On the first of October, the time had finally come. For us two business students, the exciting everyday life at university began. There was a lot to experience and discover. In the following lines we both, Marie and Andreas, want to take you on our journey.
On 04.10.2022 we started with a welcome from the campus director Dr. Kim and the mayor of the city of Bad Mergentheim in the red hall in the castle of Bad Mergentheim. After the welcome we were introduced to the university and the city in our study programs. In the evening, we went to a party of the third semester students and were able to make first contacts with fellow students.
In the following days, the first lectures started for us dual students. Unlike the “normal” universities, which take more time for the introduction. This is especially due to the fact that we dual students have a tight schedule.
For the students of the “International Business” program, the first week of lectures began with lectures on the topic of scientific work, before things got underway towards the end of the week with business studies, intercultural management and economics. Some of the students already had lectures in Business Communication, while the people who have the subject in Spanish still have to wait for their lectures. We were also able to enjoy our first lectures in foreign languages in VWL/Economics. In all lectures, the professors were very nice, helpful and there was a positive learning atmosphere in the course. What we particularly liked was the fact that we were also allowed to do things ourselves in the lectures.
Although we started right away, we also found time to get to know the other students in our course as well as the other study programs at the freshman party. Thereby it became clear to us that we have to organize our time in Mergentheim ourselves if we want to have the fun like in big cities. Above all, this made it clear that we depend on each other.
In the “Digital Business Management” course, the first week began with three lectures in business administration and digital value creation at the Mittelstandszentrum. We quickly noticed that we are a somewhat unusual course: Our course consists of only 11 people, however, we see rather advantages in this. In the following week, we also had our first lectures in economics, law, financial accounting and digital business management, some of which took place in the castle. We were also allowed to present our first presentations in group work. I was positively surprised by the nice lecturers and fellow students. Of course, our course was also represented at the freshman party and made many new contacts.
All in all, it can be said that we both had a lot of fun in our first weeks at the DHBW, made our first contacts with fellow students and are looking forward to the remaining weeks.
