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⇒Preparing for the Upcoming Semester
As tempting as it is to close your opened tabs and finally be freed of academic thoughts after your last exams this month, getting a little head start on the summer semester may make or break your experience of it.
We all mention being a bit more organised in our New Year’s resolutions, or include a picture of a colour-coded journal in our “2026 Vision Boards” (I see you!!). Other than these ever-so repetitive “tricks”, I will try to share what has worked for me over the years, from high-school to uni. I will break it down into 3 main steps, so you can work through it bit-by-bit.
⇒Guide for a long weekend in Zagreb, Croatia
How did I get there?
One of the best parts of studying at our university is how international Prague is. You can meet people from all over the world, often in unexpected ways. In my first weeks here, my American roommate and I were hopping between pubs around the city, a great way to meet new friends, especially Czech ones. One particular night we met a group of people who later became our friends. One of them, that I met by chance that night out, invited me to Zagreb and offered to host me.
⇒From Target to the Market… and Beyond TEDx VSE
I never imagined that one day I would attend a TED Conference. It always felt like something far away – something you only watch on YouTube, not something you sit and experience in real life. But last Tuesday, thanks to Prague University of Economics and Business, I had the chance to be part of the first ever TEDxVSE — and it was truly unforgettable.
For six hours, I sat in the audience and listened to voices that felt bigger than life. Each speaker brought stories, emotions, and ideas that will stay for a long time with me and which are trully matter:
• the painful reality of conflicts between nations
• the strength and challenges of women at work
• courage, identity, and the power of choosing your own path
• building a coffee business from scratch – and how to not get crazy
• leadership and responsibility
• and the universal struggle every student knows too well: writing a thesis.
⇒A Day at Kouřim – field trip, fresh air, and living history
We met at Masarykovo nádraží early in the morning, still half asleep. After one transfer and a lot of train-window countryside therapy, we arrived in Kouřim. It’s quiet in that “you can actually hear your own footsteps” way. We walked through the town together to the open-air museum which was a little world of old timbered houses grouped side by side like someone collected villages from around Bohemia and arranged them for us to wander through.
The Museum of Folk Architecture in Kouřim is actually the only open-air museum in the Czech Republic that brings together buildings from different ethnographic regions Central, East, and West Bohemia so you can see all the local variations next to each other instead of having to travel across the country.