Our stu­dents at the uni­versity en­joy the great priv­ilege of bear­ing spe­cial re­spons­ib­il­ity for their own edu­ca­tion and work­ing ma­ter­i­als. For ex­ample, we are giv­en ac­cess to all work­sta­tions at any time, day or night, and have ac­cess to all mi­cro­phones and mo­bile re­cord­ing sys­tems in our "Car­los" di­git­al mi­cro­phone cab­in­et.

As stu­dent and re­search as­sist­ants, our own people take over ac­com­pa­ny­ing prac­tice les­sons for the im­port­ant lec­tures of the lower classes or main­tain our com­puter sys­tems, net­works and spe­cial equip­ment.

We also have a say in the Ton­meis­ter­rat when it comes to im­port­ant de­cisions af­fect­ing our edu­ca­tion, such as new in­vest­ments and sem­in­ar plan­ning.

Dur­ing the so-called "clean­ing and main­ten­ance days" we reg­u­larly en­sure that our in­sti­tu­te main­tains a pleas­ant work­ing at­mo­sphere. This means clean­ing up, dust­ing mix­ing con­soles and main­tain­ing in­stru­ments, but some­times also sol­der­ing cables, check­ing sig­nal paths, and test­ing hard­ware.

Al­to­geth­er, all this isn't half so bad, and in the end the grill is al­ways switched on and a keg is tapped.