Category: Travel
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A day in my life as a Manufacturing Engineer
My employer, NSK Corporation, is a world renowned Japanese company that manufactures a whole array of bearings. I work at their facility in Clarinda, Iowa, that supplies ball bearings to major automobile makers all over the world. The bearing is a fairly simple product, but the components that makes up a bearing go through multiple…
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The West Coast Trip: Second leg
The first leg of the west coast trip ended in San Francisco having spanned the southern parts of California all the way to San Diego. This is where the second leg began, with two of my friends and a rented car. We had meticulously planned this trip to go through California, Nevada, Oregon, and all…
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The West Coast Trip: First leg
The year 2018 was an eventful year for me, I achieved the goal that brought me to the US in the first place i.e. getting a master’s degree. I was able to travel to Florida in the summer, to New York and Wisconsin in the fall. The west coast that had eluded me for 2…
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A day at Universal Studios, Florida
Universal Studios is a theme park with numerous rides and attractions from the movie franchises and shows it owns. There are several such Universal theme Parks spread all around the world, however, on my recent conference trip to Orlando, I arrived in a day earlier to visit the Universal Studios in the city. I was…
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Long Layover in Abu Dhabi
The most awaited journey for the year 2017 was turning into reality. This December I was going home for the holidays to visit my family after a year and a half. Agreed, that I was connected with them over the internet, however, it is never the same as meeting them in person. In order to…
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Marvels of D.C
Washington DC, the capital of the United States was on the itinerary of my third day of my mini vacation. Though we were reluctant to wake up early to leave for DC because of the two tiring days in NYC, we were able to leave by 8 am. We drove on the Turnpike, a toll highway…
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New York Times
The spring semester ended, and it is summer time now. Almost all my friends had an internship starting in June so they returned to India to spend time with their family. I did not get an internship so I decided, not go to India and work on my thesis over the summer. However, in the…
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Spring Break: Random Roadtrip
The semester was taking a toll on us with midterms and project submissions. We had long ago decided that we needed to do something happening in our lives. So we had this cliched idea of a road trip. As the mid-sem week was about to end, we rented the cars worrying that they won’t be…
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A new semester at Iowa State
It’s a lazy Sunday morning, sipping coffee on the balcony, enjoying the pleasant weather after months of winter. The pleasant weather comes as a relief after two months of white winters. Six months here and I’m accustomed to the weather and a positive 15 degrees Celsius feels like summer. Back home the same temperature would have…
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A day trip to Des Moines.
Finals week in December is where we have exams for our courses marking the end of the semester. It was over and we friends hung out at each others place for playing games having deep conversations and cooking food. We had good time and then as Christmas was round the corner some of them had…
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Thanksgiving in Chicago.
Thanksgiving is the time when you are grateful for all the good things in life.I am very thankful for the week-long break that I got in the hectic life. Being in Ames, which is a small town makes you want to go out and explore. So for the break we 9 friends decided to do a…
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The Short Trip.
When you come from a university which has one exam in a semester with no assignments and homework, the two months into the new system were overwhelming. Assignments, bookstore shifts, projects had bound me to the clock and homeworks ran the day. The midterm exam stress needed to be kicked out, a short trip was the…
Shubham Khoje 