• Summer recap + photos of new kitten!

    Summer recap + photos of new kitten!

    Hmmm.  Germany is pretty well documented, but that was only two-and-a-half weeks of the summer.  What have I been doing for the other 11.5 weeks?  And what are my plans for the last week-and-a-half of vacation? Back in May, I spent a week at home in Pennsylvania.  Honestly, it seems like a lifetime away now. […]

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  • Summer 2013 in sights and sounds

    I’ll try to post something of substance before the fall semester starts in 2 weeks.  But today I’m inspired to share my summer with you through the music, movies, TV shows, and books that accompanied me through good times and bad.

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  • Observations and stories from an American in Germany

    Observations and stories from an American in Germany

    Ah, so where did I leave off? Last Sunday I met with my adviser to practice my seminar talk and I felt like it went horribly.  I think that’s largely due to the fact that it is extremely awkward to give a lecture to an audience of one but act like it’s an audience of […]

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  • First days in Europe

    First days in Europe

    I’ve seen so many things in the past few days that I thought “I just HAVE to remember to write about this.”  We’ll see how much I actually remember… My first international flight was mostly uneventful.  I had a short layover in Chicago.  When they scanned my passport during boarding, there was an error in […]

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  • New Adventures Await

    In a week, it would be appropriate to rename this blog “Angela’s Germany Adventures.” I’m not going to do that, but this is my way of announcing the news. Actually, the next week is a little insane. (And it’s not going to slow down much after that!) I can’t complain too much. Some amazing opportunities […]

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  • Grad-school-related stress, optimism, and pessimism

    Today marks the end of the first fourth of the calendar year 2013.  It’s also the end of the second third of the Spring 2013 semester.  It has been a weird and stressful year so far, and it will probably only get weirder. I’ve got a lot of different possibilities for how to spend my […]

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