TUMstudinews: The Newsletter for Students

The PREP program, organized by the TUM International Center, enables students from North American elite universities to participate in a research project at TUM and to get to know Munich and Germany during the summer holidays. Sarah Barreto Ornellas, a student at Yale, is one of this year’s participants in PREP. What did she experience at TUM and in Munich so far?

Four more weeks until South Africa: Matthias Schmidt will take part at the World Canoe Marathon Championships in early September 2017. He has been a member of the German national canoe team since May. The sport is very time-intensive. Nevertheless, the 21-year-old is studying Chemical Process Engineering at TUM and got involved with the IKOM – without any problems.

TUM student Laura Grasemann (25) is Germany’s best mogul skier – and she is a candidate for the title “Sports Scholarship Holder of the Year”, which would mean additional financial support for her. In our interview, she explains why she could need it. Vote for Laura!

The aim of the “AK Umwelt” in Straubing is to promote environmental awareness at the site TUM-Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and sustainability. For TUMstudinews, Celine Sauer, a member of the working group, talks about their point of view and what they want to change.

While his fellow students delved into theory in the lecture hall in Munich, Simon Lutz – a student of Environmental Engineering – went to India; his greatest adventure so far. For six months, he worked as an intern in Delhi and took part in an environmental project. For TUMstudinews, he talks about his time there, and about the challenges of a large-scale project on the Indian subcontinent.

The TUM offers an introductory online course for the basics of object-oriented programming in summer 2017 (in German language). The course starts on August 7. You can still register.

Theresa Bader wants to become an architect. Currently, she is in her fourth semester of the respective Bachelor’s course at TUM. When she had to decide about her future course of study, a mentor helped her while she was still at school. Now, she wants to show commitment as a mentor herself – in the scope of the Step Inside program.

In your first semester, were you surprised about what it’s like at university? Unintended surprises occur – and they can lead to great disappointments or to a change of course of study. For this reason, TUM initiated the program “visiTUM – students explain their course of studies”.

Help us pick twelve pictures for the 2018 photo calendar of the International Center! The online-voting has started.

Synthesis is a fundamental principle of our life. But in what contexts does synthesis lead to something that is meaningful and valuable? And, generally, is “no synthesis” possible at all – or is there something in the way of “anti-synthesis”? The current issue of fatum addresses these and other questions.