One Exam After Another
InterviewIn China, candidates sometimes call their first attempt at the graduate entrance exam their ‘first battle’. A retake is their ‘second battle’. For Carl, it was one battle after another. The physics graduate from Hunan, a province in southern China, left a management programme in Shanghai after about two months to try again for a
A new adventure
AuthorsHi, my name is Feline, I’m 21 years old, and I’m an exchange student from the Netherlands, more specifically from Utrecht! I’m in Munich for the winter semester as part of my minor. At my home university, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, I’m studying Creative Business. This bachelor’s programme trains you to become a
Learn with AI, Live with AI
InterviewChatGPT, Claude, Gemini…students nowadays are quite familiar with these names. But how do students learn with AI, and how to apply AI in a reasonable way? To answer these questions, I interviewed Andres Rivera, a senior student from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), majoring in psychological field. He is going on an exchange semester
Not only one solution
Interview . Journalistic WritingI interviewed Anne, who is a German student at LMU. Her major is education. I met her for the first time when she became my buddy last September. She is interested in Japan and uses a PC with a Japanese keyboard. I was surprised because I had never met German people who used one. So,
Beyond Buildings: Rethinking Architecture in Weimar
InterviewKim Jimin is a friend I first met in high school. Like many Korean students, we spent most of our school years focused on getting good grades. But during her second year of high school, Jimin discovered a passion for architecture and started studying it on her own. Her dedication eventually led her to pursue
The Sunny Side of Life: hey sunny are on a mission to spread positivity and make you smile.
Culture & Music . InterviewWhat started as a casual, fun hobby for Sunny and Marty, the Munich-based couple behind the indie-pop-folk duo hey sunny, shifted their lives in an unexpected direction. Their journey began in 2015 during a trip to Australia, where casual living-room jams turned into busking on the Melbourne city streets. By 2020, they had transitioned into
The german experience
AuthorsMy name is Giulia, I’m from a small town located in the region of Trentino, in the north of italy. All my life, all I ever heard about german is that it’s awful and hard to learn. I started learning it when I was six, and I have suffered all the 11 years in which
What I’ve been up to….
UncategorizedHello my name is Hannah, I’m an exchange student from Australia. I grew up in Sydney all my life and I wanted to have a change of scenery. I never left Australia before and haven’t lived on my own too. It was my first time really adulting since I decided to choose Munich as part
Self introduction
AuthorsHello everyone, my name is Risa and I’m an exchange student from Japan. I’ll study here for a year. I’ve just arrived Munich last month ago. I live in student’s dommitory now. In Japan, I live in Chiba which is near Tokyo in Japan. I can go to Tokyo Disney land in 30 minutes from
Living Abroad for the First Time
AuthorsOriginally from Japan Hallo! My name is Moka, I’m 20 years old from Fukuoka, Japan. I’m still nervous to live here since I arrived in Munich last week, and this is the first time I’ve gone abroad, except for a trip to Korea. Despite that, I already enjoy the atmosphere of Munich. My major in