Living in NY as Fulbrighter

Note: This article is quite different than from what you normally find on this blog. It is about an economic/social development which I deem interesting and I was inspired to write the following lines by an article in the Bloomberg-Businessweek " Are...

it's cancelled if it starts drizzling a little bit. While my brother was here, we wanted to go for a Yankees game. I even bought a Yankees poncho for 7$ which was not at all practial... 2. What do you want to do if you're in the stadion without a game......

"Stop looking for people you love, start doing things you love, and you will find people you love." some smart guy Not that I have been intensively looking for people I love, but thats what we as a group kind of figured out again over that weekend. I...

It has been a while since my last post.... from the shores of Hawaii to the forests of New Jersey. Last weekend, I participated in one of these events where you may ask yourself... and you pay for that? Zombierun - run for your lives is kind of a mud...

Yeah that's what I thought... I mean, just google pics for "Hawaii" and there is nothing anything close to rain coming up (as I scrolled my pictures, I discovered that I don't have any rain pictures... so maybe I just took almost none during rainy times...

Recently there have been kind of two runs... one was until the end of the semester - characterized by long studying hours, paper writing and little sleep at the other one, only two girls have been running, short Team Voiggel!!!!!! Two of my classmates...

Saturday I wanted to take a study break until the afternoon - and it was a good timing as Women's Basketball took place at the gym of my university! That was.... well... it was Basketball, not so exciting! On the right you see our gym with a great Ram-logo...

Hey everybody, the last weeks have been stressful with the end of the semester approaching here... sorry about that, but anyway... here are some christmas wishes (maybe I will find other nice places ^^) at Macy's (reminds me of the movie 'Polarexpress'...

Time has come for one of the biggest american holidays: Thanksgiving For me known as a celebration of big turkey, family and cheer, I was lucky to get invited by a nice friend from University - Lindsay - to Nashville, Tennessee. Before the trip, I got...

It was almost exactly 3 months after my arrival that I got my first visitor from home - my mother came for a few days. Next to doing touristical things, I shared with her the most important parts of my life (from the shared bedroom to burger @Howl at...