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Deutschland: A Lesson on the Humanities Joaquin Jalova · 15 minute read This article was originally published on student Joaquin Jalova’s personal website and is reposted here with permission. You can view the original version here . Joaquin participated on our Summer 2025 Revelle in Berlin Global Seminar. Five months removed from my studies in Berlin, I reminisce about the steady flux of German culture that changed how I viewed the world. What I find meaningful in writing this account months after my lungs breathed the quiet German air is the added weight of memory. Perhaps, this is greater than a modest list of everyday life in Berlin, but a memory of the experiences that made life, in my view, artistic and meaningful. I’ve been reeling from the idea of calling a foreign land home, but instead of reinforcing the fears of treading an unfamiliar place, I learned in Berlin to embrace that home can be anywhere that’s filled with life with all its magic and inconvenience, which in turn...