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 […]
Hello reader. So, you’re here in Prague, you’ve sorted your classes, and you’re settling in. But maybe you’re also feeling… I don’t know, a bit lonely? It’s a weird feeling, right? You’re in this amazing city, you have the NYU “bubble,” and yet it is still hard to meet new people. When I first moved […]
The “chata” trip (a Czech word that translates to cottage or cabin in English) had caught my attention even before my arrival in Prague. It was one of the only trips where everyone would be sharing a house together, sharing a home as a family. I was eager to make the most of the NYU-sponsored […]
In our final theatre show, Valentina played an NYU student who didn’t want to leave Prague. I played Hanuš, the clockmaster who built the Prague Astronomical Clock, helping her stop time. I received my acceptance to NYU Prague last October. At the time, […]
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 […]
As the Spring 2025 semester comes to a close, here are some parting thoughts from the NYU Prague Blog team about our time in Prague and our experience contributing to the blog! Esther: I absolutely loved my semester in Prague–I went into it knowing nobody but came out of it with a newfound sense of […]
Nicola Robinsonová lives in Vlčeves, Jihočeský Kraj, Czech Republic, about a 30-minute drive from Tábor. She and her husband run a farm there. Even though she had broken her leg in Greece a month earlier, she still insisted on hosting us. We spent the weekend volunteering on the farm. Although we only stayed […]
Scored a $30 Flight to Paris? Hold That Celebration! Five crucial things you need to know before patting yourself on the back. The True Cost of the “Cheap” Flight That $30 crack-of-dawn flight seemed brilliant—until you did the math. But wait! That budget airline’s base airport is in the middle of nowhere. Before booking, triple-check […]
Riko Ehara- Prague Elementary “I did an English teaching assistant internship at Lodynska Elementary School. It was my first time teaching young children, but the experience was very fun. It was also interesting to see children’s processes of learning a new language and generally how different children behaved differently. And I loved when children said […]