A fortnight before school starts, I arrive at Plaza de Cataluña blissfully unaware of all the troubles of not having rented a room before hand is about to get me into. I walk down Las Ramblas trying to find the hostel I will be staying at during my first couple of days in Barcelona. During…

Autumn has arrived, and as we are moving closer to winter, darkness occupies more and more of every day. Darkness may also come to mind when thinking about the economy and peoples’ lives. We have a refugee crisis, we have the conflict between Russia and the West, and the extremist movement IS spreads horror all…

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,…

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…

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,…

“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.”…