Archive for September, 2009

New York – City of weirdos

Last weekend, I decided to skip labwork and go for some new expierience. Alex and I had arranged to meet in New York to celebrate her Birthday. However, I went a couple hours early to meet up with Hagen and to check out tkts. It was pretty cool meeting a friend from back home in [...]

Pittsburgh on the Eve of the G20 – a response

Okay, so I just read this article over at the Washington Post (thanks Sudeep!) and have something to say about its subject. First of all, the article is really good and explains Pittsburgh pretty well. And I might just not be in the position to add or critize anything of it due to my limited [...]

Sport, Buses and Sports

Today it’ll like to talk about sport as a recreation, buses and sport as a craze. Hope you’ll bear with me till “the end”.
In difference to German schools, most American colleges and universities are what you call campuses. Everything relativley close together in a space just occupied by the school. But it also means, that [...]

Life in Pittsburgh

So here I am. Half a citizen of this “elite” school. The school is really small (think half the size of FHM or a third of TUM). However, of those 7000 students, 3000 are grads. So everything here breathes RESEARCH.
The school is reaaly new, even for American Standards (think in the 1920, during the great [...]

Neue Blogsoftware – Neues Glück

Also wenn dieser Blog jetzt wieder regelmässig genutzt wird, werde ich das auch mal tun Hiermit kündige ich zunächst meine Abwesenheit aus der WG in den nächsten Tagen an:  Mein Patenneffe hat morgen Schuleinführung, ergo fahre ich mit meiner Mutter dorthin und verbringe den Tag dort. Wir fahren allerdings am Abend wieder zurück [...]

Pittsburgh – the first days

First of all, i’m sorry it took me so long to post. But two main reasons have stoped me from doing that. First of all, I have no camera to call my own right now. So no picutres. Sorry. Secondly, the first pretty long post I had was lost somewhere between my ipod and this [...]

Blog update

Hab gerade ein update der blogsoftware eingespielt. Die Unterschiede sind eig nur für Schreiberlinge sichtbar. Im Backend hat sich einiges verändert. Vorallem geht jetzt auch der wordpress mobile Client (für iPhone & Co)! Wohoo!