Helpful information from Essen
The following information are meant to help the next batch of students from UKM to prepare themself. Kindly place your questions as comments should you need more information on certain topics.
I will try my best to help out however always refer to the counselor for official updates.
1) This is how the campus in Essen look like. The university campus in Germany is unlike those in Malaysia. In Malaysia there will be a define area separating the university compound and the public owned areas, however, this is not practiced in Germany. Generally the area of the campus is not well define. There is no fences like those in Malaysia. The roads are for public use and everyone and anyone can enter the so called university compound as and when they like. There are no such thing as guards/keselamatan like we do for our university.
2) The university’s buildings are defined by numbers and colours ( The German loves organizing using number system and sometimes colours). I find that it can be cumbersome at times. However this is how it works…
The faculty or aka Fach for engineering in Essen is V15 defined by blue colour. You will see signs showing you where to go. Don’t worry if you do not know German very well. Just imagine that you are still at UKM and you will find that the setting of the Essen campus is rather like those in UKM with a round about (for people on foot).
3) The Mensa aka canteen is defined by yellow colour. 
The following is a sample of the food served in the canteen. Generally for each meal it will cost around 2++ euro depending on what you take. Your matric card is also your food card. You top up your card before you buy food from the Mensa. The machine accept only dollar bills and is located near the Mensa.(very easy to find)
That all for this time, will provide more information weekly hopefully.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Well said.