Sometimes all you need is someone to believe in you
Interview . SocietyIn a society that often measures people by their successes or failures, it is easy to turn away from those who stumble and lose their way. Those who face addiction, trauma, or emotional breakdowns are rarely given room to rise again and often gets marginalized and forgotten. Yet some people choose to walk towards them
From Le Cordon Bleu to The Screen: Obey Punnavich’s Unexpected Acting Path
InterviewI’ve known Obey Punnavich since high school, back when most of us didn’t really know what we wanted to do with our lives. Most Thai students, including me, went straight to university. But Obey took a completely different path. Now, we are seeing him on the screen of the new Thai series “Taste”, and that’s
【Interview】From Shanghai Buzz to Delft Breeze: My Best Friend Yan’s Exchange Adventures
City life . Interview . Student lifeWhen I think of friendships that brighten my life, Yan is always the first person who comes to mind. We met during the stressful months of preparing for our postgraduate entrance exams, supporting each other through countless long nights of studying. Now she is experiencing a completely different kind of life as a graduate exchange
Analysing Irish Women’s Place in History
InterviewAoibhín Ní Gleasain won a Global Graduate award for an essay she wrote about The Mother and Child Scheme in Ireland which was failed to be implemented. It is an interesting topic so I decided to interview her on her interest in History and her essay. GOH: Could You explain briefly what your project was
Starting over on a new continent: Marina’s journey
Authors . InterviewIn an apartment in the northern part of Munich, I meet Marina Barbosa, my 25-year-old Brazilian friend. At 22, she experienced a burnout during her demanding full-time job in São Paulo, leaving her exhausted and questioning her life. Seeking a fresh start, she travelled almost 10,000 kilometers to work as an au pair in Munich.
Being a Dream Breaker – to the Next Chapter
Interview . Night lifeWhat’s your dream? Is there a goal you want to achieve? Here is the girl after her dream came true. This is the story of Woojin Kim, who got a job as a nurse right after graduating from university and has been working at a hospital in the city for about two years. We will
Impressive MSCL
UncategorizedI’m glad to share some reflections with all of you from our recent session exploring the work of the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL), a class that left me thinking deeply about what it truly means to communicate science in a changing world. We had the chance to meet with Bernhard Goodwin, the executive director
My Impression of Bayerische Rundfund
UncategorizedFounded in 1929, BR has lived through Germany’s most turbulent times, from Nazi control in 1933 to its rebirth as a public broadcaster in 1949. What interested me most was the idea of independence through public support. Our guide repeated several times that BR is not a government institution. Every German household pays around twenty
Xiong’s here!
Authors . Student lifeHello dear all! I’m Xiong Run, a bachelor’s student majoring in International Journalism at Renmin University of China. German is my second foreign language, and I’d like to get more practice with it during my exchange semester. Besides, I’m basically here for cars, beer, and football, the specialties of Germany, huh? I’m a huge fan
The Power of Communication in Science: Lessons from the MSCL
Authors . City life . Climate Change . Culture . Excursions . Germany . Health . Media . Opinion piece . Research@IfKW . Science . UncategorizedSometimes, learning doesn’t happen in a lab or on a field trip it happens in a classroom, when someone manages to connect science to real life. That’s exactly what happened during our session with Bernhard Goodwin, executive director of the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL). I’ll admit, before that day I had never heard of