October 30, 2009

Justine McDaniel '12: Fall days and RDG

It’s starting to turn quite cold and the ground is covered with golden leaves. I try, despite all my hurrying back and forth all over campus, to stop and appreciate the beauty of fall... My life for the last few weeks has mainly been RDG, classes, RDG, tours, RDG and my friends. And maybe some more RDG... Classes are still going well, and my friends and I have spent plenty of evenings pretending to...

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November 16, 2009

IPE: T-Shirts in Kenya

The IPE blog recently posted a passage from Katie Darlington '09 in Kenya:

The other day on my way to work, my matatu passed a man wearing a Boulder, Colorado sweatshirt. I chuckled to myself at the reminder of my home state and wondered if the wearer had any idea where Boulder Colorado is. I suspected he didn’t get this on his most recent ski vacation with the fam. It got me thinking about the bo...

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October 22, 2009

Maddy Ryen '09: Hello from Hamburg

Hello from cold and rainy Hamburg! After four years at UPS, you’d think I’d be used to this kind of weather, but I’m a Californian at heart, and I’m always surprised by how soon I have to pack away the tank tops and hunker down for fall and winter.

I’ve been here in Germany for well over a month, but it doesn’t seem that long. I’m working this year as a teaching assistant at a Gymnasium, which is a fift...

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October 19, 2009

Christina Miller '12: Top ten things to do

10. Grab a “Buffalo Chicken (or soy chicken, for vegetarians) 12″ Pizza” at the Cellar and see if you can eat the whole thing. It’s so good that you may be able to. 

9. Explore the Science on Display exhibits in Harned Hall, including Foucault’s Pendulum, a perfect acoustic circle, and Willie, an adolescent gray whale skeleton.

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