Winter is already knocking on Saint Petersburg’s doors with snow already falling out in the streets with autumn on its way out taking with it the first half of the semester. It seems as though just yesterday I was enjoying the free summer time. However, we all know that time doesn’t stop, and eventually everything comes to an end, giving way for other things to come. Those things in this case are the mid-semester tests, or how they are called here, "control work". Everybody’s busy studying for the tests, hurrying to give to their professors pending homework and laboratory works, otherwise they will be left as a "debt" you must settle before the end of the semester.
I remember the first time I went on a trip abroad, to Europe, with my family. It was also the first time I visited Saint Petersburg and since then I have been in love with the city. Now, almost ten years later, not only have I come back to what was my childhood dream city, the city which I remembered so fondly and yearned to come back to, but now it’s also my new home, the place where I live and study.
Do you remember the first time you gave a speech at a conference? I am sure that every young scientist has a story related to such an exciting experience. Here is what happened to me when I successfully presented my research at an international conference despite losing my formal trousers.
A month has passed since I first started studying at ITMO in this wonderful city — the grand creation of Peter the Great — and I’ve decided to share the experiences I’ve lived so far, with other foreign students that are probably in their last year of high school and trying to figure out where to study next. In this post I am going to focus I little bit more on the side of the university life as opposed to life in Saint Petersburg.
School was over with, graduating seniors were hosted a celebration with champagne and biscuits, cloaks and diplomas rolled tightly and decorated with red lace that was tied into a voluminous bow. I knew this was an ending but, also a new beginning.
For a long time people didn’t comprehend such unusual phenomena as lights appearing in the sky and self-glowing lighting of some minerals, insects and plants. Currently we know how it works and furthermore, how one can induce and control this unstable process. Read about fluorescence which was firstly marked during an experiment with rotten fish and eventually turned into a tool for treatment.
