You cannot believe how much dust had accumulated on this website! But it's good to be back.

I can't believe the stuff I used to write in my previous posts. Pretty heavy sh*t. I hope the future will remain light and airy.

So as you can see, I've decided to resurrect this blog from the grave in the hopes that some of you will read it (yay!)

The pics from Germany have been removed - I figured it's about time to look towards the future. To start things off, I've posted a Link to my pics from Barcelona and Milan. Just click on the hyper link to the left and go through the slide show.

As for current events, I am now finally settled in Philly. My apartment has been thoroughly cleaned, de-roached, and painted, and I now have my stuff 80% situtated. It was a long and arduous process and took me almost a full week.

Bedroom before painting and cleaning. (Thanks again to both mom and dad for all the help!)



There's an additional room for a kitchen and a decent bathroom, but I don't have my internet hooked up yet and it takes a little while to load the pics with my borrowed air-card. If you want to see more, you'll have to visit.

The location is good, at 13th and Chestnut direct in Center City and it's a 5-min train ride to campus. Sweet!

I visited my first lab today as well. It's so nice to go to work in sandals and shorts. Classes are interesting. I'm not sure how long I will continue to attend. :) Just as an FYI, I will be rotating between three different labs for 2 months at each. At the end of the three rotations, I then decide where I want to stay for the next 3.5 - 4 years. Which means, just as I remotely understand what everyone is talking about, I go somewhere else where it's all jibberish again. But I'm really excited to learn a lot.

Anyways, just my introduction to my new life as a grad student. Hope everyone is doing well and we all keep in touch.

Liebe Gruesse (with love)
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