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• Fish Out of Water: Navigating the Challenges of Studying Abroad

  …t will take time. Such situations have had an impact on my mental health and it’s hard for me to speak up. But this is hurting my studies and my ambitions of excelling in this new country. How can I find the best way to deal with this feeling?   Therapist’s advice:  In this case, try using a counter-intuitive approach: tell people about your accent yourself,…

  23.05.2023

• ITMO and Yandex Collaborate on This Year’s ITMO Open Education Conference

  …tok. “Why would a leading university want to join efforts with the biggest tech company in the country? The goal is to create a platform for discussion that would lead to new ideas and perspectives on the prospects of education. We deliberately avoid routine topics like educational standards and teaching units. At the Open Education conference, our aim is to loo…

  22.05.2023

• Old and New Slavic Wedding Traditions

  …ould easily confuse it with… a funeral. Not because the event was considered tragic per se, but because it meant that the bride symbolically died as a young girl and entered a new stage of her life as a married woman. Such an approach was especially widespread in the Russian North; in this case, the wedding, as well as the devichnik (bachelorette party), was accompan…

  22.05.2023

• Yandex’s New Contest Lets Students Try Their Hand at Teaching IT

• Fun & Wacky Sports to Try in St. Petersburg: Part 2

• (Un)Popular Science: Making Research Accessible

  …cial initiative. Both groups were asked how often they interacted with science-oriented content. Only 19% of students and 22% of volunteers claimed to regularly check relevant news outlets, while 56% and 33%, respectively, said they only did this from time to time. Next, the researchers tried to look at the roots of this lack of interest: 55% of all respondents st…

  18.05.2023

• Student Spotlight: Makha Karkout, Syria

  …ved in St. Petersburg and I'm currently enrolled in the Foundation Program, which provides an excellent opportunity to learn the language and get immersed in the culture of my new home. St. Petersburg is a long way from Syria! Could you tell us a bit about its people and culture? Syria, also known as “Sham,” is a Middle Eastern country on the eastern coast of t…

  18.05.2023

• ITMO Scientists Create Improved Optical Module for AR Devices

  …ds to incorporate multiple precisely-positioned layers, making them a lot harder to manufacture. The solution A solution that ITMO scientists came up with utilizes a new approach to manufacturing combiners for AR devices. By using volume holography, they lowered the overall weight of the device (since it requires only one layer of waveguides), protected it …

  17.05.2023

• The Battle of Capitals: St. Petersburg vs Moscow

• Get Into IT With ITMO’s State-Supported Professional Development Programs