This will be my last blog post, I think. Since I last wrote, I’ve finished up my internship. It was sort of bittersweet: I was sad to leave my friends and colleagues behind, but I then started traveling around Europe for a month, so I was excited for that. A friend from home flew over [...]
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Heute werde ich über eine besondere Beschimpfung schreiben: den Mittelfinger nach oben. Ich wurde nämlich zumindest zweimal hier in Marburg damit beschimpft. Jedesmal war es von einem etwa 8 jährigen Jungen. Beim ersten Mal stand der Junge am Fenster seiner Wohnung. Ich war relativ weit weg von seiner Wohnung. Ich habe meinen Kopf nach links [...]
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Summer School in Schwarzwald
In this article I would like to share my experiences from the 5-day Summer School organized by DECHEMA (Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie e. V.) a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting initiatives and support developments in the fields of chemical engineering and biotechnology. The theme was “Quantitative Biology – From Cell to Process” and the [...]
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Vom Schwarzwald bis zur Pfalz
Sehr geehrte Leserinnen und Leser, Liebe Constipendiaten, die Überschrift des heutigen Beitrages war schon länger überlegt worden. Eigentlich war sie für einen geplanten Beitrag in der vorletzten Juliwoche vorgesehen, in dem ich über die damals vergangene Woche berichtet hätte, als ich zunächst am Sonntag und Montag an einer großen Feier an der Ihnen und Euch [...]
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The price of survival
Current events in our planet could be read as a warning. The forest wildfires and the heat wave in Russia are possibly linked to the monsoon floods in Pakistan and India. Brandenburg suffers today the same kind of problem and the authorities have an alert in other cities, like Dresden. I still remember the news: [...]
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Die Kirchen von Mainz und Wetzlar
Neulich habe ich mehrere deutschen Kirchen besichtigt u. a. den Mainzer Dom und den Wetzlarer Dom. Der Mainzer Dom ist relativ riesig und besitzt persönlich sehr gut bearbeitete Statuen und Bemalungen. Der hat mir aber den Eindruck gegeben, dass er die Besucher daran erinnern möchte, dass jeder Mensch dem Tod am Ende seines Lebens begegnen [...]
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Lab Stuff
The real reason I am in Germany is to gain experience working in an organic chemistry lab and so this is what I will focus on in this blog post. I have to be honest and say that when I applied for this internship I wasn’t the biggest fan of working in a lab and [...]
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Flying away from reality
Society is our created environment and through our laws and ideologies we pretend to control our desires and to repress our instincts. We pursuit happiness and pleasure, but society tends to establish a range in which we could move, rules that we could not break, principles and social values that we have to follow. Every [...]
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After two intense days of the expo in Delhi, it is time for the DAAD delegation to head to Hyderabad. For me the journey ends here as there will be new Tandem Reporters in the new city. It’s been a roller-coaster journey for me. A great learning experience. On day one I was a bit [...]
by Aditya Yesterday, it was the walk-in fair. So many people pouring in. Young enthusiastic Indians thronged in large numbers with their curious parents. It was tiring yet amazing. Time went away like anything. It was nice talking to so many delegates. It’s really nice to know that they all are interested in talking to [...]