Students
If you would like to ask a current student about their experience at Bard College Berlin, send an email to studentinfo@berlin.bard.edu or get in touch directly with the students profiled below.Bono Siebelink
NetherlandsBA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought (2019)
b.siebelink@berlin.bard.edu
"Valuing education solely based on academic prestige, is simply missing the point. Liberal arts education constructs a personality, a personalised outlook upon a wide range of issues, which allows the student to not just know but to understand."
Clara Canales
Chile/NetherlandsBA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought (2019)
c.canalesgutierrez@berlin.bard.edu
"At BCB, learning is not confined to the classroom. Seminar discussions evolve into lunchtime conversations, and you will find yourself grappling with ideas over drinks with friends. Students here are adventurous and explore the best of what the college and the city have to offer."
Elena Gagovska
MacedoniaBA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought (2019)
e.gagovska@berlin.bard.edu
"Critical thinking has enabled me to see the bigger structures affecting our lives, such as class, race and gender, and what their effects are on the lives and material realities of both individuals and groups."
Hesham Moadamani
SyriaBA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought (2021)
mohamad.moadamani@berlin.bard.edu
"As I am one of the very few, among the millions of Syrian refugees, who were displaced and still able to continue higher education, I am very appreciative of the education I am receiving at BCB."
Margarethe Hattingh
South AfricaBA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought (2019)
m.hattingh@berlin.bard.edu
"BCB is like Hogwarts: Studying the liberal arts in a little-known neighbourhood on the fringes of Berlin, we might as well have our noses pressed to potion books in a haunted castle in the Highlands of Scotland. We're wizards in training -- knights of the liberal arts. One day we'll be saving the world from magical mayhem."
Mohammadali Ghods
IranBA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought (2019)
m.ghods@berlin.bard.edu
"Be it the gym, the backyards or the reading room, there is always that feeling of you being able to engage in activities with your peers, a closeness that is much harder to achieve or make sense of, were you to study at a big university."
Nancy Stanley
USABA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought (2019)
n.stanley@berlin.bard.edu
"Meeting so many students from around the world was something I was hoping for after high school, but I didn't expect to delve so deeply into learning about how cultures differ and how the things we are taught can change the way we think."
Omar Haidari
AfghanistanBA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought (2021)
omar.haidari@berlin.bard.edu
"This is the first time that I have ever been in a place filled with so much diversity, yet have the feeling that we are all equal. This is a special feeling for me."