Work hard, organize yourself, enjoy your free time and do not loose your motivation.

With this post, I would like to encourage all colleagues, friends and students in their career efforts. The time when you end your studies and decide about the course of your future steps is a critical period. Often we dream about some particular job. This ideal one does not have to be available on the job market at the time when we search for it. And then we have to compromise and find something else. It is important not to loose the motivation. We have to use all our credits, strenghts and knowledge. I went through some rough decision time in the past few months, dozens of interviews, tests, applications... I thought a lot about everything. My decision time is over, I am starting at my new destination on Monday.

P.S. Prague in winter is really beautiful.

Ing. Olga Nýdlová

So this is it...the end of my university studies...everything is finished, passed. I successfully defended my master thesis elaborated in cooperation with T-Mobile and Nokia.

There were some attempts to stop me from my success but fortunately they failed to succeed. In June on the way to my final exam, my tram hit a police car. This January when I went to defend my master thesis, my tram stopped because another tram in front of us had some unknown accident. So the result: I came always little bit later but in fact always in time :-).

The Graduation ceremony is scheduled to March 12, 2010 and I am preparing to be the student speaker.

Well, the 27 January, 2010 was a big day. Olinka becoming ing. CEMS MIM, celebrating 2 month anniversary with the new boyfriend, and Apple published its brand new iPad device :-). This is just ......wait for it....legendary.

Between Assignments...

I am one month and half back to Czech Republic and Prague.
And at the time, when our country celebrates 20 years of life in freedom, I am thinking about all options where I would use my potential, motivation and thrill for making my life and lives of others better.

My great supply chain master thesis is almost finished. Now it is time to ask where my steps will be heading in the next phase of my life. In the mean time, few other events with my friends from university kept me busy.I attended this year´s Gala Casino night organized by CEMS Club Prague, our CEMS year organized a visit to a Moravian wine-cellar again and last weekend I spent 3 nice days in Budapest at CEMS Career Forum and met international CEMSies again.

CEMS MIM - The n°1 ranked Master's in Management in the world !

The CEMS MIM has been ranked as the N°1 Master's in Management in the world in Financial Times ranking, 2009. I am very proud that my programme has made such a progress while I still have been actively enrolled.

Number 1 overall Master´s in Management Ranking.
Number 1 programme in General Management, Number 2 in International Business.
Number 1 on combined international criteria.

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/masters-in-management

http://www.cems.org/

Second Bonner farewell

I have to say that people at T-Mobile gave me a lot opportunities to learn and also to get the needed input for my diploma thesis which I have to finish now. I organized for my colleagues and friends from Telekom a goodbye party at the same place as last year - a rock pub called Musiktruhe. I was working hard during the last two months and I am leaving with a nice feeling and who knows....I might come back again.

Last weekend in Germany with my friends

The last visit of my person in Bonn this year were my friends from university - Verusha, Monika and Lenka who spent 3 great days with me. I rented a company car for us (very nice service for Telekom employees, indeed) and we went to the closest and biggest cities around Bonn - Köln, Düsseldorf and Koblenz. On Sunday afternoon we visited few villages around the river Mosel and girls tried out local wine in a nice restaurant. In the evening we enjoyed the Bonner copy of Krizik´s fountain in Prague (just joking). No , it was a water show accompanied with classical and pop-rock music, installed at the main square in Bonn. ´In German it´s called "Klangwelle". There were really crowds of people watching it and they did it as a memory of 6o years of German Republic´s existence.
Girls went on Monday morning to the City on their own and I set off to my third last day in T-Mobile. They left on Tuesday morning and there were just two more days for me to spend in Germany so I really tried to make the most out of it :-).

Martas, Evca and Hrusticka in Bonn

This weekend my Czech friends visited me in Bonn. Hrusticka was for the first time in Germany and I hope she had enough of real German experience. We tasted typical beer of Bonn - Bönsch, and also visited the biggest fair of Nord Rhein Westfalia - Pützchensmarkt where we had some Kölsch in a Bavarian tent. We did small sightseeing in Bonn City center and we concluded Saturday with a barbecue on my balcony and also my friends from Bonn - Stephan and Isabell - came around. On Sunday me, Ondra, Martin, Evca, Lucinka and Katka - big group of Czechs - went on a boat trip to Königswinter. The weather was not one of the best in Bonn but we enjoyed the day as well. Everybody liked the view from Drachenfels and we even had time for a nice cup of coffee afterwards. It has been a cheerful weekend which is something I really enjoyed in these days.

Düsseldorf visit

On Wednesday September 9 (9.9.2009) I went with my colleague Sare to Düsseldorf where we met our friend from last year Cigdem. It was a very fast two-hour visit but we managed to have a tasty dinner at the Rhine and then we walked through the old city center and ended up at the Ratinger street with one glass of "Alt" in our hands. Düsseldorf exceeded my expectations - it is a very nice and living City. And of course, it was very nice to meet Cigdem again and see that she´s doing well.

Trier and Luxembourg

On the first September Saturday I decided I need to do some trip and I chose to go to Trier - the oldest German town and then I continued to Luxembourg. I spent some hours in regional trains, going along the Mosel river with beautiful wine-yards around and I managed to escape from the rain clouds the whole day. When the train kicked me off in Bonn again at 1am at night I was culturally satisfied and nicely tired.


Trier was really crowded in the city centre but the main reason was obviously Saturday shopping because when I turned into some smaller streets, suddenly, the town was totally empty.I visited the old Roman excavations and ancient buildings. The exhibition of Roman spa was really interesting and then I went to see the amphitheatre as well. In the Centre where the main sightseeing point of interest is the ancient Porta Nigra I remembered my final exam at the grammar school. During the German part one of the topics were old German architectonic highlights and Porta Nigra was definitely among them.

Later in the afternoon a small train took me over the German border to Luxembourg where I spent three lovely evening hours wandering around the City and marvelous views on the old fortifications and Citadella of St. Esprit. Luxembourg has a great atmosphere and also the fact that you can hear so many languages in the streets is fascinating. So I even tried to speak few sentences in French again :-). It felt almost quitchy when the sun was going down over the hilly City panorama with old bridges and viaducts.

News from Bonn

What my days in Bonn this year look like? First of all, diploma thesis, diploma thesis, diploma thesis...secondly I also try to relax, meet with my old and new friends and do some little trips. I went with my collegues Martin and Sebastian to an international supplier meeting in the Netherlands which was an interesting event for me to see.

There is some restructuring going on in former T-Mobile International and therefore the company organized a nice barbecue in the park near T-Mobile Campus which was ended rather dramatically by the arrival of a big windy storm that carried one of the white tents away :-). Me and few other people continued afterwards to the well-known after-job party, it was an evening full of fun.

And then again, routine and work, biking to work everyday. But one has to admit it´s a nice routine here in Bonn. Me and Ondra visited the Kunstmuseum in Bonn last Sunday. This one did not amaze me too much, I was expecting more masterpieces but the building and coffee afterwards were nice as well :-). One thing I will never forget - the painter named Blinky Palermo - marvelous name, really. The thing in the picture is his work. This week I also met with my flatmate from last year Christian who is now studying technical logistics in Duisburg. We spent a nice evening in Bonn. And next week me and Sare, hopefully, we are finally going to Düsseldorf, to visit our friend Cigdem who was my last year´s sparing partner in TMO.