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Cristina
Groeger

USA
PY '08/09
Currently studying at
University of
Cambridge

Whenever I explain what ECLA is to friends back in the States, I usually end up making the claim: "It is what a liberal arts college should be like."
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Martin
Lipman

The Netherlands
AY '07/08
Currently studying at
University of
St. Andrews

In many ways, I still find ECLA an unusual place and I think there are few who would say that it was just another year of university education.
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Adina
Scortescu

Romania
AY '04/05 & PY '05/06
Le Cordon Bleu -
Académie d'Art
Culinaire, Paris

I first came to ECLA for the summer university because I needed an efficient broken-heart remedy; then I returned home for one year to finish my journalism studies.
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ANA ANTIC, Serbia
Attended: ISU 2004, Project Year 2004/05
Currently: PhD student, History, Columbia University

I think of it as a true privilege to have worked with such an exceptional group of young and dedicated faculty, which created an exciting atmosphere of learning, original research, heated discussions but also some pretty fascinating and durable friendships. (more)

STEFAN PRZYBILKA, Germany
Attended: Academy Year 2003/04
Currently: Law student, Humboldt University

Looking back from today, I cherish my ECLA time as a glimpse on something unattainable. (more)

TANIA BARRERA, USA
Attended: ISU 2008, Academy Year 2008/09
Currently: Majoring in Philosophy (2010), MCLA

"Second Home" (MCLA News, 18 November 2009)

KAROLINA LEWESTAM, Poland
Attended: Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04
Currently: PhD student, Philosophy, Boston University

The ECLA experience has made me a different person. (more)

DIANA MARIAN, Romania
Attended: Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04
Currently: PhD student, Political Theory, New York University

ECLA is a place for doubters and seekers who insist on seeing the world in terms of problems rather than methods. (more)

MARIA MOCANU, Moldova
Attended: Academy Year 2004/05 & Project Year 2005/06
Currently: Student, Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven

ECLA was the final impetus for deciding that instead of returning to my home university to finish a BA in an 'empirical facts'-intensive subject, I would start over and turn to philosophy. (more)

ELIZA SUBOTOWICZ, Poland
Attended: ISU 2002, Academy Year 2002/03 & Project Year 2003/04
Currently: Film Directing, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York

My understanding of the concept of liberal arts was rather vague at the time but I caught on very quickly fascinated by the idea of “totality” of knowledge. (more)

FLORIAN HOFFMAN, Germany
Attended: Academy Year 02/03 & Project Year 03/04
Currently: MPhil, Politics and International Relations, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

My time at ECLA influenced my thinking in that I keep trying to reflect upon canonical answers from alternative, diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives. (more)

ANISA SHAIKH, Pakistan
Attended: Academy Year 03/04
Currently: Acting & Directing; Film Studies, Lahore

From those first few moments in Berlin I knew instantly that this was going to be a year I will possibly never forget. (more)

Joseph Ollapally, India
Attended: Project Year 2004
Entrepreneur, co-founder of GoSports 2006-2010

Joseph T. Ollapally passed away in Thailand on Thursday, 1st April 2010 of a head injury sustained while trekking.

When I reflect on my year at ECLA the feeling that dominates is a certain sense of space. Every element of ECLA seems to carry this feel. (more)