Hey Andrew! I am currently 19 and studying architecture in Berlin. I think your choice of hope and fearlessness is parallel to my intuition as well although I had to similarly fight back for it. Also your outlook onto the absolute importance of education is amazing. I feel the same way. I hope you never ever loose your particular sense of moving through the world. Both Priya and you are wonderous!
I wholeheartedly agree and I’ve done it before as well. I lived in the european side of Istanbul, then Düsseldorf, then the asian side of Istanbul and now I’m in Berlin. Though I knew from the start it would be much more slow and less effective for me to form very generative friendships, allies and mentors and advisors from academia in German. Cause unfortunately it wasnt my choice to begin my studies in Germany. But somehow apart from the extremely awkward language barrier I found that TU Berlin is much more open-minded, progressive, generative and optimistic as well as principled than I ever anticipated in its attitude towards many aspects of technology, society, education and so on. So now I’m in a threshold where I am in this absolutely amazing environment with no skill whatsoever but infinite potential within me. Its somehow the best place to be and also the most annoying. I feel like I’m at a genesis point. Thanks for the kind comment.
Hey Andrew! I am currently 19 and studying architecture in Berlin. I think your choice of hope and fearlessness is parallel to my intuition as well although I had to similarly fight back for it. Also your outlook onto the absolute importance of education is amazing. I feel the same way. I hope you never ever loose your particular sense of moving through the world. Both Priya and you are wonderous!
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Good luck in your studies. Take the world and your ability to impact it seriously, and use better strategy whenever you feel down on your luck!!
You are capable of taking on the world with the right friends and the right attitude, many people have done it before :)
I wholeheartedly agree and I’ve done it before as well. I lived in the european side of Istanbul, then Düsseldorf, then the asian side of Istanbul and now I’m in Berlin. Though I knew from the start it would be much more slow and less effective for me to form very generative friendships, allies and mentors and advisors from academia in German. Cause unfortunately it wasnt my choice to begin my studies in Germany. But somehow apart from the extremely awkward language barrier I found that TU Berlin is much more open-minded, progressive, generative and optimistic as well as principled than I ever anticipated in its attitude towards many aspects of technology, society, education and so on. So now I’m in a threshold where I am in this absolutely amazing environment with no skill whatsoever but infinite potential within me. Its somehow the best place to be and also the most annoying. I feel like I’m at a genesis point. Thanks for the kind comment.
I hope to see you write more on substack!
what a journey!