Blog Posts

Poland

In May I went on an amazing 10-day trip to Poland. Twice a year, everyone in my program, from each of the different participating universities, gathers in a central city for a week of business school classes and networking events. This year, the Fall Seminar was in Barcelona and the Spring Seminar was in Krakow.…
Spring Recap (Apr-May)

I absolutely loved springtime in Sweden – the days got longer, the weather got warmer, and the landscape exploded with greenery and flowers. I did a lot of traveling in the spring: to Denmark, Latvia, Poland, and a few places within Sweden. I celebrated a few holidays (Valborg, King’s Day), attended some school events, and…
Above the Arctic Circle

In February I went on the most breathtakingly beautiful and otherworldly trip I’ve ever been on: way up north in Sweden to an area around the city of Kiruna and Abisko National Park. I checked off two longstanding items from my bucket list: seeing the northern lights and seeing a moose (I saw four!). We…
Winter Recap (Jan-Mar)

Hello! I regret not keeping up with this blog through the rest of my time in Sweden. It turns out it takes much longer to write even a basic post than I had anticipated and I was very very busy this year! I also love to share photographs (and I have many thousands of photos…
Skiing in Åre

At the end of January I went on a ski trip to Åre with about ten of my friends from my program. Åre is one of Sweden’s best resorts for downhill/alpine skiing and it’s a particular favorite of students. We took an overnight train from Stockholm to Åre (about an eight hour ride). I paid…
Winter Sports (I’m back!)

It turns out writing a blog is a lot of work and once you fall behind on a few events it feels pretty overwhelming to catch up on. I definitely need to write a post all about Lucia Day and Christmas in Sweden but that’s going to be a fair bit of work so I…