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• How ITMO Celebrates the First Day of the New Academic Year

  …dition to study and sports and how to implement all your initiatives. Many people became interested in the tent with the Guitar Hero game, in which they could compete in speed, reaction and ability to play the guitar. Nearby was a marquee with Fifa 18 (I am a big fan) on Playstation, a racing simulator where everyone could feel like a Formula 1 pilot and a photobo…

  04.09.2018

• E-Residency Around the Corner

  …For those unfamiliar with all that Estonia does, it’s at the forefront of the government transition to e-services. One such prominent example is its presidential elections. Estonian citizens all receive a unique digital signature known only to them, and using that signature, they can cast their vote for the candidate of their choice from wherever they are. Just imagi…

  21.08.2018

• Impressions, Expectations and How It’s Really Like

  …university with such high-tech expertise couldn’t be the worst choice. I communicated a lot with the ITMO international office, in those couple of months before the exchange. My predictions about the Russian bureaucracy turned out to be wrong. Everything went extremely well, and I really want to give the merit of that to the international office staff — they deserve …

  27.02.2018

• Curious Things You Might Not Know About St. Petersburg

  …a Street and the Victory Square. This road further connects to Pulkovo Highway which goes to Moscow. All of this is perfectly aligned with the meridian of Pulkovo. This level of perfectionism was beyond my imagination. Windy City Here, I must confess that my secret passion is architecture. This next topic has been running wild in my mind for months now. We …

  16.02.2018

• New adventure in Russia? Welcome on board!

  … address, asking other students where to get you Dorm ID, or how to get a better room…asking around will help you make new friends and survive in a place where there are no clear directions and everything is a puzzle. Think of it as a video game where the only way to get to the next phase is asking everything. Politeness and a smile on your face will get you extra po…

  30.01.2018

• Turn and Face the Strange

  … Recently we were chatting with my mate which I haven't been talking to for ages and suddenly she concluded that with the years I remain the same. Notwithstanding her additional corrections that it is a complement to my teenage sparkling manners of dialogue, my first persistence of this words was negative. I wondered, am I that stuck on the point I used to be …

  25.12.2017

• Hello, world!

  … plenty of things that I am interested in. For instance, I am interested in cars starting from my early childhood. I've learned about twenty car brands at the age of four, had a collection of car models and even had my own kart (which I am selling right now, so if someone is interested in getting a kart for a younger brother — welcome). Today, as I am becoming an old…

  26.10.2017

• Weekend getaway: Petrozavodsk

  … On this island there is the famous Kizhi Pogost, an ensemble of two wooden churches and a bell tower from the beginning of the 18th century. However, the Pogost is not the only attraction of the island, as more than 80 historical wooden structures have been brought there from the surrounding areas to make a huge open-air museum. Here you can observe how people have …

  14.07.2017

• Comparing student unions — the case of ITMO and University of Helsinki

  …feature of the work of different student organizations is democracy. This seems to be one of the essential values of both student unions in my home university and in ITMO. An open election is organized every year in order to choose a new board for each organization. One of the aspects I have been observing is the motivation that students have to spend their precious…

  06.07.2017

• The St. Petersburg of Foodies: The Holy Trinity of Russian cuisine

  … only around 250 rubles. From the name of this restaurant chain most of you probably understood that their specialties are the tasty salty and sweet pies. There is an impressive selection of them with different fillings from meat and potatoes to berries and apples. Moreover, salads here meet the solid Russian standard, and especially soups are delicious. Ordering i…

  20.06.2017