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Do We Live In the Future?
…ks the same way as the usual campus card. Now all forgetful students can just switch on their mobile phones and go to the lesson. One more novelty this year is free kicksharing for students. Kicksharing is scooter rental. These scooters are everywhere in St. Petersburg and they are very expensive but very convenient for those who…
02.10.2020
My Turn to Walk the Dog: Moving Back Home During the Pandemic
…they have developed while living away from home, for family life in a kind of state of emergency, but they also have the advantage of having a lot more space than in the small shared apartment or room in the dormitory in their university city. And sometimes at home they even have a garden. My parents live in a small city in western Germany and have a big old house…
25.09.2020
Ibraheem’s Expeditions: Nevsky Prospect
… museum", so now I have the same interest and passion about living in St. Petersburg and telling the world how it looks in the eyes of a foreigner. In a series of posts I will share my thoughts and experience moving around in this city not like a tourist, but as an international student in one of the most nontraditional universities in the world, ITMO. Now it is c…
21.09.2020
Using Mobile Devices for Everyday Productivity
…is effectively organizing our time, and mobile devices make it very simple to do so. Over the course of my undergraduate studies, I tried tons of different apps, and I want to share some with you so that you can also seize the means of productivity and time management :) The basic recipe involves just three ingredients. All you need is a tool to manage tasks, a sc…
15.09.2020
Why Don’t People Read Anymore?
…ur life. The most important thing is to filter the information and be critical about everything you see. In the times of Pushkin nobody had a Facebook profile where anyone can share any poem and get an immediate response. My point is the world is changing so fast that we have to follow. It doesn’t make us less useful or less smart. It makes us multi-tasking, self-…
16.06.2020
Summer Palace of Peter the Great | Peterhof
…aught the bus back to St. Petersburg. Even if you don’t go inside the palace itself, the gardens will take your breath away. I hope next time to visit inside the palace and share with you my experiences.…
29.05.2020
Myths and Truths About the Students Services Office
…ion of university rules. We sincerely hope you don’t fall under any of the above-mentioned categories which might cause you to be expelled. 2. The SSO has a mighty power to share the access to the internal system with anyone who wants it Unfortunately, that’s a myth. There is an even higher power that can perform such actions — Department of Academic Affairs. T…
22.05.2020
Let Yourself Be Unproductive
…plate the path of success of my groupmates, former classmates, being productive and having fun. The impression is that they are keeping the situation under control and proudly share their accomplishments — doing a plank for 5 minutes, home-made bread, B1 in Spanish. It is no wonder that your inner critic wakes up blaming you for doing nothing, because we want to be t…
20.05.2020
The Prospects of St. Petersburg’s Subway System
…ame speed and on the same scale. Here we are facing a very strange approach in St. Petersburg metro building — some terminal stations, such as Devyatkino, Parnas, Kupchino, Shushary and Rybatskoe are built to be terminal, meaning they are all located above ground and cannot provide changing the direction without paying for a new ticket, shortly said — are deprived of…
06.05.2020
Distance Learning during a Pandemic
… we have to use the app called "Zoom" to communicate with teachers and our group at a particular time. So, this process is similar to a class before the pandemic. I want to share with you some tricky situations which students and teachers are facing during distance learning. The only problems for students are sound and connection quality. Sometimes it is tricky to…
29.04.2020