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Sexual harrassment in academia: my experience

June 3, 2008

For probably over a year now, I’ve been considering posting about my experience as a female graduate student in a male dominated field. Until now, I’ve always told people that I left the PhD program in Statistics at Duke University because Rainer was in Germany and the professor I was working with had gone to [...]

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The Answers, part II: living in Germany, living in general, and kids

April 4, 2008

What is the best part about living in Germany? What is the hardest? The best part about living in Germany is probably the socialized medicine. You hear stories about illnesses making people bankrupt in the US, and I don’t have to worry at all about that here. If, God forbid, Oliver was autistic, or Rainer [...]

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Finally, a German hairdresser is being honest

September 12, 2007

Not sure I’d pick these guys as my hairdressers… But I have actually found a great day spa/hair salon in Regensburg, Andrea Garburg, and I’ve heard from Sarah that I’m not the only satisfied customer. In other news, I finally got to meet Tammy today. She just moved back to Regensburg from a one year [...]

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This guy is insatiable!

September 6, 2007

I have literally been breastfeeding almost continuously from 4pm to 9:30pm. I’ve given up now and Rainer is giving my little barracuda a bottle. Wednesday was spent in München. First, we registered Oliver’s birth at the consulate (actually, first we got stuck in construction/rush hour traffic and ended up being 30 minutes late for our [...]

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Freaky!

June 30, 2007

WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU? You scored as Mathematics/Statistics, You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Mathematics, Statistics, or related majors (e.g., Accounting, Actuarial Science, Astronomy, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems (CIS), Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Management Information Systems (MIS), Operations Management, Physics, Risk Management). It is possible that the best major [...]

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Thoughts on Va Tech and gun control

April 18, 2007

According to a Reuters FactBox on Guns and gun ownership in the US, there are approximately 640 million guns in the world, 200 million, or 1/3, of which are in the United States, in 34% of households. I’d originally planned a long tirade on creating tougher gun control laws. I had graphs in here, statistics [...]

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Lange Kerls und kleine Amis

January 18, 2007

Hamish over at FiF recently posted a link to this New Yorker article discussing why on average Europeans are getting taller, while Americans haven’t had an increase of average height in 50 years. The Netherlands, as any European can tell you, has become a land of giants. In a century’s time, the Dutch have gone [...]

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