Vice President’s Column #123
The other day I read my horoscope, something I usually do not believe in, but for once it was spot on. It said that now is a time for change and new impressions. That is exactly what I am facing right now. As I am writing this, it has been 64 days since I took…
President’s Column #123
The semester has started and all students are finally back in Lund and at LUSEM. During the summer Skånis has been very empty and quiet, but now the house is filled with students again, ready to take on the new semester. Lund is a city like no other – one of its qualities is that…
Intervju med Light
Samarbetet Europas länder emellan står just nu inför ett omfattande test. Förutom de interna ekonomiska problem som legat och irriterat Eurosamarbetet en längre tid, har externa konflikter nu gjort att enorma flyktingströmmar rör sig i riktning mot fred, stabilitet och säkerhet. Europa har inte sett en migration liknande den som nu pågår sedan andra världskriget,…
LundaEkonom Out & About: Philip Wrangberg (Singapore)
I was sitting on the bus the other day, and was continuously met with strange glances and stern looks. I had been in a rush that morning so I was wondering whether I had a weird hairdo or perhaps I had a stain on my shirt. Then I realised it. I was chewing gum. I…
Inspector’s Column: The Effect of a Single Photograph
The stream of news does not always catch our attention. You have to know where to turn if you want to avoid all the noise, the mindless and irrelevant stream of nothing, in order to get real news that matter. The twitter feeds, the tabloid websites and all the other sources of junk have established…
En eftermiddag med EY, volleyboll och solsken
Närmare sjuttio personer samlades en solig sensommareftermiddag i september för att spela volleyboll och mingla med representanter från EY. Ett enkelt, roligt, och naturligt sätt att träffa folk från arbetslivet och vidga sitt kontaktnät, enligt LundaEkonomernas evenemangsansvarige Ellen Carlson Hanse. Solen stod högt på himlen och redan innan man kommit in på Michael Hansens Kollegiums…
When you are out of fries…
Many of us, me included, enjoy timely visits to various fast food joints. Maybe we do not take pride in it, but they are our saviors when we are in need e.g when you have been studying for twelve consecutive hours and do not have the energy to cook proper dinner, or when you are…
The monkeysphere – the reason for the injustice in our society?
It is suggested that the human brain is only capable of maintaining meaningful relationships with a limited amount of people. Anyone outside of our personal monkeysphere are just one-dimensioned characters who we cannot conceptualize as people. This basically goes for the rest of the 99.99 % of the world’s population that are not included in…
From Hangzou to Lund
As a finance student who has studied a four year bachelor of finance programme in a first-level university in China, and a two year master of finance programme here at Lund university, I can spot significant differences between the education at a chinese university versus a swedish one. In China, I attended Zhejiang Gongshang University,…
In Search of Found Wisdom
“Be unreliable and do not faithfully do what you have engaged to do. Learn everything you possibly can from your own personal experience, minimizing what you learn from the good and bad experience of others. Go down and stay down when you get your first, second or third severe reverse in the battle of life.”…
