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The base year with VeBiS
In addition to the Prestudy event and Ersti Day, which we help organize, we also host a “Göttiabend” for you, where you can network with older students and ask them all your questions about the first year. We also organize the Freshman Weekend, which helps you quickly get to know your new classmates. If you’d like to take a breather after getting started, you’ll meet like-minded people at our events or at the legendary parties we organize together with other student associations. If you’re looking for something a little more low-key, don’t worry: we organize activities like a ski weekend or a painting night for you.
In our student association magazine, biotikum, you’ll find not only exciting feature articles but also important university policy topics, as well as last year’s published exam statistics. In terms of university policy, we represent the interests of biology students vis-à-vis the department, ETH, and VSETH. We also help students maintain grades above a 4 by organizing exam prep courses for subjects on the basic exam and providing you with summaries prepared by upper-semester students.
What to do if I have suggestions, questions or problems?
We are always available to discuss questions, suggestions and problems about your studies and VeBiS. Either you contact the semester representatives, you visit us in our office in HXE B25, or you write us an email.
How do I become a member?
To profit from our wide range of offers, all you have to do is tick the VSETH membership box in myStudies (mystudies.ethz.ch).
Administrative aspects of the Basisjahr
Term-ABCs for First years
You can carry out many administrative tasks on mystudies, such as registering for the semester and for exams (don’t worry, the office will send you an email when this function is available). On mystudies you can also find an overview of your schedule. Read up more information here.
VVZ stands for “Vorlesungsverzeichnis” (course catalogue). Here you can see all the lectures, exercises and internships offered this semester. To do so, you do the following:
- Go to vvz.ethz.ch
- Setting
- Semester: Current semester
- Level: Bachelor/Master
- Department: Biology
- Programme: Biology Bachelor/Master
- Section: Bachelor-Studium (Pick the correct study regulations!)
- Subsection: First year Examinations
- By clicking on the lecture title you will find more details about the lectures such as:
- A short description and the learning objectives
- Under the performance assessment, info about the examination block, the examination language, the mode and the exam aids
- Learning materials
- Under “courses”, you see the time and location of lectures and exercises