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• Travelling. Is it Worth it?

  …mewhere far far away. The thing is that if you don’t try it on your own, you’ll never understand it. You’ll never understand how beautiful Venice is in the rain, how mysterious Prague is at night, how amazing Paris is at sunset. I’ll never forget my first cup of Italian cappuccino, my first glance at Elysian Fields, my first Couchsurfing friend (Couchsurfing i…

  08.10.2019

• Does Sports Programming Exist Beyond St. Petersburg?

  …. By bringing my teams to St. Petersburg I managed to make friends with our main competitors' trainer and I still owe him a hundred rubles for a pie he bought me at ITMO’s cafeteria. Despite many obstacles, and they are not always the question of money, in my region there are enthusiasts who do their best working with children.…

  16.08.2019

• Studies and University Life in the Czech Republic: Student Exchange

  …As I shared in the first post, Zlin is a modern city of students, so Tomas Bata University is really neoteric. It has a lot of modern buildings which are internally well thought-out. Occasionally everything seemed unreal to me, because these buildings look like as if they were drawn by software for visualizing projects of the future. The main building, where we ha…

  23.07.2019

• Relationship Between Students and Educators at ITMO University

  …from my academic exchange in VUB, Brussels, three of the professors I interact the most with and my thesis supervisor were genuinely interested in my experience and I shared materials and findings with them. The open dialogue that was a norm from the very beginning with educators in my MSc program was one of the most important things that made me wonder and learn mor…

  18.07.2019

• Sweet Business

  …pation and make them unable to cope with the temptation to try. Luckily, we live in a surprising age when any information is available, so it wasn’t a problem to find materials on different recipes and techniques. There are lots of them on the Internet. I think I’ve watched thousands of professional videos and read about the same number of articles written by …

  09.07.2019

• Exchange Semester in Seoul

  … is so developed and I was amazed by the facilities in the uni’s dormitory. I had been living in my own room and had to share a bathroom with only one person. There were 4 cafeterias on campus which consisted of 33 buildings, but there are also a lot of different restaurants and cafes, which are not too expensive. The city itself is full of entertainment. I would say…

  08.02.2019

• Women in IT

  …inating — you’re trying to make things that don’t exist." Erna Schneider Hoover (born 1926) Erna Schneider Hoover is an American mathematician and the inventor of a computerized telephone switching method. Many believe that to have been the beginning of "a revolution in modern communication". This method allows an automated telephone station to monitor the load…

  08.01.2019

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

  …utside Go are cut off by organizers. Each receive more than a hundred registrations for a meetup which is approved manually after verification. However, there are no formal criteria to refuse a person to participate (except HR-managers). Between the crowds gathered by marketing and the quality of communion, organizers choose the latter. Unlike other IT-communities, g…

  21.12.2018

• Indulgence and Nutrition — What to Eat in Belgium

  …s of a high quality and they are not salty (almost at all). The perfect combo for fries would be a sauce, a drink and a breaded piece of cheese or meat. Fries from the cafeteria at Vrije Universiteit Brussel Where to try? The best ones so far have been in Ghent and Bruges. In Brussels, I prefer Fritland and VUB cafeteria. When…

  19.12.2018

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

  …ack of funding that had been co-acting against SciComm development. It was first announced in 2012 by Russian president Vladimir Putin with the goal of five top universities entering top-100 of one of international academic rankings (THE, QS, AWRU) by 2020. 15 (later 21) universities were chosen based on competition and got both additional funding and strong motivati…

  10.12.2018