TUMstudinews: The Newsletter for Students

TUM is celebrating a very special birthday! What started off as a “Polytechnische Oberschule” in 1868 is now – 150 years later – to be seen as a player in the top league. Today, TUM is one of the best universities in Europe. The website www.150.tum.de offers exciting stories, all the important dates of the year, and information on how you can congratulate.

Lutz Klausmann is a student of Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science in his 4th Master’s semester. In March, he will accompany the biathlete Nico Messinger to the Paralympics in South Korea. In a telephone interview we did while he was at the World Cup in the Black Forest, he told us about his impressive hobby.

Philip Häusser leads a double life. He studied Physics and has recently submitted his doctoral thesis in the field of Computer Science at TUM. In his other life, Philip appears in scientific TV programs. A few weeks ago, the BR broadcasted his latest show “Gut zu wissen”.

For his Master’s thesis, Tilman Rüdiger spent three weeks in Nepal. In an interview with TUMstudinews reporter Sabrina Czechofsky, Tilman reports how he was able to combine work and leisure – and why he wouldn’t want to have missed this experience.

Hans Münstermann is head of the Scientific Glassblowers Workshop at the TUM Faculty of Chemistry. Recently, he traveled from Garching to Ethiopia to conduct a workshop on making glass apparatuses at the University of Addis Ababa. In an interview for TUMstudinews, Münstermann talked about what he experienced there – and how his field of profession is changing.

Are you in need of a laptop for your homework or a presentation? If so, you can borrow one from the AStA!

Surely, you already know Sync+Share, which can be described as a the Leibniz Computer Center’s adaption of “Dropbox”. With 50GB of storage, this service allows you to store data safely, to share it with other students, family, and friends, and to sync it across all your devices.

In autumn 2017, a very special steel structure was installed in the courtyard of the TUM’s Main Campus: the pavilion INSIDE/OUT. The name refers to the twisted shape, due to which the inside is turned outward.

“Täglich unter Männern” (“Among men every day”) is the working title of a web series that focuses on science. It was shot in autumn and winter 2017 at various locations of TUM and other sites in Munich. Currently, the team is doing post-production and editing.

Lovesickness, test anxiety, conflicts in the flat share… typical problems in student life – and the Munich Nightline listens if there’s nobody else who can lend an open ear. The phone service is run by students of all universities and scientific disciplines. They listen to their fellow students’ worries – anonymously, free of charge, and confidentially.