The last study year was very specific, because I did not spend it in Brno. In September, I started my traineeship in the European Parliament, which brought me new experiences, practical introduction to EU affairs and skills. The traineeship lasted till 15th of February and I focused on writting my thesis in Spring 2026.

Autumn 2025

To get my last needed ECTS and to also keep my mind in the academic sphere as well, I enrolled two classes on top of my traineeship. Both were possible to do asynchronously, which was really useful.

Elements of AI

• This e-learning module helped me to understand the technical part of the Artificial Inteligence.
• I really enjoyed the practical tasks and exercises that kept me focused and thinking, even though I sometimes did not understand in what format the answer should be given and I did not get points for

Reading seminar: Educational Technology and society

• This class introduced me to many amazing theories, texts and enriched me. I felt like a part of a book club and enjoyed my evening reading sessions, even though it was sometimes hard to find energy.

• I struggled with writting academic texts in the past, but this classed showed me how far I’ve gone. I trained writting in English and felt more and more confident in it.
• My only criticism was that I would appretiate bigger diversity of authors that we read, including more women and POC authors.

Spring 2026 – Thesis writting

I will write a longer and separate post about my thesis, the whole project and my work, so in this one, i will reflect my writting time.

After struggling with writting of my bachelor thesis, I anticipated same struggles with my Master thesis as well. And of course writting project of this size comes with ups and downs, but I managed to find a routine and systems that made it smoother

Go to that Library!

Writting at home is always full of discractions and “nobody sees” if I procrastinate, so I went writting to the libraries. The Etterbeek Library had it’s charm of an old cosy house full of suprises. It looks out to the park, so the green calmed my nervous system. Another Library I thouroughly used was Muntpunt Library, which is spacious, bright but also really busy, which makes it great for shorter but intensive writting sessions.

Small deadlines on the way

I work the best under pressure, but writting the whole thesis in a week is not possible and for sure not healthy, so I had to create deadlines during the whole semester to create these moments of pressure. I even planned the deadlines accordingly to my plans, so after sending the needed chapters to me supervisor, I went on a trip or had few days of before getting to the next part.

Find a topic, that interests you!

I know, my advices are basic, but I saw such a difference when I chose a topic that interests me. Not only it was easier to write about it, but I did not even get sick of it after submitting the thesis and I love reading about it even now and that is a sign, that I chose well.