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• The Experiment: Testing Ways to Feel Alive in the Morning

  If, for you, the hardest part of the morning isn’t just opening your eyes and silencing a cannonade of alarms, but actually getting through the first hour awake, we feel you. In this article, we’ll be testing a few ways to shake off drowsiness and jump-start the day.

  19.09.2025

• The Experiment: Testing Folk Tips for Falling Asleep

  How can you fall asleep when you’ve just had an exciting and busy day and you’re already anticipating the next one? Having often struggled myself, I decided to search for various folk remedies or tips for falling asleep and test them for this article. For a fun twist, I turned to Consensus, a service that answers any question with summaries of relevant research papers. Read on to see folk wisdom scientifically tested and pick up a few sleep lifehacks!

  12.09.2025

• The Experiment: How to Get Things Done

  You sit down to write your thesis – and suddenly you just have to do something else: wash the dishes, pour yourself a glass of water, chat with a friend… Starting a daunting task can be so scary or unpleasant that we don’t get to it until the last possible moment. For this article, I’ve tried out some of the most popular – and at times contradictory – advice to help all the procrastinators out there, from frog-eating to muscle-pumping.

  08.04.2025

• The Experiment: Best Ways to Deal With Burnout

  This year, the usual winter energy drop just didn’t seem to want to go away for me any time soon. I also noticed that no tasks brought me joy anymore, I was almost always tired and almost never fulfilled, and everything had just sort of lost its point. A quick Google search later, I realized these symptoms looked suspiciously like burnout – and decided to do something about it. So I turned to the trusty internet to try out some common tips on dealing with burnout. Below is the result of my little experiment, which can hopefully act as a burnout prevention kit for anyone who also finds themselves struggling.

  25.03.2025

• The Experiment: How Healthy Food Can Improve Your Life

  The conversation around what is considered “healthy” in terms of food and the way we consume it has been going on for decades. As you know, we here at ITMO.NEWS love putting everything to the test – and a healthier diet is no exception. For this article, we reached out to Anastasia Antonova, a PhD student at the Faculty of Biotechnologies and the author of the course Introduction to Nutrition Science at ITMO, to talk about all things food and try them out first hand!

  18.02.2025

• Experiment: Applying For 200 Jobs in One Day

  The job market is rough. According to the Russian job posting service HeadHunter, it usually takes at least 2-3 months to land a job. In an attempt to speed up the process, I decided to test a modern solution to the problem – a job-hunting bot that allows you to apply for hundreds of listings in seconds.

  12.11.2024

• The Experiment: Facing My Fears

  I asked my colleagues to write a list of potentially scary things I could do – and then tried doing them all in just one day. Did conquering these fears make me fearless? Read on to find out.

  05.03.2024

• The Experiment: Digital Decluttering

  To tell you the truth, I never considered digital clutter that much of a problem – at least not before I actually tried getting rid of it. It was only after several failed attempts and lots of frustration that I began taking it seriously – seriously enough to make digital decluttering a week-long project. And this is what I’d like to share with you.

  15.12.2023

• The Experiment: Testing Internet’s Top Advice for Beating the Fall Blues

  In this story, I’m saying no to any weather- or season-related sadness with a mixture of tips found in a quick googling session. Do they really work? Find out with me as I brave cold showers and snuggle in wool sweaters. 

  24.10.2023

• The Experiment: Bucket List Summer

  We don’t know about you, but we’ve come across dozens of “summer bucket lists” online – they were almost begging us to try them out. So that’s what we did: took some items off random lists online, added our personal touch, and set off on adventures – big or small. Below, you will find our accounts of what happened next, which we hope will inspire you to run an experiment of your own this August.

  04.08.2023