Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Students' Magazine

I’m willing to help!” ...with silently implied “unless it gives points”... is up to become the most common phrase among Y2s until the end of the fall semester!  What is the reason for such an intensive flow of altruism? Just the same as why so many Y3s are missing now and keep spamming your Facebook accounts with the spiciest updates from abroad. Yes, it’s time to talk about the EXCHANGE!Read more >>

We all know that at SSE Riga the number of extracurricular activities offered to students is quite big and everyone can find a decent way how to spend free time. But what if it is not enough? There are a lot of proactive students that can’t be satisfied with being involved only in our community, thus, they are seeking for more and more opportunities. One of the solutions to slake the extracurricular thirst is AIESEC. Read more >>

A-a-and the winner of this year’s Financial Economics challenge is... Anastasija Oļeiņika. People saythat she passed the course with the top-score and mashed up all the previous year scores.Read more >>

An interview with Aiva Sperberga, an SSE Riga graduate, who continued her studies and got a Master degree in ESCP Europe (France). Enjoy!Read more >>

In the recent time we noticed some people worrying that iFund is either sleeping or dead, since nothing is heard from it. Wrong! We are alive and pretty much awake. We had a very productive semester, having meetings with sponsors, organizing seminars and movie nights for Y1s and looking for expert guest speakers that will start showing up at the beginning of next year.

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I met Inna in the lobby. Her long wavy black hair resembled nothing of the boyishly short haircut on theAlumni database, yet the content smile was there. A swift trip up the stairs, a turn of the key, and the path was free; one by one people rushed in and took their seats. When the presentation started, the room was full.Read more >>

SSE Riga is a place to meet students from all other the world. Fall semester 2010 is not an exception: we have students from Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia, Portugal, Italy, and Spain. What we should know about them and their countries?

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Anna Aleksandrova graduated from SSE Riga in 2004. Afterwards, she obtained her MSc from Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, worked at UBS Investment Bank in London for two years, spent eight months unemployed exploring Greece, and then returned to full-time employment in the UK. Anna currently works for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and keeps a record of her work and life experiences in a regularly updated blog http://anjci.blogspot.com/.

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There are some things you just don’t want to remember. For me, Financial Economics course is one of them. You can call me weak, too sensitive, not loving challenges, but those two winter months have been my worst experience so far. And as I am not planning to become a super-cool-super-rich-investmentbanker, I hope I will never have to live in such a nightmare again. In my personal case, surviving finance was comparable to a classical psychological crisis, which followed four main stages: shock, denial, depression and acceptance.

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You get a place in the Erasmus Exchange Program and you are lucky enough to go to Paris. You prepare for the trip for five months and you really hope that you will feel special in this city (well, come on, it’s Paris!). Then you arrive there, but the feeling that you were waiting for doesn’t come.  You are worried and you repeat to yourself, “Maia, it’s Paris, feel something!”, but you don’t.  And then there is this ordinary day when you go out from the apartment, and probably you are on the way to your university; you feel very comfortable in your shoes; you have your walkman; you have some plans for the evening; you look on the pavement, look around, look in the sky; you take a deep breath; you smile; and you realize that you love Paris…Read more >>