A series of blog posts while I am a student at OVGU (the University of Magdeburg).
If you are a new student at OVGU/DKE or an aspiring one, you might be interested in the posts made in this category!
But first, take a look at the incoming page for the students of computer science here.
In this section, you will find blog posts that would tell you more about how I have spent my time in Magdeburg, specific experiences and advice.
Some noteworthy experiences that make me eligible to speak about things:
I’ve worked as a student at:
I did not really realize how quickly one year passed since I wrote this post! While the struggle to complete my never-ending last 6 credits is real even now, I started with my thesis at the [Read more...]
How often do we, Indians, associate "foreign" with chilly winters and a lot of snow? I guess, pretty often. Maybe because we are conditioned by movies or by stories of our relatives who live abroad. I [Read more...]
Many of my friends, who are not well acquainted with doing masters in Germany, wonder why the programs, which are of 4 semesters, in theory, extend slightly beyond the time frame.. and in my case, by [Read more...]
[Unlike this, and this, this blog post is a very personal note.] The moment you think you have a hold over life, life laughs back at you. “Gotcha!”. After this incident, I was trying to [Read more...]
It was during the time of the US President’s India visit, the German media and my social media newsfeed were rife with news and awareness campaigns about Coronavirus. Not that they did not know about [Read more...]
Contributors: Anirban Saha, Chirag Mandal, Indranil Maji. In the previous blog post, we explored the data related to covid19 infected cases in Saxony-Anhalt with respect to the rest [Read more...]
Before the first case in Saxony-Anhalt was reported, there was an awareness about the novel Coronavirus in Germany. The first case of a covid19 patient in Germany was reported on February 15, 2020. [Read more...]
At the university, a student can either become a tutor or a HiWi (Hilfswissenschaftler (student assistant)). As a mentor, I receive queries related to HiWi jobs (& tutoring jobs) and I would turn [Read more...]
This is a sequel to this blog post! ..and in this blog post, we try to explore what more you can do beyond normal studies in the university, once you are in Magdeburg. I write this blog post as a [Read more...]
Plagiarism is not just ripping off someone’s work without crediting them, as most international students would like to believe. It is slightly more. It’s one of the major academic misconduct and most [Read more...]