Hello everyone and welcome to my very first post for DAADblog! I am a RISE intern and my host institution is the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, or the German Cancer Research Centre, in Heidelberg. I am living in what is essentially the science campus, Im Neuenheimer Feld; this is filled with university, federal and state research and [...]

Research is a cut throat domain where excellence and hard work are essential to succeed. But to succeed in life you need balance between yourself, social life and work. That is why our lab presses on the fact that research is not all about science. I had noticed during our lunch break that research was [...]

On my last post I talked about how to start planning if you want to study in Germany. It was mostly about how to use information like deadlines, requirements and information on selection processes to create a plan that is useful for you. Now I would like to talk about how to put that in [...]

…when there’s science to do. In case you didn’t catch the reference, the title of this entry comes from the end credits to the video game “Portal”, which I actually have not played.  The line is part of the song “Still Alive,” which I know thanks to my roommate from my home university.  Anyways, I [...]

Some people don’t like planning; others can’t go to sleep without knowing exactly what’s going to happen the next day. But when you want to move to another country to study there for some months or a longer period, most people would agree that some level of planning is necessary. Maybe the first thing to [...]

Last week I was at the WISE 2011 scholars meet in the capital city. WISE stands for Working Internships in Science and Engineering. Its a special fellowship of the DAAD extended to the bachelor students of India to pursue a summer research internship under direct supervision of a host professor in his/her research group at [...]

Reading about how to apply for the Master, I soon realized that I was probably going to apply via uni-assist. Uni-assist is a German service that assists international students while applying for a university program in Germany. Not all German universities use uni-assist, but many do. So if you are a foreign student, have earned [...]

Two weeks ago I really got busy during the holiday and the following days because I had my simulation test for the TestDaF and at the same time a big design event was happening in town called DMY. The holiday was really on Thursday and on this day I went for the first time to [...]

Another thing that worried me as I made my plans was how I was going to pay for living costs while studying in Germany. As a foreign student from outside the European Union I would only be allowed to work for a certain number of hours per week (read more about this here) and this [...]

Last week I started with the 4 month Intensive German Language course which is a part of my DAAD Fellowship. I am enrolled at the DID Deutsch Institute in Frankfurt which is one of the leading Language schools around. It is located in a very pleasant neighborhood in Sachsenhausen district of south Frankfurt very close [...]