By maxikaplan
As I’m about half way through my second semester here at LSE, I’m surprisingly still not running out of things to do, which makes me think that this would not be such a terrible city to live in. This past weekend, while I should have been writing essays before I take off for Prague next week, I took my second visit to Borough Market, one of London’s most famous. What makes Borough market incredible isn’t just its size, but it’s variety—after a two hour trip there I came home with cheeses from France and Parma, and two burgers for dinner: one from a camel, one from a zebra. In between my walking around I took a shot of wheat grass, which is essentially juice made from grass, and incidentally one of the worst tasting drinks known to man. The best part of this Saturday excursion was that I came back to the north side of the Thames not to finish schoolwork, but to stay out with a mix of friends from home and abroad at different pubs. It often feels like after having been here for five months that I am nearly living in a dream.
One of the advantages to being at LSE for the year is being able to really understand how the flow of schoolwork here functions. Taking this understanding to then take a week off from class to travel to Budapest and Prague is probably one of the better strategies of tackling work that I’ve used. Although this sounds like I am missing out on the academic experience at LSE, all classes are fortunately recorded online and I will not miss a thing while I am gone. To any sophomores who might be reading this blog thinking of applying to LSE, I could not recommend it more. This Friday I will be going to the Royal Opera House to see a world famous opera production, and tomorrow night I am going to a public lecture by one of my own class teachers about the merits of Bitcoin. This is truly a unique experience that is both academically stimulating and, not to sound cliché, but fun.
This fun is intermitted by periods of very high levels of work unfortunately, and it is time that I go to finish that work before my week off. GW is sponsoring the trip that I and the other students will be taking on Friday to the opera, and I owe them a big thanks for that, since I am especially excited for it. I will check in next week right before I take off for my travels. Talk to you soon!