So much can change in just one year. On May 6, 2015, I was presenting my honors research in Chemistry at Dickinson College. On May 6, 2016, my husband and I brought home a baby boy from the Uniklinik Köln.
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A reflection on the application process, including writing essays (with my submitted drafts), filling out the application, and surviving (barely) the interview.
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The Fulbright Berlin Seminar is a five-day conference in the capital of Germany, bringing together about 500 Fulbrighters in Europe (both U.S. students in Europe and German students about to leave for the States) to celebrate "building the transatlantic future."
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The Fulbright Berlin Seminar is a five-day conference in the capital of Germany, bringing together about 500 Fulbrighters in Europe (both U.S. students in Europe and German students about to leave for the States) to celebrate "building the transatlantic future."
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The Fulbright Berlin Seminar is a five-day conference in the capital of Germany, bringing together about 500 Fulbrighters in Europe (both U.S. students in Europe and German students about to leave for the States) to celebrate "building the transatlantic future."
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Having my own funding through a Fulbright research grant is great insight into why academics place so much emphasis on and energy in obtaining grants. My year in Germany is not only preparing me in terms of my research, but also being an academic in a more general sense.
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A love of telescopes and a fascination with how on-planet laboratories could give insight to off-planet ones set me off on my journey in Deutschland.
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A reflection on a life (thus far, a short one) of academia, as realized through my research as a Fulbrighter.
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Cooking Thanksgiving dinner in a country where it isn't celebrated can pose some challenges, but it is also an opportunity for the holiday to be extra special.
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After struggling through German bureaucracy, I'm finally doing research! My first project involves looking at molecules formed in space, all from the comfort (okay, maybe that's generous) of the lab.
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I moved from living in my parents' basement to my first government-official residence being a tiny dorm room. Here's some insight to what it was like living in the Marburg Studentendorf during my Deutschkurs!
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Over the next year, I will continue my studies of astrochemistry at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne) through a Fulbright grant. As a Fulbright scholar, I will research complex molecules hypothesized to exist in the spaces beyond our solar system.
This is a journey I began about 18 years ago.
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