Wednesday, October 22, 2014

10 First World Problems Of CERN Summer Students

I just gathered a few of our first world problems. I hope it will remind you of CERN :)
  1. "I wanted to work but I had to go to visit Google in Zurich."
  2. "I wanted to work but I had to shoot a video in the CERN data center..."
  3. "I wanted to work but I had to have coffee with my team."
  4. "I wanted to work but I had to go to the lectures."
  5. "I have too many franc and euro coins in my wallet. It's so confusing!"
  6. "Hmmm... I cannot decide which ice cream I want!"
  7. "My belly is hurting because I ate too much..."
  8. "I wanted to go to the pool, but it started raining."
  9. "There are too many parties. I don't know to which one to go tonight."
  10. "There was no free food today."


Monday, October 20, 2014

Oktoberfest Reunion

It felt a little surreal to see the guys from CERN at the train station in Munich. So after everybody left Geneva, we wanted to see each other again soon. We concluded that the best place to meet is Eva’s place, because we can go to Oktoberfest!

Eva managed to fit almost all of us to her place, bought a lot of German beer and sausages, and took us to some bars, Oktoberfest, and BMW. I missed the rest of the weekend because of a stupid flu… I need to take better care of myself in the future.

German snack at Eva's place
So we went to Oktoberfest to drink some German beer and stare at people wearing funny clothes. Fortunately, Eva had two dirndls (the traditional dress) so I could wear one too! It really made me sit straight :) It was so cool :) We arrived too late to go to a beer tent, as they were full by 9 am, so we took a table outside and had some fun. Actually we didn't do not too much crazy stuff this time.

Okroberfest crew
So the next day we went to BMW to see some shiny expensive cars. It was pretty interesting but I felt awful so I decided to leave in the evening. The college life is too exhausting sometimes… I am really happy we could see each other and I hope we will meet again soon. Thank you for hosting this, Eva!



Girls wearing dirndls

One of the beer tents at 10 am


Monday, October 6, 2014

20 Things I learned at CERN

This time, I am sharing a list of things I realized at CERN. The long philosophical conversations with my great friends from all around the world were really enriching experience. Some of the ideas are funny, philosophical, hopefully interesting :)
  1. I actually don't need so much meat to survive. I started eating oatmeal for breakfast and mostly salads and fruits during the rest of the day. Anyway I still think a good steak is an amazing thing :)
  2. I enjoy eating outside. Everything tastes better. 
  3. I like eating with my friends. 
  4. I prefer drinking local stuff. I like beer in Prague, white wine at home, vodka in Ukraine, sweet white wine in Hungary, and red wine at CERN. 
  5. I can't speak Russian. Unfortunately. (Sofia)
  6. I can still read Russian. (Sofia )
  7. I can still pretty much speak Spanish! (Ricky)
  8. I can speak some basic French! (a number of shopping assistants :)) 
  9. I actually am a good dancer :) Thanks to the Czech traditional dancing classes at high school etc. I never really considered myself to be one. (swing dancing lessons)
  10. I can actually sing pretty well. I realized that when I heard myself singing on a recording and I sounded to myself as my sister Pavlina. The thing is she can sing really well so when I think I sing just remotely like her, it's good :) (Summer Student choir)
  11. I do love writing. I enjoy it, it helps me organize my thoughts, and makes it easier to share them with other people. (David, Bartek)
  12. When I go home to visit my parents, it feels like visiting them more than like going "home". Maybe not so surprising considering how often I show up, but I never realized that.Maybe I'm getting old... (David)
  13. I deserve to do the things I want to do. Seriously. When I do what I think I should do, I just get pissed off and then I'm tense and unhappy. (Sofia, Petr)
  14. I don't need anybody else to be happy. It's actually way easier when I just take care of myself :) (Petr)
  15. I can't drink as much beer as my Czech male friends. (Petr)
  16. I really want to stop studying and start working. 
  17. I can do some coding when I have to. And I'm actually not that bad, just slow. 
  18. Even though CERN is an amazing place I realized I don't want to work in research and I prefer being more in touch with the "real" business world. 
  19. Six hours of sleep IS enough when you believe so. 
  20. Tomatoes and peppers are fruits. (Rob)