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Dysfunctional Digressions

Dysfunctional Digressions

Summer Research

This summer, I had a fancy-sounding NASA internship. It’s so fancy that it has a long, buzzword-filled title: “Spectral analysis of the…

Jan 18, 2015

Summer Research

Jan 18, 2015

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European Football

Back home in the good ‘ol USA, I love playing soccer. Despite growing up playing AYSO every weekend, I’m still above average at best. As a…

Jan 12, 2015

European Football

Jan 12, 2015

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Malmö

Europe, in terms of Western civilization, is not only thousands of years older than the United States, but has twice as many people in at…

Nov 10, 2014

Malmö

Nov 10, 2014

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Tivoli

There are a few things that everyone who visits Copenhagen should see: HC Anderson’s Den Lille Havefrue [The Little Mermaid], idyllic…

Nov 10, 2014

Tivoli

Nov 10, 2014

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Jægersborg Dyrehaven

One of my favorite parts of my study abroad experience has been my ability to be spontaneous. This has manifested itself in weekend trips…

Oct 28, 2014

Jægersborg Dyrehaven

Oct 28, 2014

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My First Week of College, Take 2

DTU is a much larger school than Caltech (literally 10x the size), and of its student body, ~1500 are exchange or international students…

Oct 9, 2014

My First Week of College, Take 2

Oct 9, 2014

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Home Sweet Home

Not even three short weeks after arriving in Grenå, my time in Jylland was up. My last few days were bittersweet: on one hand, I was…

Oct 5, 2014

Home Sweet Home

Oct 5, 2014

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The Mighty Mountains of Denmark

The second weekend of my summer course, I had the opportunity to explore Nationalpark Mols Bjerge in the center of Jylland [Jutland]…

Sep 29, 2014

The Mighty Mountains of Denmark

Sep 29, 2014

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En dag i Århus [A day in Århus]

On Saturday, my classmates and I begrudgingly dragged ourselves out of our warm beds and into the cold, cruel world to see the beautiful…

Sep 23, 2014

En dag i Århus [A day in Århus]

Sep 23, 2014

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Safely in Grenå

My first week in Danmark has been a blur. After spending 7 weeks in friendly (and familiar) Canada for my summer research, I was whisked…

Sep 17, 2014

Safely in Grenå

Sep 17, 2014

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Dysfunctional Digressions

In which Valerie pretends her life is more exciting than it is by talking about the interesting stuff and neglecting the rest.

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