Universität Jena — student housing nearby (2026)

An old nice building which trows you back to the time when great scientists lived

The venerable old building hasn't changed since my student days 20 years ago. It's wonderful. The lecture halls are just as they used to be. It's nice that not everything always has to be new and gleaming.

Some things work well. But things like reliable lecturers who enter grades on time, admission to modules relevant for final exams, or even just admissions at all, simply don't work. It can't be that a university can't manage to adequately supervise a predictable number of students over several years

Goodwill and helpfulness are foreign concepts at this university. If you encounter the wrong staff members, you might think they're deliberately working against the students. And forget about any professional competence.