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• From University of Campinas in Brazil to ITMO University in Russia

  …that remind you of yourself. In other words, you face a cultural shock and this makes your identity become remodeled in a way that you start seeing things differently but also want to attain to the self of you that you know; therefore, the most reliable thing to do is to look out for people in the same situation as you (other exchange students, who face a really simi…

  25.09.2019

• St. Petersburg to Finland on a Budget

  …ts. Moreover, Allegro trains provide their customers with easier border control procedure and faster travelling overall. Nevertheless, buses are definitely an option if you want to travel on a budget, even though the time and border controlling procedures are longer. Some of the options are Ecolines, LuxExpress, and BusFor. Traveling within Finland is easy with co…

  09.09.2019

• My Student Exchange in Czech: Buddy System

  …o much food, so they had to take a taxi to the dorm, where they were going to cook all the dishes. As you already know, Zlin is a small city, so it was really astounding. They wanted to bake vegetables, so by false pretences they got into a dormitory, which had an oven in its kitchen. All dishes they cooked were packed in containers collected all over the campus dorm…

  12.08.2019

• Studies and University Life in the Czech Republic: Student Exchange

  …by software for visualizing projects of the future. The main building, where we had the first meeting is shown above, and the inside of the building is below. Do you want to see a photo of the lecture hall? Here it is. Library It’s my pleasure to tell you about my favorite place — the university’s library. The library is amazing and you really …

  23.07.2019

• Buddy System: My First Experience as a Buddy

  … best clubs at ITMO. The main purpose of the club is providing assistance for international students who arrive from abroad. Club members' are called "buddies". If you’ve ever wanted to join the "Buddy system" club, you must make sure you are ready for the following steps and, of course, you must speak English. At first, as a "buddy" you are to meet your internationa…

  21.07.2019

• Sweet Business

  …s, I would have so many orders and I would make money making cakes! And I got hooked and one day I realized I was dreaming about creating desserts as famous pastry chefs do! I wanted to make not only delicious food, but also beautiful. They should bring people both gourmet pleasure and aesthetic delight. Desserts should excite and tickle people. The very way a desser…

  09.07.2019

• Life in the Czech Republic as an International Student

  …ns. Later I found out that in my dormitory there was one kitchen, toilet and shower on each floor. I was afraid they could be always occupied. The best thing was that everyone wanted to live in an apartment type, so my dormitory was almost empty. It was amazing! (By the way, you can take a closer look at the dorm in Google maps). I think I have to tell you about c…

  28.06.2019

• 10 Things to Remember and Do When Participating in International Student Programming Competitions

  …ems and too little time to spend all of it on one problem. If you don’t know if there’s a bug in your code or you have written a hard problem with many tricky cases and don’t want to get a lot of penalty points for a wrong solution, you might implement a stress test. A stress test is a way to automate the process of testing your solution. To use it, you need to writ…

  30.05.2019

• Guide on IT meetups in St. Petersburg. Part 3: Events for Data Scientists

  …metimes researchers from other universities come to share their experience. A month ago IFMO and Huawei Lab started to organize seminars on Natural Language Processing. If you want to know what absolute hardcore is, visit seminar on acoustics in the RAS. The participants discuss unsolved problems in mathematics. Very few people, if any, could ever understand formulas…

  20.05.2019

• A Sunday at the Beach

  …people literally walking on a frozen sea! The water had frozen and turned to ice. The view was breathtaking! I couldn’t believe that even the sea was frozen. She asked me if I want to try as well, to walk on ice! Of course I took the chance. While we were walking further and further, I noticed that the people around us were all smiling and happy, taking pictures, adm…

  07.05.2019