Archive for August 2009

New York, New York!

Written on Aug. 24, 2009 at 10:59 p.m.

Writing this post from the comfy haven of my armchair back in the HQ, recovering from a sudden adrenaline deprivation and a terrible jet-lag, this last post can only be written down as a series of loosely connected impressions, already fading into a grey mist of the past.

And to ...

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DC Impressions

Written on Aug. 17, 2009 at 3:57 a.m.

The second location of our trip was Washington DC, the capital of the United States. Contrary to my expectations that the trip will gradually become less and less European and more American, Washington turned out to be more European than Boston ... or at least it was more to my liking ...

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Boston 2

Written on Aug. 8, 2009 at 2:12 a.m.

This is the sequel to my previous post ... about the highlights of my visit to Boston.

MIT and Harvard

Ah, the Eldorado of every engineering student and researcher ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What can I say ... I imagined it to be not as neoclassical as it actually is. Apart ...

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Boston

Written on Aug. 7, 2009 at 4:21 a.m.

In the past two years my blog's vitality has fallen to the bare limit of what one can call alive. Much of this can be attributed to my job as a researcher that requires most of my work to remain unpublished (until done so in a proper scientific journal ...

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