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• St. Petersburg to Finland on a Budget

  …hei, moi, terve", thank you as "kiitos" and excuse me as "anteeksi", especially because you pronounce them exactly as they’re written. Fun fact: the Finnish language has no specific word for please, so if you want to order a coffee, "one coffee, please" would be "yksi kahvi, kiitos". With this, I am saying that you will pretty much surprise a local, since they…

  09.09.2019

• Discover the Museum that Shows You Mini-Russia

  …s. The whole layout is equipped with roads and railways and platforms on which trains run. During your visit to the museum, you may notice the museum photographers. They specifically observe and photograph museum visitors so that at the exit from the Grand Layout you can purchase commemorative magnets with your photo. In the museum you feel as though you are a …

  08.04.2019

• Experiences with Teaching at ITMO

  …ed a dataset for evaluating word embeddings trained on the Polish original version of "The Witcher" (by Andrzej Sapkowski). He also addressed the additional Polish-language specific difficulties encountered in pre-processing the text. But, as with everything in life, there is light and shadow. Just this week things went a bit wrong, when for the first two hours of…

  05.03.2019

• 5 Things to Know About Dating a Programmer

  …er or create drama. Empathy comes naturally. Your programmer date will understand your little quirks and preferences. Just like a customer may want an app to incorporate a specific design, you might wish for a certain behavior from your date at times. They won’t treat your unique needs as stupid — they know everyone has their own requirements. They’ll always have w…

  26.02.2019

• Guide on IT meetups in St. Petersburg. Part 1: Hardcore Meetups

  …hort introduction Programmers need to focus on performing highly specialized tasks. However, the market is changing dynamically, and it may be difficult for experts with specific specializations to adapt. Moreover, in recent years there is a demand for full-stack developers who are capable to apply skills from a wide range of areas. For example, backenders and fro…

  21.12.2018

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

  …would be an understatement. Varkaus school has some of their own unique features, for example, motivating the best student, who was active in a particular class with specific cards, or providing pupils with tablets that they can use in class and breaks. Children seemed to me highly educated and extremely motivated. They were keeping their attention throughout …

  13.12.2018

• What stereotypes do you know about Russia?

  …is part of my life! Walking around with a bunch of Indian students? — Easy. Talking about literature and philosophy with a Slovenian student? — No problem. Listening to the specifics of German culture from a German student? — You're welcome. So with all this experience of talking with foreigners, I wasn’t too shy to ask them what they had heard about Russia before…

  10.10.2018

• ITMO… It’s More Than a University.

  …move on to developing a type of living lab where students take part in what is essentially a term-long hackathon, developing, designing, and implementing applications for a specific, targeted purpose, such as a mobile gaming app or solving a relevant business problem.…

  20.09.2018

• Dream Finally Came True

  …ery lecture is shown there, so you can easily keep track of your study plan. The most interesting for me is that there is no fixed curriculum. You don't have to go to some specific lectures at some specific time. The student himself determines what and when he will study. Of course, there are some obligatory subjects, that one should s…

  09.06.2017

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

  … still some left, which meant I would still have to work after the new year. Fortunately, we had at least a week to take a rest from the stresses of student life, and more specifically the stresses from the "sessiya'. Now, you may be wondering, why didn’t we get any Christmas vacations in December? Well, the thing is that we did get Christmas vacations, but it wasn’…

  23.03.2017