Hey! I am new here, and I would like to get my fellow students. My name is u/pineapple lover, who are you?

By the way, the English language needs a word for fellow student. In german that’s Kommilitone. It’s a good word.

How can one obtain these numbers? Is there like a statistics website?

Well, generelly, I understand where you are coming from, but I think the enormous price of book production at the time makes it really an unreasonably expensive hoax.

What does “active” mean in this context? Is giving an upvote or opening the app enough, or do I need to write a comment/post?

Why such a snarky remark? Why not just answer OPs questions and create a welcoming, entertaining, educative environment for all of us?

This is what I LOVE about German culture.

“How are you/Wie geht es dir” is a serious question. So you just ask that if you are genuinely ready for 2-3 minutes of information about the person’s situation.

I went to an English boarding school for half a year and once a teacher walked by and asked me “how are you”. Now I know she was just polite. But she looked so bewildered once I gave her an update on beeing so far from home for the first time and that the rooms are very very small etc. She was absolutely not ready for these 2-3 minutes, and I even think she was in a hurry.

Of course “I am suffering from serious depression and my life is in shambles” is also not a normal answer in Germany, but “puh, it’s been rough the past few weeks, but I guess better time will come” totally is. Then it’s the other person’s choice to dig deeper or just accept that answer.

What is a speed limit on highways?

Confused greetings from Germany.

Unpopular opinion: your opinion is not unpopular at all.