“Our goal is to become a reference for everyone who needs a training course”
Society . Student life . UncategorizedThis is the goal of Appcademos, a new training course search platform founded by three spanish students. Nacho Campomanes (partner of Appcademos) talks about his experience as a young entrepreneur and the creating process of a Startup. What led you to the idea of wanting to undertake an adventure such as creating a new Startup? I
The journey to freedom as a boat person
Culture . Politics . Society . UncategorizedThe reunification of Vietnam in 1975 is portrayed by Vietnamese history books as a joint effort of the population in fighting against Western power to regain control of their country. However, Paul Nguyen has a very different idea: “Well, they don’t teach proper history in Vietnam anymore.” Paul, now 57, was born and raised in
Back to School: A Voice for the Immigrants
Politics . Society . UncategorizedSaturday, May 18th, 2019 Piazza Duomo in Milan is crowded and loud. Hundreds of people gathered to witness Italian vice prime minister and politicial Matteo Salvini presenting his dicriminatory and aggressive political propaganda based on nationalism and the exclusion of migrants. As it might be easy to infer, I am not pleased to see so many people supporting a neo fascist
Limitless possibilities
Culture . Media . UncategorizedArt is often regarded as an innate ability you either have it or you don’t. Art is also ever-evolving with designing and illustration morphing from pen and paper to tablet. Today, we hear from Sam, who has a keen interest in digital illustration. Sam is largely self-taught and shares how he has come to discover
About my Finnish friend.
Culture . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedWhen I was told that for this blog post we had to conduct an interview, the first person that crossed my mind was my friend Konsta. The reason behind my decision was the fact that Konsta and I are very different. Coming from different countries (even continents) and cultures, our friendship emerged when we met
Is there a stereotypical opera singer?
Culture . UncategorizedThere are lots of presumptions around most topics, but I think there are few topics with more presumptions surrounding them than opera singers and classical music. Opera singers can be stereotyped as everything from very quiet and conservative to flamboyant and confident. I admit that I have been guilty of holding the preconception of opera
Home away from home?
Society . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedSo, this is a topic that’s close to home (quite literally), and so I thought it would be interesting to interview others with similar upbringings and see if anything differed to how I felt. I met Catherine through one of the “meet and greet” events here in Munich. Upon meeting, I would never have thought
Not like any other part-time Job
City life . Health . Society . UncategorizedImagine waking up in the morning and not being able to see how the weather is, not being able to check the latest Instagram posts and not being able to read the newspaper in the morning. This is the everyday life over 37 million blind people and over 120 million partially sighted people worldwide. Of course,
Bing Yi, the Travelling Photographer
Culture . Student life . Travel . UncategorizedBing Yi is an economics student from Shanghai, here in Munich on exchange for one semester. When she came to Munich, it was the first time she had ever visited Europe and she was excited to explore the places offered here in Germany, as well as further abroad. When we met on an excursion to
FAKE NEWS: An Opinion of a Citizen
Media . Politics . Society . Uncategorized” Fake news are news or pronouncements, that are disguised as facts, but they have the purpose to influence people’s opinions in a certain direction” This is what fake news is for German history student, Roberta. I have asked her to meet me in the faculty of History of Munich – a place she is