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• Three Great Young Adult Fiction Books

  …entor and has to make many difficult decisions. The Ballad is quite spooky and in a way similar to The Handmaid's Tale, being an intentionally grotesque horror story. It contains everything I love the original trilogy for — realistic characters, the understandable motivation behind their actions, and complex human emotions. Anastasia Zavozova, a literary critic…

  23.04.2021

• Three Modern Russian Books to Read This Month

  …sful experiment and then wakes up in a St. Petersburg hospital in 1999 to start his life anew. The Aviator is, first and foremost, a great piece of writing. Secondly, it contains a surprisingly intriguing story, which sounds confusing at first. It’s something like Futurama but in post-soviet St. Petersburg. Eugene Vodolazkin once again proved that he is enormously…

  09.04.2021

• Keyboards Out: Online Exams During the Pandemic

  …I had two kinds of exams. First, oral exams & tests on Zoom and so-called take-home exams. With these take-home exams, during a certain period of time (24 hours), I could download my exam in the .doc format from the university´s DLC portal. After 90 minutes, I had to upload it again using the same portal. Since there was no video surveillance, this setting obvious…

  01.03.2021

• Studying in Germany on Russian Time

  …om all over the world or in a Skype call with my supervisor. Sometimes it works well, sometimes — not so much. While online teaching is also difficult for teachers, because certain things are simply not that easy to explain and online and the technical equipment does not always work perfectly — it is still all in all entertaining and in…

  09.12.2020

• My Experience of Attending the BioPrint Workshop Remotely

  …hrough electrostatic interactions. I was really amazed by the talk of Dr. Leonid Ionov from University of Bayreuth, Germany who showed us how biomaterials fold under certain conditions like change in pH and temperature. He took inspiration from nature and developed biomaterials which can achieve numerous shapes and sizes in-vivo. A technology such as this one …

  13.11.2020

• GTD or Getting Things Done. Introduction to a New World Without Worries About Forgotten Things

  …I will explain how to use this system and how to implement it in your life in the next blogs. Also, I draw your attention to the fact that GTD is not teaching you how to do certain things faster and better. It’s a decide-not-to-decide system which will allow you to fully concentrate on things you are currently doing. And you should remember: "No pain — no gain". This…

  09.10.2020

• My Turn to Walk the Dog: Moving Back Home During the Pandemic

  … to be already now? It is so early. On the other hand, at least after taking the dog out I am awake for my zoom call. A lot of students have been spending this time of uncertainty and isolation with their parents in their home city, be it in Russia or abroad. There they swap freedoms and habits they have developed while living away from home, for family life in a …

  25.09.2020

• Experience as a Volunteer at ITMO’s Art & Science Center

  …n worked and gave us an idea of the purpose of each detail of the exhibit. As for me, when I visit museums or different exhibitions, the creators of art usually seem to be unattainable. Most of the time you can get the idea put into the work, but it is usually based on your creativity and imagination. Here, as a volunteer, I could visualize the image of the creator a…

  17.09.2020

• Using Mobile Devices for Everyday Productivity

  …, you may need more general tools for managing your day. Most scheduling apps give you the freedom to plan your time each and every way. It might be through putting in a certain task for every hour of the day, which is something I’m trying right now with the time blocking method. Or it might be limited to simply writing down the times of the most important events …

  15.09.2020

• St. Petersburg Communal Apartments: Unique and Endangered

  …— a carved arch in the hallway of the grand but yet сrammed apartment (soon to be deserted), French-inspired stucco moldings on the cracked ceiling, a marble fireplace, dirty stained-glass windows and an old broken stove. And all of that was about to vanish in the near future? It was a piece of living history that we still had left. Such places are like time c…

  25.08.2020