Next time I go with the student who speaks Vietnamese I'm going to try and get him to ask the shop owners if I can buy some of the peppers, because they're great. I tried to buy a bahn mi (a Vietnamese sandwich on a baguette) from the stall to split with one of the guys, but they were out. Again. I sense a conspiracy.
After lunch, tofu and fun-looking mushrooms were bought. I don't know what type they were, but they were very good. I then wandered the street opposite the market with people in order to try and find the Chinese groceries and restaurants that I thought were there. After much wandering through markets and office buildings, with signs, in Chinese, that I couldn't read most of, I eventually found a grocery store. It was more of a normal Chinese grocery store than the markets across the way (though they had fewer vegetables it seems), and I picked up some chili oil, Sichuan pepper, and peanut butter. This is the first time I've seen peanut butter in a store, so I promptly bought some. It's a brand I've never heard of, from I have no idea what country. It was only 1000 forints, or between 4 and 5 dollars which, considering the scarcity of peanut butter, is something I'm willing to pay. Pretty good peanut butter too.
After the grocery (which I was more excited about than anyone else), we walked a little further down the street, poking our head inside other places, and found a kinai gyorsbüfé, or Chinese fast food restaurant, which is what most of the (bad) Chinese places here are called. However, we saw Chinese people coming out and, knowing the location, I wanted to give it a try. We had already eaten lunch at this point, remember, so I was just looking for some dumplings. And it was definitely different than any other kinai gyorsbüfé. I don't quite remember what was in it, but it definitely wasn't your usual affair. We did buy some dumplings, at 50 forints or about 25 cents a pop, and they were delicious. I also got a chance to speak some Chinese with the man working there (as I can speak Chinese much better than Hungarian). I had some trouble understanding him as he was Southern and had a lisp, but I was successful.
I then called my trip a success and returned to my apartment, where I spent the rest of the day and night doing homework, with a brief intermission to make dinner (throwing together what we had lying around) and watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail with some friends.

Friday, it seemed, had broken his dreams.
I had classes all day on Friday, which was interesting. 4 classes, back-to-back, in the university building for around 8 hours. It was more classes I've had sequentially since I finished high school, though there were breaks spread throughout it to make it more do-able.
This was the first time I had three of my classes: Statistics, Bioinformatics, and Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations. Statistics is about what I expected, but should be reasonably interesting, as it will probably be a little more math-y than if I had taken it at Oberlin. There's 3 of us in that class. Bioinformatics seems cool; the first class was an overview of the (very limited) biology we'll need to know and a very simple model of genome rearrangement, which will be the topic of the first half of the class. There's 4 of us in that class. Taken in total, 3 of the 6 classes I'm currently in (those two plus intro to abstract algebra) have 4 or fewer people in them, which is interesting.
Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations looks like it will involve systems of differential equations and how you can use them in models, which will be very fun. Though scheduled as a reading class, it has more than 7 people in it, I'd say, making it rather large.
Lunch was a hurried sandwich that I made at home eaten in the 15 minutes between class at noon. I need to find artichoke hearts here, which I know exist, because they'd be great on the sandwiches I've been making.
After class, which ended at 4, I ran back to my apartment to pack and head over to the train station. Fortunately it was the one right next to my house, because the train left at 5:10 and we were meeting up at around 4:45 to make sure we would get there in time. As we were only going to be gone until Sunday,  I didn't need more than a backpack worth of stuff, which was very good. Anyways, we all made it on to the train with no problem, though the latest member of our party made it on about 3 minutes before the door closed, and we got there too late to have seats next to each other, so we were spread out across two cars. This was perhaps not too surprising, though, as there were 11 of us.
The train ride was without incident. We didn't even have to show our passports when we crossed the border, just our tickets again. It took about 3 hours total and was a very easy ride.
Then we arrived in Vienna and that will have to wait until later to be told.