BLUG

Blog of the University of Göttingen

Hello and welcome to the new blog of the University of Göttingen. Here we offer you information, insights and stories about the Georg-August-Universität.

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Queen of Göttingen

Drag has fascintated me ever since I stumbled into a free show by Drag Queen Taylor Mac in New York’s Prospect Park during a…

Archive

The lap dog secret

The Actually Real Story of the Pug Order A small dog, a secret lodge, the university of Goettingen – don’t belong together? Actually, they…

The Internship Guide

When I decided to go for my first internship as a naive third semester student, I had many questions: How many will be useful?…

The WG Life

Of the four semesters I’ve spent studying in Germany, I’ve moved into four different apartments. Why, you ask? I have no good reason for…

5 top tips for studying digitally

I can’t hear it anymore, but there’s also no way of ignoring it: Corona significantly changed our everyday lives. For us as students, who…

Online systems – the top 5 tips

When I first started studying in Göttingen in 2014, I was overwhelmed with all the new information. Those are my login details for this…

BlugBQ

Barbecuing is one of the most popular activities in Germany: 97% of people here say they love to grill. But BBQs can get boring…

Comprehensive learning

During my studies, I’ve probably spent most of my time with attempts to memorize entire sentences that I had previously copied from books and…

Learning with Loci

I used to be pretty good at learning something by heart. Poems, dates, citrate cycle – no problem during school. Now, having almost completed…

The “Project List”

As a student, life is super easy and relaxed – or at least that is how many non-students imagine student life to be. Of…

How well do you know Göttingen?

Stressed and exhausted by all the studying and writing papers? Want to get a little distraction and test your knowledge of our favorite city?…

Gratitude Journal

By now we’re all well aware of just how deeply the coronavirus pandemic has permeated into our lives. If there is one thing we’ve…

Please do not disturb!

Not only has the Corona pandemic turned the world upside down, but also our private lives. The digital semester demands students to adapt to…

Discovering in passing by

The door falls into the lock behind me, rays of sunlight tickle the tip of my nose, a deep breath, a light breeze –…

Get involved – the top 5 tips

During the first few weeks at university there are numerous new impressions coming your way – I know what I’m talking about! To make…

Digital Orientation – the Top 5 links

This semester is different. More digital, more mobile, more exhausting, more comfortable, more annoying, more relaxed, more complicated… It’s just different. Starting your studies…

Little puncture, huge contribution

Actually, this would be a video of our collective blood donation experience by the BLUG-Team (#BLUGSpende). Instead, because of Corona (which by now feels…

Mysteries of the Campus WiFi

You are doing it, I am doing it, and pretty much everybody else on campus is doing it, too: Surfing the world wide web…