Hi, I’m Mack, and I have OCD. I don’t really know how else to start this without just getting straight to the point, right? Anyways, I have OCD. Not in a “wow! I’m so quirky, I love organizing and color-coding…
I jumped out of bed as soon as I heard my alarm sound. I could hardly contain my excitement knowing that I would be experiencing the site of a world-renowned castle, famously known for inspiring Walt Disney. The Neuschwanstein Castle…
With a new passport and a tightly packed suitcase, I boarded the plane to Munich with my stomach in knots. I didn’t know what to expect in a new country, but I was intrigued to learn how Munich and Paris…
Voltaire once said, “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” If you’re a central Kentucky native like myself, when you hear the name “Shakespeare and Company” you immediately picture…
I did it to myself. Everyone had told me. In fact, they had told me multiple times: “pack light.” I thought I had. I packed what I thought I needed, took a few things out, and had plenty of room…
After completing a ten-week summer internship in Washington, D. C., I’d like to think that I can go anywhere and not look like a tourist. I thought wrong. The day after Christmas I, along with several other students and a few…
History. By way of it, we study the triumphs, failures, greatness, and destructiveness that the human race has accomplished. In every place I have visited, I have seen the remnants of all of these characteristics of history. In southern Germany,…
Instead of the City of Light or the City of Love, Paris ought to be called “The City of Carbs.” So far, I haven’t met a pastry or a baguette I didn’t like –and trust me, we’ve had a few.…
Ever since I hit the “submit” button on my study abroad application in October, I have anxiously been awaiting my return to La Ville-Lumière (the City of Light). This is not to say that I did not like Munich. I…
On our second day in Munich, we visited both sides of the emotional spectrum. We visited the Munich Residenz, the palace that housed the German Royal Family for over 700 years. It was opulent –brocade walls, gilded ceilings, and manicured…
