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• Soviet Movies For the Winter Holidays

  …t buildings as much as a holiday love story, which explains the otherwise rather weird pretext of the movie. The main character, Zhenya, goes to a banya in Moscow to celebrate New Year's with his friends. After having one drink too many, however, he ends up on a plane to St. Petersburg and gives the taxi driver his Moscow home's address, arriving at a building identi…

  03.01.2020

• Ready Player One: Games We Play Over the Holidays

  …ouse in the other, debating what to do next and making guesses as to who was the main suspect. Later, as we got more and more involved with the game series and purchased every new game as soon as it was released, we started competing with each other, trying to finish the game faster than our companion. I wish we hadn’t done it, as it lead to us cheating in order to s…

  02.01.2020

• Our New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

  …Anastasia K. I think my resolution for the new year would be to screw all resolutions and just wing it, because I’ve had enough of all this motivational shizzle at this point in time. I have one specific thing I’d like to persevere with, though, which is to become more eco-friendly because the planet is literally on fire and I kind of like this Earth of ours (thou…

  01.01.2020

• What is Your Word for 2019?

  …something good."  Elena Borisova, director of the Student Services Office "The word on my mind is “changes”. To me, this has been my most eventful year at ITMO, with new goals and new people. Changes often frighten us, but a difficult transition period is usually followed by the realization that everything has been for the bes…

  31.12.2019

• Speak like a Russian: New Year’s Words

  …by saying “Поздравляю с … ” (pozdravlyau s, I congratulate you + with) and adding what exactly you congratulate them on, or just stating the occasion, which in our case is the New Year: “C Новым Годом!” (s novym godom!). Basically, the longer version is the more formal one that’s usually used in writing, and the shorter one is what's used in the common speech.  An…

  30.12.2019

• Our 2019, Illustrated

• Quantum Computers, Time Crystals, and Artificial Cells: 2019 in Science

  …a very long time. And now there is an actual company that spends its resources wisely and is investing in and trying to create these devices.  Secondly, I would mention the news about He Jiankui, the Chinese researcher who altered the genes of embryos in an attempt to make them HIV-resistant and claimed that he had succeeded. Although it’s not a straightforward ca…

  30.12.2019

• Song of the Month: December 2019

  …al time, many voices and chords had to support me through the trials and tribulations of early exams and tests, including but not limited to Birdy’s A Team and Jacob Collier’s new single Time Alone With You, the jam of the century. The one song that stood out most, however, was Into the Unknown by Panic! At the Disco, which YouTube kindly offered to me somewhere arou…

  27.12.2019

• Micro-Mobility, Fiber Concrete, Nanomaterials: Students Propose Innovations for ITMO Highpark Campus

  …How to make a new university campus be built from the most modern and eco-friendly materials? How to prevent raindrops from breaking down roads circumventing the building, and making them adorn the campus’s territory instead? Usually, students can’t influence these decisions, but not in ITMO Highpark project. ITMO students can participate in special workshops with di…

  27.12.2019

• Jozef Stephan Institute’s Miha Cimperman on Data Forecasting in Rail and Energy Industries

  …ted the results of introducing demand forecasting into real-life economic sector scenarios in Europe and the recent advances in this field.  Big Data has been employed in renewable energy production for several years now. Solar and wind power generators alike have always been collecting data. Thanks to Big Data, machine learning and forecast analytics, all of this…

  27.12.2019