Category: Engineering in Bochum

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu.   It is true, sometimes study abroad experiences have a reputation of being more focused on “partying” than studying, despite the fact that they are primarily meant to provide a more global academic experience. It ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Europe is very serious about its football. Since one of the big teams (Dortmund) are very close to where I’m staying, some students and I decided to go to a Dortmund bar to watch a ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. This past weekend, two other students and I decided to take advantage of the 4-day weekend and travel outside of Germany. Belgium and the Netherlands are fairly close, so we decided to go to do ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. This past weekend a few of us decided to take full advantage of a four day Easter weekend and took the trip to Berlin. By the time we decided to plan this trip, train and ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Berlin Bochum is in a central position in Europe in my opinion, by being in a more or less equidistant from many great cities including Paris, London, Vienna, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and of course Berlin, the ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Well after spending two full weeks and 3 weekends here, I am pretty sure that most of the culture shock and major international differences have made themselves known. Nothing is too extreme, but just a ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu.   Here I would like to write a simple outline of my daily routine at RUB, so one can get the impression of what it is really like to live here, including all the trivialities ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. We did not wait very long very deciding to explore Germany. Saturday morning, our first full day here, we all went to Cologne with my roommate. It was very simple to get there. With the ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. This week, one of the other Drexel students and I decided to do our laundry. I guess a more accurate term would be to “try” to do it. In the dorms, you have to use ...

Please note that this is a retired Drexel study abroad program. To learn more about available programs, contact Drexel Global studyabroad@drexel.edu. Although it is fun to go out to eat, one of the Drexel students and I decided it would be much cheaper and healthier to cook our own meals. We’ve been going to the supermarket ...