Week in My Life as an International Student in Germany | Engineering at RWTH

Good morning! I'm on my way to the office. I'm gonna go work obviously but it seems like it's a Monday, it's the start of the week and it's such good weather outside. I was like, let me just like go actually to the Research Institute and work there instead of home office. So that's what I'm going to be doing. I got myself a protein bar as a treat and as a somewhat breakfast. I hope this one is actually yummy though because it was kind of expensive I'm not gonna lie but I mean like it has a lot of protein so it's 16 grams. So yep that was a fail and I think everyone is on lunch break so I can't even like text my supervisor to open the door for me for like the room for student assistants. I should have scheduled an appointment with her like the lady who gives out the keys that's my bad. I wanted to chill a little a little bit in this like stone chair and the weather is so nice and it's so green here. That's my office in the back like the building in the back and has this insane view. I should come out here and work more but I like the comfort of my home so I always like ditch going to the office and do home office instead. I wanted to chill a and figure out where I need to work. I mean I don't like it but I don't hate it I don't think this is like the worst bar I've ever tried. So I never mentioned this before to you guys but I work as a student assistant in research. I'm a university like at a research institute here at RWTH Aachen and honestly it's so cool it's it's actually amazing that I get to be part of the team who works on actual freaking research and actual research projects. That is insane. Yeah what I do is basically code, simulate and like analyze a bunch of stuff. They obviously give me like baby tasks not like actual real hardcore research tasks because like I'm still a student but it's really really cool to actually like use the things that we study in a practical setting and actually like use it on actual research. That is crazy. That is whoa and I love it here in my office. I love the view and there's a bunch of I think a couple of types of EVs. You can work in research, you can work in tutoring and help teach some subjects. You can also help with organization and like organizing exam sheets and being a supervisor at exams like halls and stuff and such a cool experience. I honestly encourage everyone who has the chance to work as a EV to actually do it any honestly any type and the thing is at every like every course you take there's like a Research Institute funding or not funding but like making that course for you and if you like that course and the contents of it you can just like email them and ask if they have like a EV job and EV position and you can just like start practicing that course it's so amazing. I cooked this you guys. This is noodles. Rice noodles with mushrooms and shrimp. The sauce is made of peanut butter, sriracha, soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce. Good morning you guys. Today is a Wednesday. It's currently 1230. I woke up a little later today so it's gonna be mainly a work from home situation. Well I'm not working I'm studying and I'm doing a bunch of stuff. You know what let me tell you what do what we have on the agenda today. So I have a meeting for my project work. I need to prep for that. I think 90% of the work is already done. I just need to complete the remaining 10% go through my ideas and yeah my stuff written here. We're gonna have like a meeting with my group without our supervisor to like discuss things we did and then we're gonna have a meeting with the supervisor. Second thing I need to do today is edit for my student association thingy which I don't think I ever talked about that either but I'm basically part of a student organization called TUNEVY which is like a Tunisian student association. It like welcomes also non-students but it's mainly like affiliated with the university and stuff. I am part of the media team. Duh. We do a lot of cool stuff actually especially the media team. I love the media team so much. If you're like Tunisian I mean like if you're not Tunisian I think you're also welcome but you are in Aachen join it it's so fun the media team it's so fun for example last week I think the week before we filmed a teaser for our upcoming event on the on June the 20th it's called Info Wochenende which is like an event basically called Info Weekend where we bring so many Tunisian students who study at multiple like majors and you get to ask them questions and you just like you can network you can make friends there we're gonna be having like guests who already graduated from our university they're gonna be like interviews I think also workshops you can like check the teaser like all the information it'll be out like when this video is out probably like this will video will be out after the event honestly cuz like I'm a slow editor when it comes to my youtube channel but basically we filmed we spent the entire day in the collective incubator and we were filming the teaser I started in it I acted this is my acting debut I played the role of a character who is super super stressed I think for like a really anxious person it was really bad performance I looked at the clips and I cringed so bad my friend who's like the chef of like the media team showed me yesterday like the end result it's just like missing like voiceovers and a couple of things but like the main videos there and I couldn't so bad I'm gonna look so funny it's like really well done but like my parts I I don't know also you can see my acne in there anyways that's it besides the point but it was so fun we were using like his profession camp professional camera it was so cool like I said like debuted in my acting career we used a lot of like filming techniques so cool cool but what I have to edit right now is not that we actually do a podcast where we invite students who Tunisian students who study again multiple majors and then we ask them questions not me like it's not my job but like some questions about their majors about potential things young Tunisians who are coming to study in Germany might ask and I'm in charge of editing the reels to that so for every podcast video I take out three reels I get them out I subtitles post them on all platforms and stuff and that's what I need to be doing today and last but not least I need to study I need to study prep for the meeting first edit at my meeting got 330 till 430 probably go out of the house maybe like eat something first but then go out of the house go to the library and study I'm going super late to the library it's almost 11 I hope I find a spot I'm seriously having trouble sleeping this is my second or third night in a row I might be considering taking my lunch and in post tomorrow but I'm so happy I prepped everything I need it's just that it's late I mean it's a holiday so it's good to have prepped everything but I'm also like weirdly having cramps and nauseous not nausea lightheadedness in the morning it's not my period it's not around my period normally so I don't know what's going on I'm a little tired so I'll just go have my breakfast my sandwiches this is a good iced coffee yeah also on Saturday there's like a kpop random play dance in front of my university which is super cool and I'm so excited for that so I've been like blasting kpop in my playlists every day because I'm so excited