Every experience worth having leaves you with more than you came for. As my time in Berlin came to a close, I found myself trying to name what I was actually taking home — and it wasn’t a fact or a figure. It was a way of living. I stayed with my cousin while I…

The best way I can describe Berlin is that it felt like stepping into an alternate dimension. Not a different world entirely — a dimension where everything is almost the same, but small things are just slightly off. The language coming out of everyone’s mouth was completely foreign, and yet people would still walk up…

The night before I left, Pittsburgh put on a show. The sunset outside my window was one of those rare ones that stops you mid-thought — all orange and gold bleeding across the skyline. My best friend came over that evening, and kept me company as I did almost all of my packing in the…