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I did a 6 week study abroad trip to Prague in 2009 in college, and it was the best experience of my life. One of the things I like is how the city is organized into districts (Prague 2, Prague 8, etc), and so as a visiting student I could judge how far something was when someone said "that's in Prague 9".
Also, obviously the beer. I distinctly remember being stunned by the fact that beer is quite literally cheaper than water. Here in America, water is like the free thing that you order when you don't want to spend money. But when I was in Prague, water was not free, it was the nice stuff that came in Perrier bottles and was poured into a bespoke glass. Whereas beer was absurdly cheap. When I was there you could get it for the equivalent of less than 1USD for a pint. It's probably more now.
Not to mention all of the beautiful buildings. Prague is one of the few large European cities that managed to get out of WW1/WW2 virtually unscathed, and has a ton of very old buildings. Vysehrad Castle is excellent and is not as known about as Prague Castle. I highly recommend it.
Since 2015 lots of smaller craft brewerys, pub micro brewerys... poped up in Czech Republic. Beer culture is slowly shifting that way.
So when you get here don't drink some mainstream beer (Pilsner, Staropramen...) find something better.
Can you still buy Pilsner or Staropramen for less than a dollar (I guess about 20 czk)?
Visited Prague during the Christmas season about 10 years ago, and I've never been anywhere I wanted to go back to more.
I've always said Prague is the city that scratches all your travel itches.