After enjoying a few weeks at home with family and friends I’ve taken some time to reflect on my experience over the summer. Going into this program I was very nervous and wasn’t sure about the choice to do an internship abroad. But looking back at it now I think that was the best choice…

Reading a room or understanding context of what is going on is an extremely important skill to develop in a professional environment as I’ve found out in my time abroad. For the first few weeks of my internship, I found that this skill was crucial as I wasn’t completely sure of what was going on…

In the Czech Republic success seems to be defined similarly to the United States in terms of professional life. Success seems to be measured by the type of promotions you are able to achieve, the level of comfortability that you can live at, and the overall satisfaction you have with your job. However, in the…

In my experience, which is mainly just observing friends and family members in professional settings, the United States treats vacation time or time away from the office as something to use sparingly in most cases. Some office settings are different and they give more time away or are more loose with allowing you to work…

Things at work have definitely slowed down this past week compared to my first few weeks here. Through talking to my boss this is pretty typical for the summer, to be very busy in June and the beginning of July then to experience quite a drop off from that in the following weeks. I think…

This week was only a four-day work week as Friday was a bank holiday in the Czech Republic that allows all businesses to shutdown. Since this is only a Czech holiday all of the companies that my company services still expected to get their regular shipment of parts making the four days we were here even…

This week at work I finally started to feel settled into a routine and felt like I knew what I was doing when I was asked to perform different tasks. The week went by pretty fast for the most part as my company was preparing to have a day off the next week for a…

This past week at work was my second full week at the internship and was definitely a little more overwhelming than the first. I walked in on Monday morning to an email from my supervisor with tasks to get started on as she would be in later that morning, then realized I had a second…

This weekend I took my first trip outside of Prague and went to Budapest! There was a pretty large group of us from the dorm I am staying in that decided to make the trip this weekend. It was a jam-packed weekend that started at 5:30 AM to catch a seven-hour bus to Budapest. The…