• The Quadruple Bottom Line – How The Hoodie Became The Fourth Pillar in Business Ventures

    There is an invite to meditative painting-friday in your google calendar, and you are encouraged to wear athleisure to the event. A marketing intern has asked you to do a quick interview for the company’s social channels, and requested not that you comment on the new onboarding programme, but instead show what is in your…

  • Escaping the Christmas purgatory, make your own candles

    It’s the 23rd of December, and you still don’t have a single gift. Rushing to the mall, you realize you’re not alone. You’re bounced around in different directions like a billiard ball—a woman with three crying children forces you to the left, while five loudly chatting teenagers push you to the right. You’re nearly run…

  • Deck the Halls with Joy, Not Bills

    The holiday season is upon us, and whether you hang red ornaments on trees and bake ginger spiced cookies, tell stories of the maccabees and feast on latkes, discuss the seven principles of kwanzaa over dinner and create mkeka mats or simply enjoy a few days off from school or work, I believe few manage…

  • Vinterbalen 2024; “Go crazy”

    “Just enjoy the night together. Not to get sentimental, but it’s going to be over soon. Your time in Lund or your university time, which becomes specifically evident to me, as this is my grand finale as a project leader and my committee’s as well. So just be in the moment, enjoy, sing.”

  • The Call of the Wild – 40 Kilometers from EC

    A couple of weeks ago I felt the call of the wild. Maybe not completely wild – hard to find unexplored wilderness these days – but I thought I would do my best. The most remote nature accessible within a reasonable bus ride from Lund is the beautiful Söderåsen national park. So follow along on…

  • From Red Flags to Hollywood Glam: These are the Best Party Themes

    Halloween might be over for the year, but I am not ready to say goodbye to dressing up to go to a party. Thankfully, we are in Lund so I probably won’t have to. I love, love, love “sittningar” with a good theme, where all the participants go all out and all the activities revolve…

  • Tinder; The Modern Debutante Ball

    Wax is dripping down cavalier candles mounted to the walls in copper candle holders. Maroon colored suede drapes the floor-to-ceiling windows, tied together with thick satin ropes. Through a chandelier, reflections of light are dancing across the hardwood floors. Tittle-tattling behind thick double doors of oak is an equal parts anxious and excited line of…

  • Where to Cram: a Guide to the Best Cafes to Study in Lund

    Now that the dreaded “tenta period” is encroaching and may fortunately already have passed by the time of this article’s publishing, it seemed fit to explore the prominent cafe culture that helps so many get their work done! Not only motivating my studies but further inspiring you the reader, I embarked on a journey of…

  • My Procrastination Project

    The exam is closing in, statistics, accounting, macro, micro whatever, but the book is just so boring, yet you know there are no excuses. Your apartment is cleaner than ever, meals have been prepped, and maybe you’ve even cleaned your windows.  There is nothing else to do. You’re at the point of no return.  But…

  • A Guide to Finding a New Hobby

    I have recently found myself with more downtime on my hands and little to do with it. Therefore, I’ve found myself spending more time on my phone, thinking about how I should put it away and do something productive. But every time I put my phone down, I’ve found that I don’t really have anything…