Tag: max zänker columns

Five months ago, on the night of Christmas Eve, I received a present from my parents, that would turn out to be one of the most valuable presents I ever got.

Someone help me, I got dumb! Not because of finals stress or because of lacking education at our university.

Believe it or not, today marks exactly – or not exactly if you take the nine hour time difference to my home country Germany into account, so let’s just assume that you read this before 3 p.m. – 23 years that I’ve been vegetating on this planet.

There are 30 days left in the time of Lent. Thirty days till my next piece of chocolate, my next candy, my next snack, my next beer and my next ice-cold soda under the burning California sun.

The world’s best basketball team is not the LA Lakers. Neither is the Spurs. Officially, the world’s best basketball team is not even American.

Golden leaves falling from the trees and the soft setting sun announces the end of this day and this fall semester.