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International
Student of the Week

Home Country: Germany

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Sabine Eichling
November 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering...

This weeks International Student of the Week is Sabine Eichling, an exchange student from the University of Bingen in Germany who is in Stillwater for only one semester. She is in the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. She is from Mannheim, Germany and speaks English, French and German.

In her free time she enjoys going to the gym and hanging out with her friends. She has really enjoyed her stay here at Oklahoma State University and believes she has been given the opportunity of a lifetime. She enjoys not only the American culture but also all of the other different cultures that are represented here on the OSU campus. She has also had the chance to go to Ukraine for an internship and loves to travel to foreign countries.

Sabine came to the United States not only to grasp a better understanding of the English language and vocabulary, but also to utilize all of the technology offered here in the US to take it back to her own country and establish it over there. She came to OSU because the University of Bingen and OSU have a great exchange program which makes it easier and cheaper for the students to come here and study.

Her future plans include going back to Germany to get her diploma and then would like to get a job working with pharmaceuticals. Her mother happens to be a pharmacist and her brother and dad are mechanical engineers in Germany.

Some words of advice she would give to other students only studying here for a semester is do not get a meal plan, she said that you will not use all of the money and they will not give it back. “I have really enjoyed all of the school spirit and activities that OSU has,” said Eichling.

Her advisor is Dr. Wilkins

Interview by Taryn Fast, International Ag Programs

Bingen is a scenic area, and is Sabine's home town. Bingen is situated 30 km (18 miles) away from Frankfurt and 15 km ( 24 miles) from Wiesbaden.  Take a look a the german map beside to get a better impression where to find that spot. At Bingen the Rhine River flows through a hilly landscape with a lot of vineyards.


The black forest in Southwestern Germany attrracts millions of tourists each year.



German landscapes combine mountains and fertile plains.