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Starting Your Career at Facebook: ITMO Graduate on Internships and Working in London
…, as the majority of my colleagues were from Eastern Europe. At XTX, I work mostly with British or Irish people, so I have to be careful when criticising someone. Your story breaks the stereotype that working at a major IT company is the best you can do in your career. On the contrary, you started at Facebook and then came into a smaller organization. Exa…
10.06.2020
We Made It in the Spirit of Apple: Former ITMO Student on Revolutionary Translator App
…ITMO.NEWS got in touch with Arseny to talk about the uniqueness of the project, the story behind it, and the plans for its future development. Live in the future and do what is missing Tell us about your app. How is it different from hundreds of other translator apps? It’s a dictionary and a translator with brand new mechanics. Here’s how it works: you poin…
08.06.2020
Movie Fridays: Middleditch & Schwartz
…s these serve as a basis for aren’t commonplace in the slightest. In one episode, the two manage to put together a surprisingly coherent, but still completely bonkers, storyline of a wedding that, apart from the main couple, features a sulking cast-off lover, well liquored up parents, a rowdy sibling, and even a ghost. Another one starts as a law school exam …
05.06.2020
Weini Teweldebrhan: Studying in Russia Is an Experience I Wouldn’t Trade for Anything
…Tell us more about where you are from. I am from Eritrea, a country with a long history of educational relations with Russia. Most people haven’t heard of it, but after reading about it they grow to admire its culture and history. My home town is called Keren: it is surrounded by mountains, it’s the second largest city of the coun…
04.06.2020
Love Diversity (and Exploring!) Like a Russian
…diversity. "People are different, the country is one" is the running tag. Two things jumped out at me: the narrator is a bear who changes his outfits and gear based on the story he’s telling. In one episode he’s sporting shirts with traditional design while in others he’s decked out in a snowsuit or a navy uniform. Also, the style of the cartoons is similar to Pl…
01.06.2020
Science Communication, Digital Humanities, and Art & Science: Master’s Programs at ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership.
…in projects under expert supervision. The students are given an unusual set of disciplines that includes multimedia science journalism, scientometric data analysis, scientific storytelling and communication theory, global challenges of modern science, and corporate PR for research institutions. Next year, the program will be expanded with an elective course on data j…
29.05.2020
This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: More Theater & Opera Performances
…f Errors One of Shakespeare’s shortest (it’s still 2 hours 21 minutes, though) and most farcical comedies rife with slapstick humor, wordplay and puns, its plot based on a story by the Roman playwright Plautus, The Comedy of Errors tells the wild story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Antiphol…
27.05.2020
ITMO Highpark: All About ITMO University's Cutting-Edge New Campus
White Nights in St. Petersburg
…/ And Dusk directly (as if plotting / To keep the golden skies alight) / Hands on the torch to Dawn, allotting / A brief half-hour to cheated Night. White Nights, a short story by another Russian literary superstar – Fyodor Dostoevsky – has even inspired not one, not two, but nine film adaptations in the past 70 years! The most famous of them all, Luchino Viscon…
22.05.2020
R&D Projects Competition Winners On Their Creations and University Support
…ity to reequip the lab to our needs, buy all the necessary materials and pay salaries to our close-knit team. Explore St. Petersburg by gaming – an app for studying the history of the city (Project “Developing a mobile app to gamify the process of studying the history and culture of St. Petersburg”) Lada Maksimova, a Mast…
21.05.2020