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Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/FusioneersWiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 37 http://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=GustavoTheFusioneersWiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-10T05:21:37ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.23.1http://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T02:19:51Z<p>Gustavo: /* Eating */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me (you can get it, either at the center of the campus, near the S-bahn, or underground, near the Hauptbahnhof);<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.<br />
<br />
You can pay in the Mensas either with cash or by charging previously your student card with money (this will make the operation much faster). The card can be charged in a desk in the floor below the eating floor. As for supermarkets near, you have Kaufland and Aldi at the shopping center in front of Vaihingen Rathaus (remember to catch the bus 82, although you can also walk for 30 minutes) and you have a Netto (very cheap) near the Campus, where the way to go is described here: [https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/48.7430181,9.1005141/Netto+Marken-Discount+-+Filiale,+Meluner+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+70569+Stuttgart-Vaihingen/@48.741993,9.0999417,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4799dc3f51d5045f:0x1f0784f4f25483cb!2m2!1d9.092292!2d48.738657!3e2]</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T02:15:45Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me (you can get it, either at the center of the campus, near the S-bahn, or underground, near the Hauptbahnhof);<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.<br />
<br />
You can pay in the Mensas either with cash or by charging previously your student card with money (this will make the operation much faster). The card can be charged in a desk in the floor below the eating floor. As for supermarkets near, you have Kaufland and Aldi at the shopping center in front of Vaihingen Rathaus (remeber to catch the bus 82, although you can also walk for 30 minutes) and you have a Netto (very cheap) near the Campus, where the way to go is described here: [https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/48.7430181,9.1005141/Netto+Marken-Discount+-+Filiale,+Meluner+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+70569+Stuttgart-Vaihingen/@48.741993,9.0999417,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4799dc3f51d5045f:0x1f0784f4f25483cb!2m2!1d9.092292!2d48.738657!3e2]</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T02:14:54Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me (you can get it, either at the center of the campus, near the S-bahn, or underground, near the Hauptbahnhof);<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.<br />
<br />
You can pay in the Mensas either with cash or by charging previously your student card with money (this will make the operation much faster). The card can be charged in a desk in the floor below the eating floor. As for supermarkets near, you have Kaufland and Aldi at the shopping center in front of Vaihingen Rathaus (remeber to catch the bus 82, although you can also walk for 30 minutes) and you have a Netto (very cheap) near the Campus, where the way to go is described here: [https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/48.7430181,9.1005141/Netto+Marken-Discount+-+Filiale,+Meluner+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+70569+Stuttgart-Vaihingen/@48.741993,9.0999417,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4799dc3f51d5045f:0x1f0784f4f25483cb!2m2!1d9.092292!2d48.738657!3e2]</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T01:55:48Z<p>Gustavo: /* Eating */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.<br />
<br />
You can pay in the Mensas either with cash or by charging previously your student card with money (this will make the operation much faster). The card can be charged in a desk in the floor below the eating floor. As for supermarkets near, you have Kaufland and Aldi at the shopping center in front of Vaihingen Rathaus (remeber to catch the bus 82, although you can also walk for 30 minutes) and you have a Netto (very cheap) near the Campus, where the way to go is described here: [https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/48.7430181,9.1005141/Netto+Marken-Discount+-+Filiale,+Meluner+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+70569+Stuttgart-Vaihingen/@48.741993,9.0999417,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4799dc3f51d5045f:0x1f0784f4f25483cb!2m2!1d9.092292!2d48.738657!3e2]</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T01:55:10Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.<br />
<br />
You can pay in the Mensas wither with cash or by charging previously your student card with money (this will make the operation much faster). The card can be charged in a desk in the floor below the eating floor. As for supermarkets near, you have Kaufland and Aldi at the shopping center in front of Vaihingen Rathaus (remeber to catch the bus 82, although you can also walk for 30 minutes) and you have a Netto (very cheap) near the Campus, where the way to go is described here: [https://www.google.fr/maps/dir/48.7430181,9.1005141/Netto+Marken-Discount+-+Filiale,+Meluner+Stra%C3%9Fe+2,+70569+Stuttgart-Vaihingen/@48.741993,9.0999417,18z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4799dc3f51d5045f:0x1f0784f4f25483cb!2m2!1d9.092292!2d48.738657!3e2]</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-26T01:49:25Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).<br />
<br />
== Eating ==<br />
<br />
Ok, so the student restaurants in Germany are called Mensa. There are at least two Mensas in Stuttgart, one at our campus, near the university campus center, and another at the humanities campus, in the center of Stuttgart. There is also a sandwich house and an expensive supermarket under the mensa of our campus and there is an expensive cafeteria at our institute where you can buy a sandwich. The mensa in our campus is expensive and extremely bad. If you are going to your second year, you are going to get surprised how bad food is at the Mensa compared to your previous university. <br />
<br />
Here is what the majority of the students do: since we all live at the residences and they are all near the faculty or the institute (maximum 15 minutes walking), we go home to eat. What do you eat? Well... Frozen food is extremely cheap in Germany, you can get simple pizzas for 70 cents or more complex pizzas for €1.30 at a normal supermarket. The student apartments are usually equipped with a good freezer, so you don't even have to prepare your lunch, although if you want you can prepare something in advance.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:43:15Z<p>Gustavo: /* Finding your courses */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html]).<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:42:26Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
6) To get your health paper (even if you have the european health card, you need it, you just don't have to go to pay), there are offices in the Mensa (student restaurant) that will take care of that.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:39:58Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ (International Center) to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:39:18Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:35:20Z<p>Gustavo: /* Getting Around */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the week days before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:34:23Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the year before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.<br />
<br />
To move around germany, as I said before, avoid at all cost trains. The only exception should be if you want to go to EuropaPark the second largest thematic park in Europe (after Disneyland Paris). Since you are inside the state of Baden-Württemberg, Deutsche Bahn offers you a package ticket, that can be bought in the ticket machines, that includes not only the entrance at the Park but the coming and going trip, the ticket is roughly €50 (the more tickets you buy together the cheaper it is). If you are not going to Europa Park though, you should use MeinFernBus or BlaBlaCar [http://www.blablacar.de/] which is now a popular service in Germany (and crosses borders cheaply).</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:22:52Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding your courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].<br />
<br />
== Getting Around ==<br />
<br />
The student card in Stuttgart allows you to travel in all transport systems of the city for free at weekends and holidays or after 18:00 at week days. This includes EVERY transport system of Stuttgart, either bus, S-bahn or U-bahn. If you want to be able to move around during the year before 18:00 then you can get a 6 month student pass that will cost you roughly €180. You can only get this pass AFTER you have the student card, but don't despair, if you bought the monthly card for the first month as I advised you at the beginning, they will discount the value that you paid from the price of the 6 month card. <br />
<br />
Single tickets are crazily expensive in Stuttgart and for the last 6 month I walked to the supermarket whenever I wanted to go there before 18:00, or traveled in the S-bahn looking for revisors. Still, you can also get a bike, not only it will help you move around at the campus, it will allow you to go to Vaihingen's center quite easily, but it won't make a significant difference.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T23:09:07Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Finding you courses ==<br />
<br />
All your courses are, in principal, either at the institute or at the faculty of physics and mathematics (the faculty is the huge building that dominates the campus and that you can see in the picture in this link: [http://www.f08.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html].</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T02:05:10Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Institute ==<br />
<br />
We belong to the Institut für Grenzflächenverfahrenstechnik und Plasmatechnologie, Universität Stuttgart [http://www.igvp.uni-stuttgart.de/index.en.html]. It can be found in the following link: [https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.749786,9.103079,3a,75y,99.4h,88.93t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sEusrDQVxv-7H_FUcEdx7pg!2e0] There you can find Carsten that will give you the indications regarding your courses.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T01:52:53Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vaihingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vaihingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vaihingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-25T00:22:47Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|Vahingen Rathaus]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T23:48:16Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.JPG|200px|thumb|right|alt text]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T23:47:51Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File: RathausVahingen.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T23:44:54Z<p>Gustavo: /* Registration */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane; [[File:RathausVahingen.JPG]]<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/File:RathausVahingen.JPGFile:RathausVahingen.JPG2015-03-24T23:44:12Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T23:20:18Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
<br />
== Registration ==<br />
<br />
God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane;<br />
<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T23:19:09Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.<br />
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== Registration ==<br />
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God help you!! (and I'm an atheist) Prepare to know the Legendary German Bureaucratic System. If you are European, you will suffer, if you are non-EU you will die. There are some advice I can give you that will significantly improve your life:<br />
1) Get a buddy from the IZ center to help you, for that you will need to give to the IZ center the date of your arrival in advance;<br />
2) Even if you didn't get a buddy, go to the IZ center that is near the residence and they will give you there a package with the instructions of what you need to do and a lot of things;<br />
3) For the first month you will need to move a lot, so the moment you get to stuttgart, despite the fact that it is expensive, get a monthly pass to move around in the transport system, just for the first month, it will compensate, believe me;<br />
4) To go to Vahingen Rathaus catch the 82 in Schrane;<br />
5) The closest post office is in Rohr, to go there catch the S-bahn, and when you go down the steps to get out of Rohr station, turn right, then go until the main road and turn left, walk a little bit up, when you see a supermarket, in the other side of the road there is a small papershop that is the post-office.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T22:55:41Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
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<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]. And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T22:55:22Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
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<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität (this is the campus of engineering and science, which is located in the outskirts of stuttgart, politically under Vahingen, a moon of Stuttgart). The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]<br />
And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T22:48:53Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität. The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]<br />
And just for the record the residence is right in front of Straußäcker II.</div>Gustavohttp://thefusioneerswiki.nfshost.com/FusioneersWiki/index.php/Coming_to_StuttgartComing to Stuttgart2015-03-24T22:46:34Z<p>Gustavo: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Getting In ==<br />
<br />
If you are coming from outside of Europe it is likely that you will be landing in Frankfurt (there is a train that takes you from the airport to the central station (Hauptbahnhof)). If you come from within Europe there is a low cost Airport in Baden Baden (that has ryanair: [http://www.ryanair.com/]). AVOID at all costs the trains in Germany, they are very expensive, instead try this bus company that goes between the main cities (usually stops at the main station, in Frankfurt it does): [http://meinfernbus.de/]. (you can buy the ticket online). To go from Baden Baden airport to Stuttgart, you need to pass through Karlsruhe, Meinfernbus will take you from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart, but to get to Karlsruhe you are advised to check [http://en.kvv.de/] (here you will find the prices, hours, and all the information to make the cheapest trip from the airport to Karlsruhe). If you are dum and decided to catch the train with Deutsche Bahn, follow at least this advice and buy the ticket in advance since it is quite cheaper [http://www.bahn.com/i/view/GBR/en/]. There is also the hypothesis that you are rich and you had the money to go directly to Stuttgart Airport, if that's the case, great for you, you rich asshole. <br />
<br />
Ok, let's imagine now, that you have safely arrived in Stuttgart. There are 4 possible points you may be: Stuttgart Airport (if you are rich, or if you came by one of the lines of meinfernbus), Stuttgart Main Station (if you came by train), Stuttgart Zuffenhausen (if you come by meinfernbus that is the most likely stop), or Stuttgart Obertürkheim (other meinfernbus stop). From here you must know that there are several kinds of urban transportation in Stuttgart, but for now you only need to care about one: the S-bahn (which is the urban train system, NOT trams: those are the U-bahn). From all these locations you have S-bahn, and so does your destination the S-bahn station: Universität. The S-bahn map is quite clear and all stations are equipped with machines that can be set into english, so I won't get into detail here. <br />
<br />
Probably your primary objective is to get into the residence Straußäcker III before the housemeister leaves (he will not stay there afterhours, ever!!! Stuttgart people are known as the LEAST nice people in Germany and it will be good for you to remember that). There are two exits from the S-bahn station Universität: one goes to the zentrum of the campus and the other goes to one of the main roads. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the main road, you can arrive to the residence by following the road in the direction you leave the S-bahn station (the station is underground), follow in that direction until you have passed two bus stops. The second bus stop is called Schrane. Once you have arrived at Schrane, turn right and follow through that path until you find a grey communist residence with a plate that says Welcome to Hell, joking, people are nice there, it actually says, Straußäcker III. In the opposite corner of the residence is the housemeister office, he does not speak english. <br />
<br />
If you chose the one that goes to the zentrum, pray to god! (Although it is much more beautiful and useful path) You get out at this circle, where the main reference I can give you is the library, go in the library direction!!! After passing the entrance of the library, go in the BW bank direction! After passing through the BW bank, go through the kind of tunel on your front, pass a people's and bike's bridge. After passing this bridge turn left, and pass a metal (kind of scary, but safe) bridge, you should see by now a big building with the letters IZ in it across the bridge, that is the international center. Passing the IZ center and a pizzaria, you should see the grey buildings, turn right, through a passage that should have some trash containers and you shall arrive to the housemeister's office.<br />
<br />
Check the link for information regarding the residence Straußäcker III [http://www.studierendenwerk-stuttgart.de/en/wohnanlage/straussaecker-iii]</div>Gustavo Deprecated: header(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($response_code) of type int is deprecated in /home/public/FusioneersWiki/includes/WebResponse.php on line 37