Munich, You Were So Good to Me!
Germany . Student lifeSix months have flown by in the blink of an eye, and in just a month, I will be repacking my suitcase to go back home to Australia. What started as a Professional Communications subject, which I expected to be a “fluff” course, mostly consisting of field trips that filled up my ECTS, turned out
Final Blog Post: A Semester of New Experiences
Culture . ExcursionsMy first semester in Munich was enriched with new experiences that have made my time here unbelievably enjoyable. I first came here in September, so I got to experience those last bits of summer before the snowy winter came in. I got to explore this new city, appreciate the architecture and visit museums and various
Let Trans People Change Their Titles; This Is About Safety, Not “Special Rights”
Controversy . Opinion piece . SocietyThailand is known as a LGBTQ+ friendly country, and loves to market itself as that. BL couples being on a big billboard in the center of the city, pride flags are everywhere, and recently, same-sex marriage became reality. But one basic right is still being debated overwhelmingly like it’s something luxury. And that is allowing
Final Blog: What This Course Taught Me About Journalism and Myself
Authors . Media . Student lifeBefore this course, I tended to understand journalism as something only related to articles, news or online contents. I knew media was powerful, but never really aware how many layers existed behind what we consume everyday. This course completely shifted that for me, especially through the past field trips and real world exposure to different
Final Conclusions and Farewell
Authors . Student lifeLooking back at this course and the field trips we undertook, I realize that my understanding of professional journalism has become both more concrete and more complex. Through visits to media institutions, educational settings, and science communication spaces, journalism gradually turned into something live and practiced. One of the strongest impressions came from visiting Bayerischer
America is pushing the world into China’s embrace
Authors . Opinion pieceAmerica’s flip-flop attitudes and bullying of its European allies have increasingly pushed the world into China’s embrace. Earlier this month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a striking warning in Davos. “Every day,” he noted, “we are reminded that we live in an era of great-power rivalry, that the rules-based international order is fading, that
Journalism as a Public Service: Final reflections on my Professional Communication course
Media . SocietyHey everyone! As this semester is slowly coming to an end, I thought it would be a good moment to look back on what I have learned in my Professional Communication course at LMU Munich. This class was not just about writing a few blog posts. For me, it became a real introduction into the
Deutches Museum: Communicating a Message
Culture . ExcursionsI found our trip to Deutsches Museum unexpectedly enjoyable. The tour that we took was very different from what I had imagined. I assumed the tour was going to be about the technology that is used in the journalism field however I found the tour being about how the museum communicates messages to the public
Visiting the Deutsches Museum — A Journey Through Science, Technology, and History
Germany . ScienceDuring my visit to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, I was struck by how this institution goes beyond simply displaying objects — it shows the unfolding story of scientific research and technological development. Founded in 1903 by Oskar von Miller, the Deutsches Museum was established with the mission to promote scientific research and public understanding of science and technology. Today,
Media School Bayern: What It Really Means to Learn Media by Doing
Media . Media influenceVisiting Media School Bayern was not just a field trip — it felt like stepping into a real, working media organization. Before going in, I unconsciously imagined something very “academic”: classes, assignments, maybe some simulated projects. But what I encountered was much closer to a newsroom and a production studio than to a traditional classroom.