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  1. Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me out! I'm planning to go to Germany later this year and I have a question about health insurance for international students there. As far as I understand, there are two types of health insurance one can get in Germany: Public health insurance Private health insurance Also, if a student opts to take a private health insurance, they can't switch back to the public one throughout their studies (is this information correct?). The private ones seem to be significantly cheaper, but I am a little worried about going for the private one because I have heard that employers do not let students with a private health insurance work for them or intern for them. An internship is an important part of my planned studies so I'm really worried that it would be a problem. Does anyone else have experience with this in Germany or any other European country with similar rules? TL;DR: I have heard that students with private health insurance are not allowed to work or intern in Germany, is that true?
  2. [Disclaimer: I have yet to give the GRE exam, as it is not required in the places I've applied to so far. I do however, help students/undergrad students/newsletter writers/etc in essay writing from time to time.] A few typos: Para#1: "Technology that one helped us meet...." should've been "Technology that once helped us meet...." Para#2: "A python programmer 10 years down the line..." Para#2: "... make important decisions on a regular." There seems to be some missing text at the end there, perhaps you meant: "... make important decisions on a regular basis." Para#3: "..professions such being a Youtuber.." add "as", so it becomes: "..professions such as being a Youtuber.." A few more suggested changes: Para#3: "Statistics show the drastic shift in the number of teenagers choosing ‘easy’ professions such being a Youtuber or a TikTok creator over professions in science and technology." Maybe change "shift" to "increase" for a clearer sentence, as in: "Statistics show the drastic increase in the number of teenagers choosing ‘easy’ professions such being a Youtuber or a TikTok creator over professions in science and technology." Para#3: "All the discoveries we read about today are mostly a by-product of years of turmoil.." I think you were aiming for the meaning of the word "toil" here (which means "work extremely hard or incessantly"), and not "turmoil" (which means "disorder, chaos"), but I could be wrong. Generally, I think "toil" would make more sense here: "All the discoveries we read about today are mostly a by-product of years of toil.." Para#2: "This is another strong example inferring that we, as adaptive creatures have a high probability of losing our analytical and logical skills that are otherwise required to make important decisions on a regular." I think "inferring" should be replaced with a verb like "implying" (because "inferring" means "to deduce"): "This is another strong example implying that we, as adaptive creatures have a high probability....". These are all just minor nit-pickings! + Your 1st argument is really interesting and I liked the addition of the evolutionary aspect to it! Best of luck with your application, and sorry if I have made any mistakes in my suggestions/corrections! I hope a more experienced forum member replies soon as I think they'd be of more help to you.
  3. Thank you for the informative post! This was really useful to read! I am planning to do a masters degree in something similar, and RWTH Aachen is one of the universities I'm really interested in. However, they have a requirement in most of the masters courses that the applicant's bachelors should have been in something related. Do you have any idea how stringent this requirement is? Did you fulfill this requirement when you were accepted? I'm really concerned about this because I am trying to do a pretty drastic career shift. My bachelors degree was in petroleum engineering, and contained nearly zero courses in programming or computer sciences. (I've made up the difference through self-study during the pandemic, but I have no formal proof of my skills). Does that kill my chances at RWTH Aachen? + One more question: How are the career prospects after studying Simulation Sciences? Do you have any ideas about Data Science?
  4. Hey there, I am still new to the GradCafe, and I haven't applied to TU Munich, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. What I know is that any gaps in the CV are kept in the same work experience section, with a brief explanation for the reason for the gap written in place. I also have a pretty significant gap in my CV due to circumstances out of my control, and I haven't been able to come up with a way to summarize them in a CV that would sound both honest and not tragic (as they are, tbh). It's a frustrating task. May I ask, do you have any industrial experience? As it seems that TU Munich masters programs require at least 2 years of experience, IIRC. How stringent is this requirement? Are you applying without it? Best of luck with your application!
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