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Essay - What the hell did I just go through? Recovering from the College of Europe | Coleurope

I thought it would be a good idea to keep myself busy after leaving Bruges.

“The last thing you want” a friend had warned me during one of those sunny, not-too-warm April afternoon breaks in the library garden“ is to suddenly find yourself at your parent’s breakfast table again as if it was all just a dream.” It was a line that stuck with me, resurfacing often in my thoughts during the last months at the College. I dreaded this perspective. Not that I didn’t want to see my parents again – quite the contrary – but I wanted at all costs to avoid falling into what many people had labelled a ‘post-College black hole’.

Book review: Joseph Roth – Radetzkymarsch

When people before asked me what my favourite book was, I never knew what to answer. I could name a few really good ones, but to just have one favourite, that I wasn’t sure of. This all changed when I read Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch (Radetzky March in English). I will explain why, and also why there’s even more reason to read it if you’re a student here at the College of Europe. Essentially, there’s more to this story than just a tragic yet loving family saga; there’s something profoundly European about this book.
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