u/Hexagoneye

Hi everyone,

I’m moving to Frankfurt for my studies and am currently looking for an apartment.

For some of the places I’ve visited, I’ve been told that crime is relatively high in that district. However, their building is right on the border with a safer district.

On internet, I’ve mostly found statistics for Frankfurt as a whole or specifically for the Hauptbahnhof.

Does anyone know where I can find reliable crime statistics broken down by individual districts or smaller areas of Frankfurt?

Thanks!

Non-eu citizen here. Long story short I had a small debt for Lebara that I couldn’t pay because I was out of the country and the mails went to spam folder. now Lebara says they transferred the debt to Cannock collection agency and they will contact me.

But they haven’t contacted me yet in 2 months. Should I contact them? my debt was superficial (3€) so maybe they deleted my debt? Does anyone know about this?

Hi everyone,
I’ll be arriving in Düsseldorf at around 7:00 AM, but the friend I’m staying with won’t be available until 3:00 PM.

I’ll have a huge suitcase with me, so I’m looking for recommendations on where I can comfortably spend the day until then.

I’m open to public spaces or anywhere else that’s luggage-friendly. If you know of any good luggage storage options near the city center or the main train station, I’d appreciate those recommendations too.

Thanks in advance!

I have graduated with a bachelor’s in chemistry, ranked 3rd in my cohort. I completed four internships, three of them at well-known research institutes that were directly relevant to my master’s applications. I also co-authored a paper in a Q1 journal.

I applied to 10 universities. My top five were all ambitious choices, while the remaining ones were my safe schools. After the interviews, I was either rejected or waitlisted by all of my top five, even by universities where I had previously did internships. In the end, I was admitted to only two programs: one at my 6th choice (Uni A, a German university ranked in the global top 200) and my 10th choice (Uni B, the highest-ranked university in my non-EU country, around the 600–800 range globally).

Uni B offered me a €900/month scholarship and a position in the lab of the institute’s director. At the same time, I received a German scholarship worth €1,050/month if I chose Uni A. I eventually chose Uni A. While Uni B probably would have given me a stronger path toward a top PhD program because of the director’s network and where her alumni ended up. However his lab focused on only small part of research I was interested in. I’m mostly satisfied with my decision, although I’m still surprised that I was rejected or waitlisted by top 5 and 7–9 universities on my list.

Recently, though, I joined my bachelor’s alumni platform and saw where people from my cohort ended up. Several of them got into universities that were in my top five choices. That completely changed how I viewed my own results. Before, I assumed the rejections were simply due to increased global competition, reduced intake, or unis choosing their own bachelors students over international students. Now I can only think how they accepted students that had lower GPA’s and internships at less prestigious places. I’m starting to wonder whether my interviews were actually much worse than I thought. At the time, I left them feeling they had gone well, but now I’m questioning everything. I have no idea what I did wrong. I prepared all CV, motivation letters and everything along with my advisor (a prominent prof.) and my friends. I even get to see my reference letters, so I know they weren’t the issue. I feel so stupid. I lost all the trust in myself that I am questioning whether I should go to Uni A. I should I have chosen Uni B. I feel like I have wasted 4 years and I should have chosen a department like engineering which would be more respectible in society and weirdly more easier to be accepted for master’s. I have always been a academic person, but If I am not good at it, who am I?

If anyone else felt like me, how did you handled it? or does anyone have any idea what could I have done wrong? Is this pattern of admission in my cohort normal?