Germany keeps surprising. Here are 5 more things that struck me as very new here.

Germany is very different from India, and not all of them in a good way. These are 7 new matter-of-fact things I found out about Germany after staying here for a while.

Guten Tag!  This past week has been quite eventful.  I feel as though I have settled into a pattern in the laboratory environment, and I am becoming more and more acclimated to the city of Leipzig. I wanted to use this blog entry to note my observations about food here in Germany, as it has [...]

If there were two words that would describe my 2 weekends in and around Germany, they would be: ice and ICE. Well, the first one of course is the same as the solid form of water, but the second one and the more significant one is the InterCityExpress (ICE)! InterCity-Express is the system of high [...]

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 [...]

I think my title sums up the current situation in Germany, as well as throwing in a bit of the Canadian accent I don’t have.  I’m Canadian. I’m not supposed to be good at heat. Not 37 or 38 degrees Celsius in the shade. And that “eh” is a stereotypically Canadian word  that’s really found [...]

This past weekend I went to Munich with another RISE student, an American exchange student, a New Zealand exchange student, and a fellow Newfoundlander who I met in Berlin a week ago. It was an excellent trip. After the never-ending, delayed train from Leipzig to Munich, we found our hostel, The Tent, which was literally [...]

Well, its been almost a week since arrived and its been a blast! I’ve met so many new people and done so many new things and so I’ll just give a taster of everything I’ve been up to in Aachen on my RISE internship. In the weeks leading up to the start of my internship, [...]

Onwards to my second blog post ever! This is going to be a bit more about daily life in Germany, including some tidbits that I find amusing. My research is going well, even if I have turned into something of a synthetic organic chemist. It makes me more balanced, of course, but I’ve some organically [...]

This title was sugested by Philip when we were having a grill party among our department colleagues at the university. It was a funny take on a situation where they were roasting Schweinfleisch while I managed to fit in a couple of vegetable chops and Kartoffel puffers in between. Summer is a time to be [...]