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

• Dream Finally Came True

  …the city in Germany, where the university is situated, I was assigned a tutor, who helped me to take some first steps. I moved into a really nice dorm, made a contract with an insurance company, registered at the local office. All in all, the first days in Darmstadt were absolutely busy. However, I enjoyed it, since, to my amusement, the city turned out to be quite n…

  09.06.2017

• Globalization is Here

  …nal experience and language skills are often an asset in job hunting. Moreover, societies need individuals who have firsthand knowledge of foreign countries to work in all the institutions and companies. In this way, if you decide to go abroad, there are benefits both for you individually and for your home and target countries. I myself have studied on exchange in R…

  05.06.2017

• By the Bonfire

  …gade called "Славяне" (Slavs), but there are also many different brigades, like the pedagogues, which are like the boy scouts; train stewards, who work in the summer aboard trains to different destinations; medical ones, helping patients in clinics and other places; you name it. The one I joined — the construction brigade — is, as you may have guessed, about doing c…

  18.05.2017

• Getting involved

  …onference in which I took part recently. I had been to other conferences before, but never was I the person behind the microphone, nor was I the person answering the questions instead of asking them. My Russian teacher came up with the idea that I should take part in a conference that was for foreign students, and offered me as a way of getting the credit that I need…

  01.05.2017

• TOGETHER, WE RISE

  …aking advantage of the lunch break to do some errands. The usual routine when suddenly chaos struck. A bomb had exploded in a tunnel between Metropolitan Stations "Technologic Institute" and "Sennaya Ploshad'" causing immediate sudden deaths and terrible injuries to those innocents around the man who decided to disrupt the peaceful everyday life underground. The seco…

  06.04.2017

• New Year, a time for hope, celebration, and for studying

  …e for me for the next 4 years or so. If the end of the year used to be a synonym of relaxation and enjoying some quality before, now it’s quite the opposite. The "sessiya' begins just as the year ends and it ends somewhere mid-January. Now, let me explain to you dear reader what the "sessiya' is all about — in case you are not a university student in Russia. The "se…

  23.03.2017

• University Life Goes Beyond the Campus

  …usso-Finnish wars and the Great Patriotic War (both took place during the WWII). One of the buildings that hasn’t been rebuilt is an old church which is almost completely in ruins, and the reason for that is to preserve the memories of the soldiers, both Finnish and Russians but especially the former. After the walk around the city, some of us bought ourselves some …

  13.02.2017

• Saint Petersburg: a city of wonders

  …t comfortable before submerging for hours in a world of surrealism, history, or knowledge. Being a metropolis, life in Saint Petersburg flies by. Every day is a race against the clock, especially for students. Saint Petersburg is a city that practically never sleeps, and alike many cities of its caliber, it holds nighttime activities such as clubbing, night si…

  30.11.2016

• Time keeps going, and it doesn’t stop

  … as the different devices we use to today to connect to the internet with different people around the globe; there’s even a whole, real telecommunications satellite on display inside the courtyard of the museum! On the sports side of things, I’ve also recently gotten my subscription for the swimming pool, so next week I will start swimming after a long of not practic…

  14.11.2016