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It was through Skype - I wish I could afford a weekend trip to Munich! Questions were pretty much split into two major sections; firstly motivation and personal background. Second section was technical questions related to the area of the degree I applied to - very fundamental questions. Preparation and revision of the fundamentals will help, but the personal questions are nothing that you wouldn't expect.

Anything on TUMOnline? Good luck! I had my interview on Monday and interviewer said results will be given in a few weeks.

@princess My TUMOnline was just updated, and am moving forward to the interview round. Any news for you?

No word on ESOP as of yet for me. Nor have I received my admission letter in the mail yet. So much burning rage...

I will follow suit. At the time of writing, it has been 29 days (leap month) since receiving the acceptance email. Seeing people receive their acceptance letters by mail so quickly makes me feel extremely uneasy. The Australian postal system is horrid in every way imaginable, and it doesn't help that we're on the other side of the world. Program: Electrical Engineering and Information Technology M.Sc.Applied: November 1, 2015ESOP Interview: NoneAcceptance email: February 9, 2016Acceptance letter, by mail: ???ESOP Result: ???

Which continent (or if you wish to say, which country) do you live in?

To those who have received acceptance, have your letters arrived in the post yet? It's been 4 weeks for me and I haven't received mine yet. Considering the method I usually use to post documents overseas (the cheapest and slowest) takes around 2 weeks, which is pretty good by the horrible Australian standards, I'm feeling uneasy now.

I'm a big LaTeX enthusiast, and absolutely support and am happy to help with people who wish to learn it. It's been about 5 years since I started, and since then it's become my primary text editor (given up on Word). On my Mac, I use TeXShop as previously mentioned, but if you use your terminal, and have the MacTeX package installed, you can use the terminal to produce a pdf from a simple .tex file. Invoking it from the terminal allows for some easy automation tricks (such as when producing multiple files). For me, when I first started learning, it was just to make snippets of equations since they looked good, and slowly progressed to writing simple (math-based) homework exercises and assignments. This turned into course summaries, reports, a thesis and various other documents. My tip would be to start small, and grow your repertoire. I found that when I was stuck and didn't know how to do something, 90% of my issues could be found by simply Googling (as is the case for most problems in this era), and the remaining 10% from building on and/or modifying what I had already found before. It's a slow process, but just like with learning a new language (and relationships, ha...), as you integrate it into your life more and more you will begin to familiarise yourself and bulk up confidence. TL;DR: find excuses to use it. Then use it in some more places. Google if you don't know how to do something. Experiment further. LaTeX is beautiful, and so are you (for making the effort to learn it)!!

Waiting for EE as well.

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could give me any tips on writing a Letter of Recommendation for a student for grad applications. I co-supervised this student for a project. What sort of key things are admissions panels looking for? Thanks!

Oh lucky you, cut-offs for the CE program are 95/100 and 40/55 respectively. Regardless, hopefully that interview goes well. My gut feeling is it will be more of an affirmation of what you said in your statement of purpose and your background.

I'm looking forward to leaving Australia for Germany. I guess man wants what he can't have.

If you can afford Zurich, you're doing better than me already

Does the Informatics program require an interview? For my program, the early bird deadline was 15 March, so I feel they might still be waiting until then before they commence assessing. Furthermore, there's also an interview, so that needs to be scheduled too.

My surname starts with D and I was notified 3 weeks ago. But as mine was for EE, not sure if it helps with your sample points. Congratulations on acceptance to those who were! @rehab-robotics I thought you were going to Stuttgart for the Summer? What's the plan?