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- Hey guys, my name is Lisa Skager.
I'm a first semester student
at the University of Heidelberg,
University Clinic of Mannheim.
I usually wake up at around six o'clock in the morning,
have a joyful breakfast, then study for a bit, and then,
at about eight o'clock I go to Uni.
Each day we have about two lectures,
and at least one seminar.
Sometimes we'll also have practicals,
like physiology practical,
or like biochemistry practical, or histology.
At about four to five o'clock in the evening,
on long days, we finish at six o'clock in the evening,
I go back home, I change, and then I go for a run.
Or I go to the gym, because I'm, at the moment
at my training stage for a Frankfurt marathon.
And then I come back, I eat,
I study until about 11 o'clock at night,
and I go to sleep, completely, finished.
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What is obviously a bit ironic, is that,
there you have the graveyard,
and there you have the brewery.
So if it goes well, you can go and celebrate,
and if it doesn't, then, you know.
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So we're next to Alte Brauerei, or like Old Brewery,
which funny enough, was actually before a brewery.
And here we have most of our lectures and seminars,
and also like BX seminars, that's when we work with
real human parts for the purposes of
learning anatomy.
What I can say in general about all the professors and
all the lecturers and all the teachers,
is that you can feel that it is a very supportive
environment and they do not want you to fail but rather
they want you to do well in your state exam and
our year group is quite small
compared to other universities.
We are only 200 people and all of us are split into
seminar groups as well call them, and it's just twenty
people and those are the people you spend most of your
time with.
It's actually quite nice because you firstly get to know
them quite well and second of all it's kind of again a
very supportive environment where people help each other.
For example, right now we have an exam this coming Monday
and everyone's just sharing their tips, how to learn stuff
and I think it's nice because I know it doesn't happen
in every university.
Also what I find is really cool is that people from years
above help us a lot,
the younger students so to say to actually do well.
We have a website which is meant from students to students,
and there they share their tips,
what they can say about this specific professor,
what his main interests are or what he likes to ask,
and this helps a lot obviously and you feel supported and
you never really get into this panic mode from like the
amount of stuff you have to learn because you know there
are people who are older than you,
people who have already managed to tackle the whole
amount of information so you don't actually feel stressed,
which is quite nice.
So we're here on the Neckar riverbank and that's where
I normally run during the evenings and
actually normally I don't run here,
I run there but it's all very flooded at the moment so,
and if you run about 20 kilometers in this direction,
you will actually reach Hiedelberg and because we,
the University of Hiedelberg there are two clinics,
my clinic, the clinic of Mannheim,
and the clinic in Hiedelberg,
we always compete against each other because we have the
best results across Germany and
always each year it changes which of the two clinics
has the best of the best.
Right now, we have an exam on Monday but I think after that
we are planning to kinda have a small celebration that it's
over because we find out our results two to three hours
after the exam.
It's good in a way you know whether you screwed up or
like you're fine for the moment.
In terms of cultural life, Mannheim is actually quite good
in that because although it's not the prettiest city of
Germany there is lots going on
and also you are really close to Frankfurt,
you are close to the wine street,
which is like the most famous wine region of Germany and
it's very good for shopping and the nature is pretty.
You have two rivers so you can run through there,
you have a huge forest in that direction where I also
used to run when I had more time and
other than we have this huge annual marathon and
actually our student body pays the registration fees
if you run for the university,
if you wear the university t-shirt,
which I think is pretty cool.
We study in modules rather than subjects and that's why
it makes more sense because you study like this particular
area of the human body,
and each time we do stuff in lectures, it's just genuinely
like oh wow so this is why,
and I really like this feeling and
that's actually the reason why I started studying medicine
because genuinely it really interests me to get to know
why the human body is able to do those kind of things.
Mannheim clinic is particularly good for that because
they also try to bring us,
awaken the interest into science,
so we have actually a lot of opportunities.
Even from our first year we can work, or help out with
all the scientific projects that take place here.
All our teachers in seminars they tell us about their
research and what they do at the moment.
Also you can write your PHD either here or you can do it
in one of the partner schools.
I have a couple of my friends who actually went to America
after their fifth year to do a research project and then
they came back.
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