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• Unexplored Saint Petersburg: The Bolshoi State Circus

  …was five or six. I remember the heavy doors, the marble staircase,  the scent of fresh sawdust, the red velvet of the seats and the hush that falls around the arena as the drumroll rocks the house. It was pure magic. As the live orchestra took their first note and the curtain lifted, giddy kids slid to the edge of their seats to watch riders do death-defying tric…

  22.02.2019

• How to Get a Job in Game Development

  …evelopment Technologies’ Master’s program: I would advise everyone to start off as an indie developer: it can be a great source of passive income if you’ve got the self-control for it. You’ll still be able to join a company later (and you’ll already have something in your portfolio, to boot), but creativity and vigor go away with age. Besides, I think that many pe…

  21.02.2019

• Career Guidance Hackathon: Winning Projects

  …help the citizens of St. Petersburg learn about new interesting places while playing. Registered users will be able to choose quests to their liking when they head out for a stroll. Apart from the winning projects, the jury denoted several individual projects that can help facilitate various educational processes. EduCI by Denis Tereshinko helps lecturers save tim…

  20.02.2019

• Lectures on International Business and a Medieval Feast: ITMO Master's Student on the Winter School at the Prague University of Finance and Administration

  …also solved cases for such renowned consulting companies as McKinsey and Oliver Wyman, as well as corporations such as Mars, Unilever, MTS, Raiffeisenbank and others. When I enrolled in my Master's program, I had more experience in business and consulting than in physics, even though I did an internship in Ireland during the last year of my Bachelor's program. At tha…

  20.02.2019

• “It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University

  …ills and public speaking. These skills will come in handy when the students begin working on their projects. Just like a year before, the winners will get the opportunity to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs at ITMO University without having to take entrance exams. The Winter School emphasizes interdisciplinary skills, and therefore all students will be sort…

  19.02.2019

• Brussels, Prague and Rio de Janeiro: Exchange Students Share Their Experiences

  … people walk around near-nude and covered in feathers and glitter is perfectly normal in that season. Pre-carnival parties happen once a week in January, and by the time March rolls around, there’s one every day. Carnival crowds move from one place to another, and if you’re not there at the start, you’ll also have to figure out where to catch up to them. The s…

  19.02.2019

• Ex-Executive Director of Nobel Foundation Michael Sohlman: How to Win the Nobel Prize

  …have to write, discover or create something that has never been done before. Many insights can be found in the biographies of previous Nobel Laureate. Education plays a key role: Herbert A. Simon, who won the Nobel Prize “for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations”, once did some interesting research on this topic. A…

  18.02.2019

• Movie Fridays: Disconnect… The Person You’re Trying to Reach is Currently Unavailable

• Project by ITMO Robotics Team Named Best at Baltic Science and Engineering Competition

  …Claiming the main prize in the robotics category this year were the trainees from the Creative Robotics Laboratory of ITMO University’s School of Computer Technologies and Control, eleven-graders at the Presidential Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №239 Vasily Dunaev and Dmitry Kharlapenko. The Creative Robotics Laboratory project is co-organized by ITMO with the Presi…

  15.02.2019

• Dmitri Mendeleev: Everything You Need to Know About the Inventor of Periodic Table

  …s public officials up to the civic governor. In what way were they different from the people Mendeleev would then get acquainted with in St. Petersburg, like Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov and others? The latter were the intellectuals who belonged to different social classes. They didn’t like the environment around them and wanted to change it, while the Decembrists were…

  14.02.2019