Life Doesn’t Take a Semester Break – Navigating My 1st Master’s Semester

Reading time: 18 minutes

Keys in my hand
The keys to my future?

LIFE STORIES My first master’s semester has a lot of surprises in store for me. So much is happening around me that I’m having a hard time focusing on my studies at all. Is it possible to be the star of a soap opera and understand relativistic quantum mechanics at the same time?

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The normal madness and the joys of cycling – semesters 5 & 6

Reading time: 22 minutes

Campus Neues Palais
Campus Neues Palais

LIFE STORIES Things can get pretty chaotic at university… #thenormalmadness. So it’s all the nicer to cycle home through beautiful Potsdam in the afternoon and simply switch off. Now you have time to read that book that’s been lying around on your desk for two weeks. Just a quick look at Instagram … oh, a new message! “I can’t manage the tasks for tomorrow. Could you take them over?”

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Semester 3 & 4 – Being on the same (Compton) Wavelength

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Happy into my third semester!

LIFE STORIES Two more semesters of university are done. And I have not only learned about incredible physical phenomena, but also understood what I am doing all this hard work for. Finding a good study-life balance is not easy, but luckily we are not alone in this study and always find someone on the same wavelength.

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