University students in the pandemic: 'They forgot about us'
As German clubs, pubs and offices are again filling up with people, university students remain locked out of lecture halls. They feel cheated of their education.
Two steps from his bed to his desk, every morning for 18 months. That's how far Cinar Alpdundar has had to move to go to class at the University of Bonn since the pandemic began.
Like many others, the 20-year-old undergraduate, who moved here from Turkey, spent the last three semesters cooped up in a spartan 13-square-meter (140-square-foot) room in an apartment he shares with two roommates. And there's no clearn end in sight — even though offices, restaurants and clubs are filling up again.