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 [...]

Shamefully I apologize for not writing much during the last weeks on the blog. Between academic writings and papers, voluntary work and social activities life didn’t actually break but I sailed along. I’d be honest and say that I am quite glad as there have been a lot of things happening during this period, thus I have [...]

This week I received the results for the TestDaF I had taken in April. Unfortunately, I still couldn’t reach the grade I needed in order to study at a Master’s course. The TestDaF basically certificates three different levels: TDN 3, 4 and 5; five being the highest. To study at the Master’s courses in which [...]

As I said before, finding the pages of the courses that might interest me in the universities’ websites was an important step, since it helped me organize how I was going to prepare myself knowing what was necessary to be admitted at a Masters Course in Germany. One of these courses was the “Allgemeine und [...]

Just some weeks after I had come back from Berlin I heard there was going to be a fair in the Goethe Institut São Paulo called “Study and Research in Germany 2009”. I thought it was a funny coincidence that this was going to happen precisely after I had come back, so I decided to [...]

Yesterday was one of those days that we wake up and the day turns to be perfect.  First the day was really beautiful, so sunny and warm. Then I had a meeting with a friend to join a guided tour to a museum, which was made for the design master students of the Anhalt Hochschule [...]

It’s seven days to go, and what better way to start blogging as I am eagerly counting down time to board the plane to Germany! I am going to TU Dortmund for a two months summer project as a DAAD WISE (Working Internships in Science and Engineering) scholar from IIT Madras, Chennai, India. (In the [...]