Seeing: * curious stares as we participated in a 5K fun run through the hospital campus. Organized as a part of the hospital’s (end of) summer fest, there were maybe about 50 of us. And we got cool shirts too! Hearing: * the Whitest Boy Alive, an electronic music project based in Berlin, on repeat …
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Five Senses Friday no. 8
Seeing: * my supervisor defend her habilitation, which is something that doesn’t exist in academia in the U.S. But basically, once you have a doctoral degree, “the habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent scholarly accomplishments, reviewed by and defended before an academic committee in a process similar to that for …
Five Senses Friday no. 7
Seeing: * the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Harald zur Hausen, give a lecture on the links between infectious disease and cancer. The discovery of the link between HPV and cervical cancer? Yeah, that was him. * lots of dear friends at a double baby shower in D.C. We attended for a few minutes …
Five Senses Friday no. 6
Seeing: * my Mom in Germany! * the red cliffs of Helgoland. * the Herrenhäuser Gärten of Hannover. * views of Hamburg from the top of the St. Michaelis Kirche. Hearing: * the waves crashing against the shore from our hotel balcony. Tasting: * baked potatoes. * Alsterwasser = beer + Sprite. Don’t knock it …