I am currently in the second/last year of my MA program at the University of Cologne, my overall experience with the Professors and actual course content has been great. However, online courses are not for everyone; it can feel overwhelming, repetitive, and stressful. Nonetheless, I was provided with an ample amount of support from my professors, tutors, and classmates. Somehow we managed to build an online community made up of random strangers, turned classmates, turned support systems. I do believe that the international office could have done a bit more in terms of reaching out to students and making sure we were not lost-especially to those who spoke little to no German but given the magnitude of the pandemic and the number of students the university has I can imagine how difficult it must have been.