It’s come and gone! This entire trip to Germany seemed to have reached its climax last week, but nevertheless, I still remain in GER. Most of my co-workers here at the Marine Science Center went on a week-long conference in Bonn, and then it was my own time to go to a meeting in Heidelberg. [...]

A fundamental difference between many developing nations and developed nations is the way they manage time. Whereas in the third world context, time is fluid and can be bent to the will of the individual, in the Western world it is not so—everything here most of the time works with ‘clock-work’ accuracy. I remember the [...]

Last weekend was a very unique and a first of its kind experience for me. I was attending an overnight party/gathering of a Harley Davidson Owners club in a small village along the border regions between Hessen and Bayern! One of the owners and a senior member of this club is a friend of my [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to my very first post for DAADblog! I am a RISE intern and my host institution is the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, or the German Cancer Research Centre, in Heidelberg. I am living in what is essentially the science campus, Im Neuenheimer Feld; this is filled with university, federal and state research and [...]

Dear friends and readers, Today I will write about the decision to learn German in Germany. However I will not give any ready decision: “this is the best”. Instead, I will give some pros and contras on doing both, considering my previous experience on learning (other) languages. Well, I have frequently studied English and French [...]

Research is a cut throat domain where excellence and hard work are essential to succeed. But to succeed in life you need balance between yourself, social life and work. That is why our lab presses on the fact that research is not all about science. I had noticed during our lunch break that research was [...]

With all the excitement from the Warnemünde Woche now finally dissipating, it’s about time I recall all my wonderful memories and tell you about them. The Warnemünde Woche, as you could probably guess, takes place in the busy tourist town called Warnemünde each year. Warnemünde is an active city anyways, but during this special week, [...]

On my last post I talked about how to start planning if you want to study in Germany. It was mostly about how to use information like deadlines, requirements and information on selection processes to create a plan that is useful for you. Now I would like to talk about how to put that in [...]

…when there’s science to do. In case you didn’t catch the reference, the title of this entry comes from the end credits to the video game “Portal”, which I actually have not played.  The line is part of the song “Still Alive,” which I know thanks to my roommate from my home university.  Anyways, I [...]

So, I believe you are a football fan. I mean, you must be; or not?You should be, because football is the sport which assembles the highest number of people-fans and their spirits from different corners of the world in drinking, singing, shading tears and laughing all together while enjoying and loving the beautiful moments spends [...]