by Jack DiMidio | May 18, 2015 | 2015, Uncategorized, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim 2015
I just washed four days of dirt off of me. No, of course the Netherlands has showers; I only had so much time though, and Amsterdam offers too much for anyone to waste time beautifying. My impressions of the Netherlands are as follows: (1) Dutch is uncannily similar...
by Jack DiMidio | May 7, 2015 | 2015, Uncategorized, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim 2015
So far it’s just me and Delaney, let’s step it up folks. You know I’m just dying to hear about your lousy plane rides and stuff. So yes, this is the honeymoon stage of my trip, where nothing’s very serious and I just observe and I get to seek...
by Jack DiMidio | May 5, 2015 | 2015, Uncategorized, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim 2015
I’m not sure when today began. Today being a relative term, which I learned from my in-flight movie “Interstellar”, in which astronauts navigate around the immense gravitational fields of black holes that make space and time behave weirdly. For example, being on the...
by Jack DiMidio | Apr 28, 2015 | 2015, Uncategorized, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim 2015
Hi all. This is a preface to the blog I’ll be writing while in Mannheim, Germany. For those of you who don’t know, I’m currently a second-semester sophomore at Penn State, majoring in German and Linguistics. Yadda yadda yadda. I’ll try to keep...