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  • 20 life lessons from 2020: what has 2020 taught me about work, love, family, and myself
    Personal Essays & Opinions,  The quarantine stories

    What has 2020 taught me about work, love, family and myself

    December 31, 2020 / 4 Comments

    With increasing data to support the idea that the pandemic aftermath will be as bitter as the pandemic itself, we have to ask ourselves where do we go from here. Not only as a world and society, but also personally. Setting our priorities right; taking care of our physical and mental health; developing the mindset that will enable us to deal with the post-pandemic crisis that will follow in 2021, or possibly in 2022, are the habits that will determine whether we will not only adapt, but also thrive.

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    Reader’s submission:
    My battle with anxiety, depression, and depersonalization-derealization disorder

    October 20, 2020 / 0 Comments

    It felt like I was constantly just floating in the air. I was moving, but it was like I don’t feel or control my legs at all and that I will trip over any second. In order to actually ‘feel’ my legs, I would rub my feet. Once I did this so intensely that I even managed to tare up my left sneaker. Most of the time, I couldn’t tell whether I was dreaming or if something was really happening. My memory and concentration were awful. Yet, the worst part of it all was that this disorder, combined with my anxiety, was stopping me from living my life to the…

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    Searching for a PhD position in Germany?
    Here is what you need to know

    February 11, 2020 / 8 Comments

    A while ago, I did an interview with a friend of mine on the topic of: (finding a) PhD position in Germany. The interview is available later in this post. Nevertheless, as a first and the most important side remark - keep on reading and watch the interview if you are interested in: why should I go for a PhD position in Germany, eligibility criteria, scholarships and funding, what comes after the PhD, and so much more.

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    Ten years in fifteen minutes

    February 9, 2020 / 1 Comment

    I notice people my age all around me being perplexed: not only in the field of Physics, but everywhere. On the one hand, millennials bridged the gap of a world without technology to a world fully dependent on one. They left the World with closed borders and entered a globalized one that gives the promise you can go anywhere and do anything. Yet, all of these chances seem to paralyze many of us. Confronted by the infinite number of scenarios, we end up staring in the mirror and realizing we are just confused. We end up asking ourselves: why is everyone doing so well, but I cannot seem to figure…

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  • Living Abroad,  Personal Essays & Opinions

    Can you create a home far away from home?

    October 2, 2019 / 4 Comments

    Since the people back where you come from have started to treat you as a foreigner, and the people in the country where you are currently residing have always been treating you as a foreigner - and most likely will continue to treat you as one - is there a way that you can create for yourself a home far away from home?

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  • Living Abroad,  Personal Essays & Opinions

    Moving abroad? There is only one thing you need to take with you.

    September 13, 2019 / 3 Comments

    For almost every young person who moves abroad to study or work, the following problem arises. The place where you are going is no longer the place where you will be the only one who is excellent at what s/he does. High school is over and your University collected the best of the best, put them into a carefully selected class, and left them all there to figure life out on their own. So, what do you do when you end up in a group where everyone loves the subject you are studying as much as you do, everyone is good at it, and everyone is alone? Do you compete,…

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  • Poetry

    Yin and yang: the white milk to my black coffee

    September 3, 2019 / 3 Comments

    The fear of loosing you as suddenly as my hard drive, somewhere between our “good night” and “good morning”, between our desire and sharing of teenage-years trauma intensifies. I take a big cappuccino, hoping the foam will remind me that you drink your coffee three quarters with milk and that somehow magically you have the ability to add brightness to every darkness and soften up every bitter taste in the Universe.

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A free spirited runner, dancer, adventurer, environmentalist, and Physicist who tries to understand the Universe. Gets along with people, but not with mornings. I am here because I love and find infinite peace and joy in writing.

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