One year online studies - psychology

It has been a year since I started my online studies (psychology). The university is located in Hamburg, Germany and works – obviously – online. The studies start with a semiar for 2 days in Hamburg, where you get some information about how everything works and you´re able to meet some of your classmates. They send you all the paperwork you´ll need for the next months to work on, you have an online campus to contact other students, to see your grades, see the dates for a possible exam you want to go to etc. Some of your stuff you´ll have to study is online in an E-book – what I actually don´t like – I like to mark stuff and take notes and that is just easier in a real book.

Most of the univerisity books are really good written and good to understand, esspecially if you haven´t had that stuff in school before.

You usually do one module at a time, write your test (dates are available once a month) and start with the next module. You can decide on which module you wanna work on, you can decide how many tests you gonna write and how often. I actually like the system and it takes a lot of pressure, but I gonna be honest: it is hard to motivate yourself all the time and it is hard to stay "in time" (usually 3 years for the bachelor of science). I study together with my boyfriend, what helps me a lot. We got our schedule together that we work on, but even together we´re behind our time.

We both love to travel and even if we really travel low-budget XXL, we´ll have to work to get around and work, obvisouly, takes time. 

During our studies, we´ve been to  Switzerland, Austria, Tenerife (Spain), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York (USA), and Istanbul, Cappadocia (Turkey). Probably explains why we´re not in time with our studies, I guess, but we couln´t resist, haha. 

We usually have a mini job all the time, but even that get´s complicated, since we switch places every 3 months, because he lives in the south of Bavaria in Germany and I live in the north in Hamburg (we both still live at home with our parents, so we switch to his family for like 3 months and then back to my family for 3 months - and all again, ...) it is complicated to find a new job all the time, but this is actually the only way to switch places, and be with our families and to be together, to travel that often, ... 

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We don´t really have a daily schedule, but we kinda found our way around during that year. While Sergen (my boyfriend) is up late at night, I am sleeping like a baby at 11pm and getting up ealier then him at like 8am. After half an hour I get up and get ready for a workout (usually yoga and running). After I am done, Sergen get´s up too and we get ready for the day and have breakfast together. Depents on our mood and motivation we start to study or relax a little bit. We usually read like 20 pages a day, but reading doesn´t just mean reading. It is understanding and do "self proof - questions" out of the book, to check what you remembered. We have like 2 study-break days for the days we are at work. When it comes closer to a test, we already have done little cards to ask ourself or wrote a summary of the book, that we repeat and repeat and repeat before the test. 

If the timing fits, we take a longer break after a test and go on vacation. When I went to the USA, I´ve had to study while I was there (I´ve been there for 2 month to visit my hostfamily and planed to write my next test right after I came back) - didn´t work out, because I applied to late for the test, but I tried, haha.

We like to go to coffee shops sometimes to work on our "at home tests" (you have to pass that test to be able to go to the final test). It is nice to go to a nice and different place sometime to work on our stuff. Our favorite one is the one in Hamburg at the airport, where you can see the airplanes landing and starting - sometimes we start dreaming about our next adventure, ...