Recently, my boyfriend had the experience of donating bone marrow to stranger. Given that many people still seem to have misconceptions about this process, I wanted to write a blog post about his experiences to shed some light about what donating bone marrow in this day and age actually means.
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When I share with people that I am trying to learn how to code, they often ask if I can recommend a starting point. So, I thought it might be helpful for me to create a list of online resources I have found in hopes other people find this helpful as well.
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How do you find a balance between fairly absolute convictions about what is appropriate and what is not with acknowledgements that you are interacting with a different culture with a completely different history and relation to these "racist" ideas?
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Berlin is a huge, incredibly diverse city. As part of my continued efforts to somehow encapsulate this city and make it more accessible to those who are maybe less familiar with it (not that I'm any sort of expert), I present to you: Berlin from A to Z. For each letter, I have chosen a word, place, or thing that somehow relates to life here in Berlin.
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For Pfingsten this year, my friend Luke and I wanted to travel to somewhere new to both of us. Given its relative proximity to Berlin, we settled on Poland as our destination of choice. We had heard that it was supposed to be pretty and cheap, and what more do two twentysomethings trying to live frugally in Europe need?
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I haven't gotten out of Berlin much these last seven months, as the city itself has more than enough to offer me for weekend explorations. But, when presented with a 4-day weekend for Easter, my co-worker Luke and I decided to venture beyond the city limits and try something a little different. We set our sights on Amsterdam, a city neither of us had been to before
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