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• St. Petersburg to Finland on a Budget

  …s do. The viewpoint that I have visited is Hyyppäänvuori, takes around 30 mins to reach it by car from Jyväskylä. The place has given me thrills when I was gazing out on the astonishing landscape. Just by looking at the scenery, you can sense such a harmony with the nature, your state of mind will be detached from your current issues, your anxiety will fade away, lea…

  09.09.2019

• Is Arkhangelsk the Real Capital of Russia?

  …f being just right, and Arkhangelsk is the exemplar of the principle, making it a kind of recursive, fractal, just-right-ness that serves to magnify the city into a kind of Platonic ideal. …

  20.12.2018

• A Visit to a Finnish primary school: Two Days Experience in Varkaus

  … "How do you know English so well?", I asked one boy. "My father only speaks English to me". Another boy I met turned out to speak 4 languages: Finnish, English, Russian and Estonian, and since 6th grade he is going to learn Swedish as a compulsory language for all Finnish students. Well, to say that I was shocked in a good way would be an understatement. Vark…

  13.12.2018

• Higher Education in Belgium: My Personal Experience

  …. By that time the first month of studying in Russia is almost over, right? On that very first day at classes, there was a kick-off session with students of European MSc in Photonics where the learning process and upcoming events were explained. It was quite helpful in the sense that it gave a clear overview of what’s ahead. What was explained there? 1. Grade syst…

  02.12.2018

• Living and Studying in Brussels: The Heart of Europe

  …niversity with diverse research and study fields and nearly 20% of international students. I’m studying at the Engineering faculty together with students of European MSc in Photonics program of both first and second year. Again, only 3 Belgian students are there, all the others are international — Egyptian, Ghanian, Indian, Spanish, Iranian, Albanian, Italian, etc. W…

  08.11.2018

• The Time I Saw the Queen… Twice

  … Let’s take it from the beginning, sound good? Antonina Puchkovskaia, head of the DH-lab at ITMO, and I collaborated together with students to create a book called Generation Z on Digital Culture. You’ll learn more about this project in a whole separate post, but the main idea is "we made a book." We also received the opportunity to present the book at Loughborou…

  01.11.2018

• 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 fro…

  21.08.2018

• Having fun in Tallinn

  …Besides all the startup and tech novelties, Estonia has the biggest amount of pubs and saunas per square kilometer, it helps Estonians bask in the cold weather. I studied in Tallinn University of Technology with one of the modern campuses in Europe. All of the university buildings, dormitories and hostels are located in the same place.…

  25.10.2017

• The semester at the foreign university is not only about studying

  …et per email. There is either no payment or just a small entrance fee required for attending sports. There are some kinds of sports, which are common and will not cause any astonishment. Those are, for example, swimming, volleyball, football. However, there are some kinds of sports, which I have never seen in my life before. For instance, there is a group at the uni…

  05.09.2017

• Green Light to Medicine! Fluorescence: from a Mysterious Phenomenon to Medication

  …nown that quinine is used for malaria treatment during epidemics that spread in many countries in the colonial war period. A solution consisting of water and quinine was named tonic water. Now one can easily find it at a drugstore. It is far easier to dissolve quinine in alcohol than in water. This chemical peculiarity is likely to explain how gin and Subscribe

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