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I’ll never forget the conversation I had with a cab driver on my first day in Barcelona.

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The greatest match between soccer clubs: El Clásico.

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I felt like I was missing out.

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It could’ve spelled disaster.

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One day we will stroll down Rome’s Piazza Navona, passing from one art vendor to another, lingering on the brushstrokes and each flick of paint.

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Pay for it yourself. And by it, I mean everything. And by everything I mean travel, and student loans, and rent (which is pretty much all we single middle-class people have to worry about).

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Hanoi is the new Barcelona, Shanghai the new Prague. Just a backpack and perhaps a cybercafé, but never any studying.

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One of my friends describes Berlin as “East East Bushwick” so that should tell you something.

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Do some spring cleaning with your brain and get rid of the knowledge you’ll never need again. You may not be aware of it but it’s actually weighing you down, and once you get it out you’ll feel ten pounds lighter. Promise. I may not know much but I do know that.

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You won’t be able to impress anyone with your extended two-word knowledge of their language and won’t ever hear the sentence “Oh my god!!! Your accent is so. cute.” You don’t want to miss all those precious chances of getting laid!