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- Hi, I'm Thomas, I study in Munich,
I study on the one hand at
the University of Munich,
Political Science, and on the other hand
I study at the Technical
University of Munich,
Management and Technology.
The reason is that I'm always fascinated
by this intersection of new technology,
new business models, and policy,
how these three poles
interact with each other.
That's why I study Political Science
and Management and Technology.
And the reason why I study
this at these two universities
here in Munich is, on the one hand,
these two universities are
like the top in Germany,
it's great to be here with
amazing professors and students,
on the other hand, it's
great that we have this
very scientific and research-oriented,
old University of Munich,
over 500 years old,
one of the oldest
universities in the world,
and on the other hand, we have
the Technical University of Munich
which is superbly connected to industry,
to big tech companies, it's
like some of the biggest tech
and automotive companies in the world,
all based here in Munich.
So this connection of these
two top-notch universities
combined with the incredible
quality of life here in Munich
with it's beer halls and
the skiing possibilities
and the sailing possibilities,
it's just a really unique experience.
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So here we're in one of
my favorite libraries,
it's the State Library of Bavaria
and lots of students from
the University of Munich
as well as the Technical
University love going here,
it's fun to study chilling
beside Schiller, Goethe and Plato
We have to come here quite early because
it gets full really early in the morning.
I'm here with Kelly, my good
friend from Political Science,
we know each other for a year already
from Political Science
classes at the University
- Yes, I am American, I'm originally
from San Diego, California, and what
originally attracted me to
Munich, well Germany in general,
was just the attitude of the people,
I think that the people
here are so friendly
and they've a really
interesting outlook on society
and the environment,
and as a student here,
I have had really remarkable experiences
that surprisingly, are not that different
compared to my experiences
at an American university,
my professors and teachers
are really friendly
and engaging and really
interested in their research
as are my classmates, and I
have been fortunate enough
to have a lot of classes in English,
which has been really helpful.
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- So here you see bullet
holes in the University wall
and you also see a plaque
commemorating peace here.
You see these kind of
spots all over the city,
every time commemorating peace
and saying how important it is
that we as a people all over
the world, also in Europe
work peacefully together.
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- So now we're here on the
rooftop bar of the library.
It's really cool to just get a espresso
with this beautiful view
during a day of studying.
And from up here, you can
see how close everything is.
The two universities
of Munich, the big ones
are located in the city center
at the heart of the city.
You see that the other
University's over there,
lots of nice spots for
cafes are all around here,
libraries as well as museums
and places for art exhibitions
and also you can see over there, the Alps,
it's just like one hour
and then you can go skiing
and the lakes are also
just 20 minutes away
so the quality of life
is huge here in Munich.
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So we're here at the heart
of the University of Munich
beside the Memorial of the White Rose,
the White Rose was a group
of students and their friends
during the Nazi regime who
were fighting against it
and who threw pamphlets.
And in the pamphlets, they had
messages of Nazi resistance
that the students should
resist the Nazi regime.
Immediately afterwards,
Nazis came here, the police
and arrested them and they
were executed the next day.
We have the memorials set
here in the university
and it's also such that the street
in front of the university
is named after them
as well as the Political Science Institute
at which I study.
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For Political Science, this
university is very scientific
and research-oriented course
and so I would recommend this
as really good for people
who love diving deeply
into political and international affairs,
who want to go about
this very analytically
and have a very research-driven approach.
When you apply, there'll
probably be an entrance exam
for people who don't reach a certain level
and for this entrance exam, I recommend to
have a relaxed attitude
and to just read a bit
in the days and weeks before hand
about current political affairs,
about logic, about some statistics
and then you're good to go.
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Similarly, for Management and Technology
master at the Technical University,
for many people there's
also an entrance exam
besides the other criteria,
and for the entrance exam
it's an oral exam where
they test your personality
as well as your analytical thinking.
And I can very much recommend
studying Management and Technology
at the Technical University for anybody
who's really interested
in a very entrepreneurial,
handstand approach where
you have got a lot to do
with big tech companies,
you have a lot of seminars
and a lot of classes where you actually
go into the companies
where you even consult
big, leading worldwide companies,
where you have a great interaction
also with the professor.
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Now we're at Unternehmertum,
it's the entrepreneurial hub
of the TUM and I'd love
to introduce Gapriela
he studies Physics at TUM
and he will tell us about
the Hyperloop project
they were working on.
- So I'm from the Hyperloop team,
we have a student group here at TUM
that is building Hyperloop prototypes
for the SpaceX Hyperloop part competition,
a competition which is organized
by Elon Musk's company
SpaceX in California.
The competition is
about building prototype
of a futuristic transport
system that Elon Musk
proposed in 2013, the so called Hyperloop.
And the idea is to transport
people from one city
to the next at very high
speeds up to the speed of sound
which is over a thousand
kilometers per hour.
What we're building here
is a small prototype,
small capsules, Hyperloop pods
that tried to test and bring forward
the technology needed for
this transport system.
This capsule we built here in particular
is a small capsule we
have built with the idea
of trying to travel as fast as possible
in a tube that's base
is built in California.
This prototype over here
reached 324 kilometers per hour
for the second competition
and that allowed us to win it
and right now we're
working on a new prototype,
a third prototype here too that will
hopefully go even faster
and win the next competition
in summer 2018.
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So now we're going to Neis, a student cafe
directly opposite from University
to have a nice hot espresso,
the cool thing is they
also have poetry slams,
and concerts, and other
great cultural events.
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So for international students for example,
it's really great because there are lots
of international associations
at the Munich Universities,
where they go to Oktoberfest,
they go to beautiful sites
like Schloss Neuschwanstein,
you know the Disney castle,
you can go skiing, you
can just have a nice beer
like in this place, or you
can go to cocktail bars,
jazz bars, this city has crazy
amount leisure opportunities,
and it's a good way to
relax after the university.
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