Studentenwerk Dresden

The time spent studying is almost inevitably accompanied by identity and transition crises, due to the ongoing process of personal development. In the transition from school to university, students face a variety of developmental challenges—for example, choosing a field of study and thus a career path, becoming independent from their parental home, navigating relationships and possible breakups, integrating into new social environments and locations, managing a household and time independently, living in shared flats, and coping with academic demands.

It is completely normal for problems to arise during this period, and also throughout one's studies and toward graduation. These issues can build up, be repressed, or downplayed—until it just “doesn't work anymore.” If you find yourself in such a situation—or even before it gets to that point—you are welcome to reach out to us so that more serious crises can be prevented.