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• Guide on IT meetups in St. Petersburg. Part 2: Softcore and Hardcore

  … manner of stand-up comics. For example, once a speaker began his speech with the phrase, "I am a CSS coder, I do not know JavaScript." After a short explanation how to solve one problem entirely on CSS, he stepped back and disappeared into the dark. Then he has come back to the scene in black sunglasses, "I am a JavaScript programmer and I will show you how t…

  02.04.2019

• Experiences with Teaching at ITMO

  … the Russian students to adjust to the unfamiliar teaching language, but usually after one or two units everything worked nicely, as could be seen by the way the students were solving their homework without problems. What's nice here in Russia is that it seems to be common for students to say "Thank you!" to the teacher at the end of a lecture. In Austria, the cul…

  05.03.2019

• Why diets do not work?

  …ou weigh as long as it doesn’t harm your health. In conclusion, I must say that the problem of the acceleration of metabolism and overcoming hidden hunger overcoming is not solved yet. Scientists haven’t come up with a solution yet! Therefore, the best thing that we can do for ourselves is to stay healthy!…

  01.02.2019

• Big science communication story in Russia born from a small networking coincidence

  …frastructure within the university was only part of the deal. Anna felt that there was a need for a full-fledged educational programme, such as a master’s degree, that would resolve existing staffing issues and further professionalize SciComm in Russia. As someone holding a degree in the field, I knew exactly what she meant and I also realized that this initiative co…

  10.12.2018

• My Experience Studying Soft Skills at ITMO

  …s, where teachers explained about strategies, influence, areas of interest, and the use of game theory in negotiations. Then the students used this knowledge in practice: they solved cases, examined various situations, accepting various parties to the conflict. I especially liked that the lectures used fragments from movies to explain the material. For example, have …

  26.11.2018

• ITMO… It’s More Than a University.

  …s 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

• New adventure in Russia? Welcome on board!

  …rm or wherever you decide to live, make at least one friend. Someone who can help you discover this new world and guide you. Eventually, you will become like partners in crime solving mysteries and having fun. I have a theory that goes like this: "we always come across with angels that life puts in our path, they appear so we can overcome some challenges and in retur…

  30.01.2018

• Unexpected Pleasures

  …expectations and hopes into account than lots of us are used to. Hereby I'm going to explain why using a simple example. While planning an academic exchange, I had to resolve the issue with my permission to stay abroad. As I am staying there for more than half a year, that was a toughie and the red tape started months before I left, even in Russia. For sure, I…

  11.01.2018

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

  … many countries in the colonial war period. A solution consisting of water and quinine was named tonic water. Now one can easily find it at a drugstore. It is far easier to dissolve quinine in alcohol than in water. This chemical peculiarity is likely to explain how gin and tonic appeared. This cocktail was popular in England thanks to its prophylactic effect. The…

  13.07.2016