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• Apps to Make Your Student Life Easier

  … start working with this website, you have to register and specify whether you are a student or a teacher. After that, you are given access to a page with the most popular and new tests and games, developed by the app’s other users. You can also go to the New K section in order to create a project of your own. You are free to choose wha…

  13.08.2019

• 5 Surprises about WCs in St. Petersburg

  … outhouses at someone’s dacha. Then there’s always McDonald’s, a tourist’s saviour around the world, so in all likelihood, you won’t be left stranded. Here’s what I wish I knew before I went: No gender designation. In many public spaces or restaurants there’d be two restrooms but there won’t be a sign, so you’re free to choose. It’s a little disconcerting…

  12.08.2019

• Procrastination: Blessing or a Curse?

  … on the now-adult subjects and analyzed their lives. According to the experiment’s results, those who demonstrated self-control were more successful in life. In 2018, a new study cast doubt on the results of the experiment. It turns out that all 90 subjects were the children of Harvard University staff. Quite a specific selection for a scientific experiment. W…

  12.08.2019

• FEDOR: Meet Russia’s First Robot Astronaut (Who Also Does Splits)

  …ubin.  The anthropomorphic robot “Fedor” will fly into the International Space Station on the Soyuz МС-14 spacecraft on August 22, 2019. Before the launch, it was given a new name: Skybot F-850. According to some news sources, the robot had to meet the usual Russian requirements to qualify for the flight to the ISS, with no additio…

  12.08.2019

• The Experiment: Living Zero Waste for a Week

  …. Just type “global warming”, “plastic crisis” and “climate emergency” in your search engine and start clicking away. Works a charm if you feel that hankering to buy something new and unnecessary. Shop in second-hand stores to avoid the fast-fashion Catch 22.  You don’t need that much to start – reduce and reuse come before recycling. The most sustainable option …

  09.08.2019

• Modern Visual Effects: Applications and Software

• How Games are Changing Education

  …r and his colleagues from MIT’s Education Arcade program explain how to create immersive educational games in their book Resonant Games. A market for “serious games” News outlets often describe educational games with the term “serious games”. In a general sense, serious games are the games where learning, or the acquirement of skills, are the main goal inst…

  09.08.2019

• Admission Campaign 2019 at ITMO University: Bachelor’s Programs

• 15 Talented Prospective Students Become Winners of 2019 ITMO.STARS Unique Achievements Contest

  … students had to provide a real-world proof of their knowledge and skills in the form of independently-developed software or an algorithm, an innovative or research project, a new device or piece of equipment, a social initiative, or awards obtained at various academic competitions and contests.  There is only one formal criterion: for a participant to pass the mi…

  08.08.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 10-11, 2019

  …om 8.30pm Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines from 650 rubles Taking place at the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines (which you can read more about in this article by ITMO.NEWS), the JazzLike live jazz evenings leave no place for the jazz hits so hackneyed that even the mainstream gets a bit sheepish and embarrassed at their first chords; what the guests will be …

  07.08.2019