After her apprenticeship, Ilona Stuhr initially worked in her profession as normal and did not want to give up this career at all. Two mentors from her professional environment then awakened her ambition and encouraged her in her desire to study additionally. She combined her studies and her profession in the Degree programme "Business Administration, external studies with attendance phases", in which the majority of the studies had to be done on her own and there were only a few attendance phases, so that today, looking back, she speaks of a "work-study balance without life". It was a demanding path that left little time for other things. Contact with other students was also rather rare, so she certainly didn't have a typical student's everyday life. Accordingly, she had to write her diploma thesis in addition to her normal job, and so she continued to work on it even while on vacation. However, she also spent some time on the beach with a view of the Mediterranean Sea. The fact that she does not regret this time is due to the fact that she studied exactly the right subject for her, which forms an excellent basis for her professional career. She has remained true to her specialisation in Human Resources Management to this day and, after several national and international stations, she now works in the Netherlands for a global automotive supplier. What she also took away from her studies was the realization of how focused and ambitious she can be in pursuing the goals she has set herself. Being able to work on several projects at the same time, each with high priorities, and withstand the pressure is another skill she owes to her studies. Complementary for her today would be a Degree programme in Psychology, albeit career-integrated. Then she would also enroll again. And then she might also have the chance to get to know things for which there was no time or opportunity in her first studies: the refectory and the library. Perhaps Ilona Stuhr will take the opportunity to visit the campus in Mönchengladbach again with a close friend, whose acquaintance she owes to her studies. At least then she will have the opportunity to get to know the cafeteria and library better...