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Mechanical Engineering
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Daniel talks about being a Mechanical Engineering student on the Duke in Berlin program.
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Postcard From Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Before coming to Berlin, I had never left the North America. Landing in another country where the common language is different from your own is frightening. I would soon learn that Berlin is a diverse and multicultural center, and it's fairly normal to hear multiple languages when…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Before my trip to Germany, I had never left North America. Growing up, my family always had to keep our vacations relatively close to home (in a po-dunk town of Arizona) due to expenses. Once I was awarded the Mac Anderson Scholarship the opportunity to see another…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Traveling to Berlin this summer offered me an incredible opportunity to enhance my understanding of the German language while also instructing me in the rich history of the country. While it was amazing to see the remnants of the Berlin wall and travel to Nuremberg to study…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
In Berlin, you can have it all. You can see a Brecht opera and follow it up with a delicious doner at a Turkish place in alternative Kreuzberg. You can hear every language except German as you walk down the street and be astounded when everyone can…
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Postcard From Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
In Duke in Berlin's engineering program, we not only learn the German language and culture, and study at one of the country's top engineering schools, we also get plenty of practical experiences that show us where ours degrees can take us. Here I am at Mercedes-Benz World,…
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Amazed by the Sony Center
- We were mesmerized by the futuristic design of the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz. (Berlin Fall 2008)
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Duke in Berlin
- Duke in Berlin
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
East Side Modernism! I chose Duke in Berlin so that I could come to the home of Bauhaus and the Modern Architecture movement.
I was fortunate enough to live in the East in Prenzlauer Berg, a neighborhood that's considered super hip and has received much attention in…
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Duke in Berlin
- Duke in Berlin
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Bitte, how do you do laundry here?
Let's be honest. You can visit Berlin any time. When you do, you can probably visit the Altes Museum (which I am sitting in front of in this picture), wander around Potsdamer Platz, listen to a concert in the Philharmonie,…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Berlin is made up of various pockets of alternative spaces--an anarchist squatter settlement that organizes film showings twice a week or a settlement that maintains a petting zoo of ponies and goats for the kids around the neighborhood, a gallery space that runs puppet shows in the…
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
Grüßen aus Berlin!
Berlin is truly a unique city, especially in terms of architecture. The highlight of the Duke Summer in Berlin Program was undoubtedly the Art and Architecture of Berlin course. The city is extremely diverse, from Soviet buildings to the Hauptbahnhof (main train station). This…
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Street Entertainment Berlin
- An organ grinder on the streets of Berlin.
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
I applied for the Duke program in Berlin because of the opportunity to live with a host family. I was looking to feel grounded in such a huge, metropolitan city, especially coming from tiny Davidson, NC, and I wanted a family away from home. Now, having almost…
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The Siegessäule - Berlin
- The Siegessäule (or "chick on a stick" as it was known by American soldiers) is located on the city axis that crosses the Brandenburg Gate. Barack Obama gave a speech at theSiegessäule on July 24, 2008 shortly before we arrived in Berlin. (Berlin Fall 2008)
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Charlottenburg Palace
- Charlottenburg Palace
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Berlin Neighborhood
- A street view of one of the quaint neighborhoods in Berlin.
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Postcard from Abroad
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Dear Global Education Office:
The Berlin International Film Festival, or the Berlinale, as it's known there, ranks among the top three European Film Festivals in prestige and quality. It's one of the leading film festivals in the world, and it happens every February in Berlin, Germany. In fact, Martin Scorsese…
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Jochen Wohlfeil
- Jochen Wohlfeil
