NYU Prague Student Blog
Hey everyone, it’s Hana. For this article, I want to take you out of Prague and into the mountains. But to understand why I love them so much, you first have to understand where I came from. I didn’t grow up skiing for fun – I grew up chasing points. By the time I was […]
I had an interest in Sambo, short for “Samozashchita bez oruzhiya” or “self-defence without weapons”, before coming to Prague. Since the second semester of my first year at NYU I have been a member of the NYU Judo team. Sambo developed out of Judo in the 1930s as part of a program to design a […]
We arrived in Ostrava. I saw some Romani teenagers smoking on the street. It was Friday, technically, high school students should have been in school. “Hey, this is Smíchov, my dude, Smíchov bro, my dude We’re in Žižkov, bro, but you know this is Smíchov You thought, bro, that— greetings to Ostrava, bro” Madar Dan […]
The lights dim. Anything could lie behind that ornate curtain. The gorgeous theater’s gold walls and detailed ceilings echo with dying whispers from the crowd. Excitement is palpable in the audience. People move to put their phones away, craning their heads to get a glimpse of the conductor moving to his throne, and shush their […]
When studying abroad, it can be hard being away from home–especially if you have pets. Here in Prague, I see people walking their dogs everyday. Many of them are so well-behaved that they often trot around off-leash and will happily stop and say hello to you. Though I love dogs and have one back at […]
Six months ago, if you had told us that we would be adorning magnificent chicken hats like a crown atop our heads, joining a parade of thousands of people wearing extravagant outfits and terrifying masks in a small town called Roztoký just outside of Prague in a traditional parade called Masopust, we would’ve laughed in […]
If there’s one thing about me, it’s that I’m a foodie at heart. My infatuation with restaurants and trying new cuisines extends back to my youth, with my father constantly immersing me in new foods in my childhood home and kitchens around the country. I had no choice but to be quite the antithesis of […]
Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes with me outside of a classroom knows that I’m always singing. This unfortunately isn’t some hyperbole I write to serve as a catchy hook for this article. To the annoyance of many close friends, a melody perpetually hums in the background of my thoughts; that is […]
As an uber-independent individual, my fervent desire to begin studying abroad–to expand my world, to immerse myself in new adventures, to experience all the flavors and flaws Europe has to offer – all massively trumped my anxiety. That being said, my time abroad has not been a walk in the park. From starting new classes, […]
It’s been about one month since I landed in the Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague for the first time, but truthfully my journey feels like it began over a year ago, when I first began contemplating where I wanted to study abroad. Studying abroad was a non-negotiable for me. As someone who has always […]