End of a successful year and summer plans

I have promised myself this summer to primarily focus on building a professional foundation that will look valuable after I graduate from university, but to balance this aspiration with spending time with family and going travelling. I want to invest my time during the summer into leisure and work equally, because I have a drive to continue learning and to gain experience (which will help invaluably during my last year at university), but I also don’t want to regret not participating in summer activities that I dream of throughout the cruel English winter.

To satisfy the summer goals I had set for myself, I have applied to several Software Engineering internships, of which most are based in Prague. I made the decision to search for work in Prague because there are continually more respectable IT companies in Prague that look for students just like me, and because I get an insight into the IT work environment in Czech Republic. Moreover, I get to spend time with my family before I have to go to the UK again. So far I had gotten positive responses from most IT companies in Prague (of which some are Czech and some are American), but I want to consider the prestige of the company as much as the impression when I go for an interview when deciding which company I want to work for. In regards to my second goal for the summer, which is to partake in activities that I crave all year long, I will spend considerable time visiting close family and friends whenever I get the chance to. With a combination of two simple ingredients – leaisure and continued learning – I hope too make the most of this summer, and prepare myself to have yet another successful year at university.