Student Life

  • Spider Monkey and Me: Navigating Life as a Young Disabled 

    On December 3rd, the International Day for Persons with Disabilities, I posted about my cane. Her name is Spider Monkey (yes, Twilight fans, you caught that reference), and I also shared a hard truth: I’m still sometimes ashamed to use it. The comments I received were kind and encouraging—things like, “You have nothing to be…

  • Students’ Community for Ukraine: Uniting to Support

    The new academic year has just started, but we already have a new student organisation to tell you about! Students’ Community for Ukraine is an organisation founded by Ukrainian students of Charles University to support, unite and organise events for other young Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. But if you think that it would not…

  • SIS Guide

    Dear first-year people, at The Karlovian, we understand how intimidating it is to deal with the SIS website. Even after years of using it, it still has secrets for us! So we wrote this guide, compiling all our knowledge and complementing it with screenshots to help you make your first steps in the SIS world…

  • An Incoming PPE Student’s Guide to Prague

    You’ve just arrived in the Czech Republic, an incoming fresh-faced aspiring PPE student, and you feel totally lost in Prague. How does the public transport system work? How do you get student discounts for, well… anything? How do you find your footing and anchor yourself in your PPE community?

  • Czech-Mates: Ice Hockey World Championship

    Follow our video ground reporters, Anna and Julieta, in the first episode of the new Karlovian Prague Guide: Czech-Mates. They take on the Ice Hockey World Championship game between Norway and Denmark . From the 10th of May to the 26th of May the Czech Republic is hosting the 2024 Icehockey World Championship. Buy tickets…

  • “You Just Need to Focus”: Student Life with ADHD

    Author’s note: Hi! My name is María. If you’re new to the Karlovian, welcome! I write here every month. If you have been following us for a while, you might know me for my coverage of Spanish politics. This month I decided to write something different, a bit more personal. I was recently diagnosed with…