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• 7 Tips for Fighting Stage Fright

  …e are three factors that trigger stage fright. The unknown. Humans are always frightened by the prospect of facing an unfamiliar environment and people they don’t know. New things make us feel that we are losing control of the situation, and therefore lose confidence.  Risk. The feeling of anxiety grows when you’re getting ready for an important presentatio…

  06.05.2020

• How to Support Local Businesses in St. Petersburg

  …Vasileostrovsky Market A historic market with modern flair, Vasileostrovsky Market has become a place to sample a variety of flavors in its new food hall as well as stock up on produce, meat and spices in its market portion. Now you can get delivery from the market and also have them grill your meats. The small eateries in the hall – think California-style burrito…

  05.05.2020

• U.S. Fulbright Scholar Victoria Alexander on St. Petersburg, Isolation and Nabokov’s Connection to Evolution

  …Could you tell us a little bit about yourself? How did your career in academia begin? I grew up in Texas and moved to New York to attend college. Then I went to the Graduate Center at  the City University of New York where I started my doctoral studies in narrative theory, focusing on the literary works of Vladimir Nabokov. Why di…

  05.05.2020

• Love Shared Apartments Like a Russian

  …tersburg to accommodate the rural residents flocking to the city in search of economic prosperity. The original owners’ space was reduced to a room or two and everyone began a new life with complete strangers in what became known as communal, or shared, apartments - or kommunalka [коммуналка] in Russian.  It is estimated that some 250,000 people still occupy kommu…

  04.05.2020

• Founder of CritMouse Podcast Aleksandr Golovin On What’s Wrong With Popular Science Podcasts in Russia

  … is ratings on iTunes, which everyone uses as reference.  For this reason, it’s very hard to understand a podcast’s development strategy: in reality, the only source of new subscribers is personal recommendations of others, word of mouth. Most services have search-associated issues: searching for podcasts by topic is very hard, misspelling a single letter is a…

  04.05.2020

• Optical “Nanomixer”: Scientists Propose New Method for Mixing Liquids

• ITMO University Holds Closing Ceremony of 9th Congress of Young Scientists in Minecraft

  … August 2019. First- and second-year students from the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty wanted to build their own university. Then the idea was postponed and renewed only with the onset of the quarantine, because we missed our university. We did not expect that our idea would be of interest to anyone in the Congress Committee, nor that we would be off…

  02.05.2020

• ITMO University Develops App For Online March of the “Immortal Regiment”

• Five Nintendo Switch Games to Brighten Up Your Holidays at Home

  …Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) This game, the fifth title in the (not that popular in Russia so far) Animal Crossing series, seems to have been launched right on time, in March 2020, when everyone was looking for an escape from all the anxiety. The list of activities available in the game may seem short: basically, all you can do is make your island look lov…

  01.05.2020

• ITMO University's Work Schedule for May 1-11, 2020

  …ly must confirm their agreement to extend the remote operation mode until May 11 by clicking the corresponding button in the application. An announcement will be posted in the News section of ISU as soon as the service is updated.  On-site work mode remains in place only for those employees whose presence at their workplace at ITMO University is critical to ensure…

  01.05.2020