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So… about that storm of homework… 3 big projects, 2 little weeks and the computer is not being cooperative. My big design project, the one I’m designing with the product design department and in cooperation with Melitta, has a final design, at long last, and in order to have a final model to show off, our teacher, Herr Kampe, arranged a pretty sweet deal with a modellbau (a workshop) that’s in Nürnberg (about an hour south of here). So, along came Saturday the 23rd and I carpooled down to the place with a few other students to jump into model making. I was totally flying by the seat of my pants, because I had no idea how I was even going to begin with this thing… it was supposed to turn out as a rubber placemat ... read more

This one’s on par with Milan, guys, easy. Seeing a legendary painting that is peeling off the wall, as hard as humans try to stop it, and seeing a legendary athlete, who will also one day deteriorate, but is currently at his career high. Which is better? …Man, they shouldn’t even be compared, they are both absolutely amazing in their own rights. What the hell am I talking about? I left immediately after a final on Thursday to catch the trains to Saarbrücken, where Rachelle, my friend-since-quite-a-while-now greeted me. She’s here in good old Deutschland visiting… well, how do we categorize this boy? He wasn’t a boyfriend until about 2 months ago, but they met when Rachelle was here studying 2 years ago (on the same program I am now on). Just don’t make fun of ... read more

I met Karin Engelhardt by accident in Hofbrauhaus a couple of weeks ago, and found out that she was the first Fachhochschule Coburg student to come to K-State. That was three years ago now, but she’s still around, finishing up her last semester in school. She goes home almost every weekend to her town of Himmelkron and she invited me to with her anytime I liked, so I called her up for this past weekend of the 17th-19th of June. (June? Already?) Karin picked me up Friday afternoon, and we hit the road. The first stop was supposed to be a visit to Karin’s godmother, who was in the hospital with minor pains, but a few wrong turns later happenstance put us at the foot of a hill with a well-known Pilgramige Church atop. I’d known ... read more

On Thursday the 2nd of June, International Stammtisch (round table) decided it would be nice to go explore some nearby towns, so the international office rented a 50-person bus, and we all url=http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende〈=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&relink=on§Hdr=on&spellToler=std&search=schleppenschlepped over to Seβlach (yeah, I know it’s only in german… just click some stuff, it’s bound to take you to something interesting). We got an honest to goodness tour of the old town, which is preserved under german historic-site laws. The town is neat for so many reasons. It’s pretty small, but the original wall is still in place (ok, it’s been repaired quite a few times, but same footprint), all the towers are there, and because of the laws, no one inside the town walls can have TV antennas or satellite dishes or anything that... read more

Hey, guys… good news! One of my Resopal design competition entries placed second! Besides being newly rich and world renowned, I will be published in an upcoming issues of “mt international” magazine, and my design has the possibility of going into production. Because I’m not sure everyone understands, lemme explain… The Resopal company is a subsidiary of the American company Wilsonart, and makes laminate surface materials (just like Formica does). They approached FH-Coburg’s Innenarchitektur department (that’d be my school) about having the students design a basic pattern that incorporates their logo, and that could be used in one of 3 applications: as an overlay to an existing color or pattern on the finish (front) side of the installed laminate, as a ... read more