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

  …en, the holidays, the time to celebrate and be with your family and friends. However, for university students there is a lot more going on. Before celebrating the arrival of a new year there are quite a lot of things that need be done for a student. This time of the year has another name for university students here, the winter examination-session, or how they actual…

  23.03.2017

• University Life Goes Beyond the Campus

  …Russians, but by the Swedes. The town became part of the Russian Empire when Peter the Great took it from the Swedes so the border would be farther from Saint Petersburg, then new capital-to-be. The main town landmark is the Vyborg castle, built by the Swedes when they founded the settlement. The castle is located on a small island in the Vyborg Bay and is character…

  13.02.2017

• Saint Petersburg: a city of wonders

  …taste, but goes very well with the items from the menu. Pelmeni, Chebureki, black bread, cutlets and many more items in the Russian menu have given my flavor palate completely new perspective about food in general.…

  30.11.2016

• Time keeps going, and it doesn’t stop

  …Although I enjoy winter, and I’ve liked it since the first time I got acquainted with a real winter last year in Moscow, for university students it not only means cold, snow, New Year celebrations and Holidays. For university students, the coming of winter also the means the time to prepare oneself for the real tests to come, the semester exams, otherwise known in Ru…

  14.11.2016

• Life in the Northern Capital

  …I have ended up, sure, one as a student has a lot of stuff to do, but one eventually finds the time to do the things that one enjoys the most. So I am still looking forward on new surprises, and what else this city and this university have to offer. And remember, you may have been around half the world, but if you haven't been in Petersburg you haven't been anywhere!…

  24.10.2016

• Computational Science in San Diego, or How I Lost my Trousers

  …or "Troyka" in Moscow), deposited some money and started to wait for bus № 992. *** After making two bus changes I reached my hotel. It was the right time to think about new clothes, as due to this incident in the airport I had none at all. One of the hotel’s employees gave me information about local malls and I started shopping. San Diego In a couple…

  18.10.2016

• A freshman’s first month in Saint Petersburg

  …ormer. I have already become active in some extracurricular activities — including a mechatronics workshop -, I have gotten to know a lot of great people, among whom I’ve made new friends, and I’ve learnt a lot of new stuff, not only from the lectures, but from life itself in the university. All of the above only makes me wonder, if thi…

  07.10.2016

• Every story has an ending, but in life endings are new beginnings

  …ve hours of continuous flight should definitely sound like something scary for a freshly graduated eighteen-year-old-girl but, for me it was just the starting point of a fresh new story (or should I call it «adventure'?). It took a lot of courage to say goodbye to my family at the airport, knowing that I was departing from a lifestyle I had known for a lifetime but,…

  30.09.2016

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

  …. The great philosopher Aristotle, who lived in Ancient Greece, studied fluorescence when observing a process of fish rotting. More than 1,000 years ago Chinese sages already knew about minerals that could glow in the dark — back then non-organic luminophores (a chemical matter, which turns adsorbed energy into light) were discovered. In 1555 Swiss scholar Konrad Je…

  13.07.2016