The plan is to finish strong
Posted August 3, 2015
Down to about two more weeks in China! It’s getting to the point where a lot of us are getting homesick. You wake up...Category: Programs
The Great Wall of "My Legs are Killing Me"
Posted August 3, 2015
Ever since I was a kid, I was fed the lie everyone knows about- “You can see the Great Wall of China from Space!”....
Buzzing
Posted August 1, 2015
Here we are, folks. The fateful night! I arrived to the airport and my travel buddy, Caroline, is beside me; we’re shoving mixed...
A Weekend in Weimar
Posted July 30, 2015
A few weekends ago, the NU IPD program in Berlin took a trip to Weimar to celebrate the end of the first session of...
The MOST important thing in Germany
Posted July 28, 2015
Okay, now it’s time to talk about something that is very important in Germany: ice cream. Seriously, little ice cream shops (or at least...
Journey to the West (of Beijing)
Posted July 28, 2015
Over the long weekend break between the two sessions we went to Xi’an. It was a really cool experience to travel in China with...
Why I Speed-Walk
Posted July 27, 2015
Having been in China for a little over a month now, the single strongest impression I have of the country is its massive population....
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Posted July 27, 2015
One thing that I have since learned during my five month stay in Beijing is just how temperamental the weather is. The scorching morning...
Berlin a City of Giants
Posted July 20, 2015
As an engineering student at Northwestern, it has been a while since I’ve had classes which required me to read primary sources and write...
Losing my iPhone
Posted July 20, 2015
During the last week of classes I lost my iPhone in the morning rush to class. That morning I had a quiz for German...