Oh well- I guess all good things come to an end?
City life . Culture . Night life . Student life . TravelWithin three weeks I am packing up my stuff, which is A LOT more than when I first came to Munich, and traveling back to Sweden. These past months have truly gone by so fast! It feels like yesterday when I was walking in a sunny Englischer Garten for the first time, being amazed by
Hellohello everyone!
City life . Culture . Excursions . Student lifeMy name is Malin and I’m from Sweden. Most people that I meet abroad think my name is “Molly” or “Marilyn”, but that is not the case! Malin is a very very Swedish name, so it’s not strange at all that people mispronounce it abroad. Oh well, what about me then? I grew up in
Living a dream
Authors . Student life . TravelEveryone has one or even more dreams that wants to make come true. I’m living mine, but I have to start from the beginning. Hi readers, I’m Greta, I’m 20 and I’m from Italy. The Latins used to say “omen nomen” when someone has a name that reflects his/her characteristics or passions. I think that
My year in 3 months aka what is wrong with time
Authors . Sports . Student life . UncategorizedI am grateful for one of the first blogs we had to write with our expectations of the Erasmus semester. Thanks to that blog post, I can compare and evaluate my growth and achievements. I wrote that I want to: be independent, let my personality grow, explore my hidden talents and hobbies, get motivation for
Too hard to say goodbye…my beloved Munich😭
Student lifeHi! Here is Chang. Four months are coming to an end and for the first time I feel so sad about the end of the semester. Thank you so much to LMU for giving me this precious exchange opportunity and for making a memory that will last a lifetime. This was my first time in
When the goodbye is just for now.
Student life . TravelI am excited, ready, and nervous all at the same time as I prepare to make the journey to Munich. I have always wanted to be an exchange student once in my lifetime. I arrived here knowing no one; it was my first time flying alone, far from home in a country where I did
Social Media: enemy or ally?
Student lifeBefore my Erasmus, my relationship with social media was complicated. The apps I used the most were WhatsApp and Instagram, but they were becoming my worst enemy.Instagram was having an extremely negative impact on my life: it was disrupting my sleep, consuming my time, and affecting my self-esteem.My homepage was full of trivial, redundant content
Not a “goodbye”, a “see you soon”…
Student lifeJuly is already well underway and that means that I only have a few days left here in Munich at the IfKW as a student. Time for me to start saying goodbye to this city and the people I have met here, whom I now consider my friends. If I had to choose one word
How did they do it before?
City life . Society . Student lifeThree months here and dozens of Instagram stories, hundreds of Snapchats sent, FaceTime calls galore, Whatsapp groups for anything and everything… I don’t think you can say that my semester would have been the same without social media. But at the same time, since it became a huge part of our lives, nothing is the
In between dreams and disillusionments – visions of jobs
Student lifeLast week, my friend and I got invested in a conversation with the guys sitting next to us on the train from Nuremberg to Munich. Indeed, our chat was so interesting that it lasted for the full two-hour ride. The two guys were from Albania and Kosovo and, by chance, they are also studying at