It has been almost three months since I haven't updated my blog. To be honest, I really had a tough time since last December, not only because of pressure from my work, but also from my private life. I was down for quite a while, but don't worry, I have recovered and I am totally new LIJIA! When I look back to those hardest time, it is not the tears and sleepless night, all I remembered is how my colleagues and friends get me through all of this. We are not alone in the society, we can't live without friends and family. I feel so lucky that I met such a nice group of people in BAM that light up my way through the dark . In this post, I want to talk my life working as a PhD in BAM. (One nice afternoon, when I went off from work and captured the beautiful sunset outside of BAM) BAM stands for Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung, which means Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing. It is a senior scientific and technical Federal institute w