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4147 Miles

24 miles. If you start at my house and drive straight for 24 miles on Golf Road, you will end up at Willard Residential...
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City of Light, City of Love?

Hi, my name is Tiffany, and I’m an obsessive planner (after all, my major is Learning and Organizational Change). What’s kept sleep at bay, my clicking...
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Tschüss(e) Berlin

Today I went to my last class at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and I was hit with the realization that my time in...
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Explore Berlin! Follow the ice cream!

I had high hopes for myself before this trip to Berlin. Maybe I’ll become rare wine expert, or a connoisseur of weird cheeses, or...
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How Long Can I Reasonably Put Off Packing? An Introduction

  As I sit here, in my cozy abode in the Western Suburbs of Chicago, I wonder– how many more episodes of Breaking Bad can...
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Before I Leave- Again

My experience in Berlin has, thus far, been nothing short of amazing. I’ve grown and matured in ways I previously thought never possible, and...
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Weekend Full of Proud Mexican Sports Fans

Mexican sports are so much different than American sports. I realized this in one of my penultimate weekends. American sports are usually dull and...
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Just a Small Girl in a Big World

161566The National University of Singapore is huge. I think after two years of college at Northwestern University I was used to a campus where...
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Cultural diversity in Singapore

It’s amazing how Singapore has managed to become one nation with so many different cultures, and each and every culture does shine. When you...
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Did I Forget Anything?

Here I am eight weeks later, packing my bags, but it still hasn’t hit me that I am leaving in a couple more hours...
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