This trip to Prague (and the rest of the Czech Republic) has been extremely eye-opening for me in a few ways. I am so thankful for the opportunity to fully immerse myself in a brand-new culture for the last two weeks. Perhaps more impactful than the cultural experience was the social one. Before this trip,…
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Trouble in paradise, don’t worry though, we got through it !!
Prague day 10!!! Wow I can’t believe it’s actually been this long, it feels like we have simultaneously been here for 2 days and 2 months. Today was quite the interesting day. With the earliest wake-up call yet at 6 am, the day was bound to have some twists and turns. After squishing into a…
Cruising along the Charles River
Prague day 9!! And thankfully today wasn’t a super strenuous day, with even a bit more sleep than normal! After breakfast, we are off to Nano energies! This office space was probably one of the coolest spaces I’d ever been in (in terms of offices. All of the rooms were rounded off creating a really…
Motorsport – Migos
We started our day with a 3 hour bus ride to the glass factory. However, due to a flat tire, we got there a bit late. We were able to stop in the museum and grab a beer to go, but had to skip the glass factory tour due to time restraints. We hopped back…
Life In Prague: A City of Sustainability
Today was our last day in Prague, and we definitely took advantage of the time we had. For example, we all woke up around 5:30 in the morning to start our bus ride to a border town with Poland. However, the bus ride there was not smooth by any means. Our first issue came up…
Almost time to Czechout
Today was our next to last day in Prague. We woke up bright and early to drive to a glass factory near the Polish border. However, on the way there we got a flat tire so it was a very interesting time. We didn’t get to stay at the factory for long, so it wasn’t…
Czeched Prague off the Bucket List
Today was quite the experience. Our day began bright and early with a 6:15 departure. We got slightly detoured from our plans when our bus got a flat tire and we ended up missing our tour of the glass factory. We had to quickly get on the road again to attend a company visit and…
Czeching out of Prague!
I would definitely recommend Plus3 Transfer Plus Czech Republic to other engineering students. Two weeks was the perfect amount of time to get to know my peers and the city around us. I think that the biggest thing that I would recommend is to be really intentional with how much you pack. I took one…
Eleventh Day Czech In – My Parting Gift
Today was fairly uneventful, as I was getting over a fever. However, I do plan on maybe attending a jazz bar tonight if I’m feeling better! But enough about me, I want to give some advice to anyone that decides to travel to Prague. My first piece of advice would be to keep an open…
Tenth Day Czech In – A Lot to be Thankful for
Today we got to go on a company visit to cool company by the name of Nano Tech. The first thing I noticed about the company was how awesome the office was. The office space was an environment primed for forwarding thinking. The entire feel of the office space was modern in a way that…
Ninth Day Czech In – A Small World
Today was different but awesome. We got a chance to visit am art gallery owned by a Pitt alumni. Now as cool as art galleries are on their own, what was significant about this one was that the building was built by transforming a preexisting Czech building with some pretty cool history. The architect and…
Ghouls, Ghosts, Skoda Hosts
Today began with all eighteen of us piling in a van at 6am, lunch boxes in hand. We had a long journey to the Polish border to visit a glass factory, which was unfortunately disrupted by a flat tire along the way. The delay resulted in a shortened visit only to the glass museum, which…
Chess and Czech-ers. No, Backgammon!
When today began, it seemed like nothing could go our way. We had an early morning scheduled, 5:50 am meet-up for a 6 am departure. Then, the bus was delayed, and the meet-up was moved to 6:15. Once we got on the bus, things were moving smoothly as we began the ~3 hour bus ride…
Prague Is Truly an Electric City
Today we went on another interesting company visit with Nano Energies. The office space alone was incredible to see and felt like a fairytale. They had greenery all throughout the collaborative workspace, and even a rooftop garden with stunning views of the city. It was interesting getting to hear from this smaller company and getting…
Grateful for Redirection
In beginning to reflect on my Plus3 experience, it is difficult to pinpoint just one thing that I am grateful for. I feel immensely blessed to have even had the opportunity to embark on this program. Between the flight logistics of being rerouted from the South Africa program to scholarships transferring correctly, it is hard…
Advice for future Czechia visitors
The Plus3 trip to Prague is so awesome that it is hard to have a bad time. That being said, I think that if a student wants to get the most out of the trip there are useful strategies. First and foremost, it is important to get enough sleep. There is lots of exciting nightlife…
Glass Half Full
Today we met in the lobby at 6:15–our earliest morning yet–to drive three hours to the glass factory. About an hour in, something happened to the tire, which resulted in an hour of sitting at a car shop while it got replaced. By the time we got to the glass museum, we only had time…
5/17: It was only a matter of time
Today was quite the day. It started by waking up at 5:30 am since we were meeting at 5:50, though the bus didn’t end up leaving until 6:30 since it got delayed. We made it more than half of the way to the glass factory when something happened to the tire (I don’t even know…
5/16: Czech tech!
Today (or yesterday, oops), we started by visiting NanoTech. This is not actually a nanotech company, but instead manages energy usage for their clients to try to optimize energy production and consumption. We then took a trip to the pharmacy (which I needed desperately), and got lunch where I got a quesadilla. We then went…
Oh How I Love A Green Roof
The day began with a trip to the company Nano Energies, a growing company of 130 employees that models energy with aggregation by controlling the capacity at which devices operate such as biogas stations, biomass stations, small power plants, generators, lights, compressors, and refrigeration devices. One of the central ideas was that they use the…