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"I am passionate about tutoring students from abroad!"
Image: Andreas Fischer"Studying abroad is a benefit in every respect: you get to know a different culture, improve your language skills and literally broaden your horizons. But the first time in another country is also a challenge. I know that from my own experience. In 2013, I left my hometown of Istanbul to study architecture in Kassel. Here I was suddenly left to my own devices, having to find my way around the university and a foreign country at the same time. Finding a place to live also proved to be difficult.
That's precisely why it's important to me to accompany students from abroad as a tutor. Since 2016, I have been working in the Welcome Centre of the International Office - a point of contact for all those coming to the University of Kassel from abroad, whether for an exchange semester or for a full course of study. Among other things, our team organizes the orientation weeks for foreign students and other events, helps with making contacts, and is the contact person when it comes to everyday questions about studying. How do I find accommodation? How do I open a bank account, and can I take on a part-time job? These are typical questions that newcomers have. If we don't have the answers ourselves, we'll be happy to put you in touch with other counseling centers. For me, it goes without saying that I am there to help and advise international students not only at the Welcome Center, but also at any time and anywhere on campus.
Kassel has long since become my home. In addition to architecture, I now also study urban and regional planning and, more recently, fine arts at the art academy. Combining these subjects may seem unusual at first. But it is precisely this interdisciplinarity that is a great strength of the University of Kassel. On the university campus, I often encountered a saying by the women's rights activist Hedwig Dohm that still accompanies me in my decisions today: 'Don't think it has to be that way because it is and always has been that way.' It's important to find your own way."