Electrecial Engineering and Computer Science at TUM
TUM's research campus north of the city, at the very end of the U6.
What is Garching (Garching‑Forschungszentrum)?
The world's largest Volksfest, held every autumn on the Theresienwiese.
What is Oktoberfest (the "Wiesn")?
Spelled out, the capital letters in EESTEC stand for this five-word name.
What is the Electrical Engineering STudents' European assoCiation?
LC Munich was founded in this year, at TUM.
What is 1999?
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this two-digit number is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
What is 42?
Mathe and Informatik students take this fast way down from the upper floors of the Garching MI building — a thrill EE students rarely get, stuck on the Stammgelände.
What are the slides?
Year-round, surfers ride a permanent standing wave on the Eisbach at the southern tip of this huge park
What is the Englischer Garten?
EESTEC was founded in 1986 in this Dutch city.
What is Eindhoven?
A different name for LC Munich.
What is LC Awesome?
Clicking a disguised link only to be ambushed by Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" is called this.
What is Rickrolling?
2015: In 5 Years.
2026: In 5 Years.
In how many years has the EE faculty been foretold to move to Garching, both 10 years ago and today?
On hot days, students float, swim, and grill along the gravel banks of this river.
What is the Flaucher/Isar?
Christa Ward, Valentina Vremec, Piotr Starzyk, Atina Velinovska, Matej Filipovski.
Who is the current Board of the Association (BoA)?
This cheekily double-E'd Jobfair is LC Munich's main income source for running events all year
What is carEEr?
In this 2011 Mojang sandbox game — now the best-selling video game of all time — you mine by day and dodge exploding Creepers by night.
What is Minecraft?
Since October 2022, Electrical Engineering, Informatics, and Mathematics have all lived under this one mega-school, abbreviated CIT.
What is the School of Computation, Information and Technology, created October 1, 2022 from the three former faculties?
At 11am and noon, tourists crowd Marienplatz to watch the figures of this clock dance.
What is the Glockenspiel (at the Neues Rathaus)?
EESTEC branches come in three tiers: Observers, JLCs, and these full-status committees.
What are Local Committees (LCs?
Each year LC Munich throws this unofficial gathering to reunite with former and international members.
What is the Frühlingsfest?
In Isaac Asimov's stories, robots are bound by these three numbered rules, the first forbidding a robot to harm a human.
What are the Three Laws of Robotics?
This Bavarian "fairy-tale king" founded TUM's ancestor, the Polytechnic School, in the 1860s.
Who is King Ludwig II?
This relocated cultural hub at HP8 packs in concerts, a library to study in, adult-ed courses, and club nights
What is the Gasteig (HP8)?
At the end of the HAKA.
Where do EESTECers proclaim their profession as "unemployed"?
Over the years Munich has been a powerhouse at producing these soft-skills facilitators for EESTEC, even if the LC rarely used them at home.
What are EESTEC Trainers?
Required reading for most engineers, this stick-figure webcomic bills itself as being about "romance, sarcasm, math, and language."
What is xkcd?