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• Introducing Cricket at ITMO: A Journey of Passion, Friendship, and Hope

• Discovering Barcelona: Part 3

  …et, for example, to see an opera. The Sant Pau Hospital is a hospital for the poor that looks like a fairy tale palace. It was designed by a contemporary of the famous Antonio Gaudi, Lewis Domenech-i-Montaner. Mount Tibidabo and the Temple of the Sacred Heart are one of the highest points in Barcelona. The most daring can climb the dome of the temple and …

  25.10.2023

• A Peek Into St. Petersburg’s Metro System

  …rain stations accessible via metro. Most of the city’s first metro stations exuded a prototypical Stalinistic austerity, emphasized through imposing proportions and architectonic symmetry, but that approach would soon fade in favor of a more diverse design palette, cascading in the following decades into an ensemble of stylistic splendor. Stations bear the …

  29.08.2022

• New Apple M1 Chip: Is RISC Worth It?

  …rticle by Paul DeMone about why this difference still matters. In a nutshell, RISC came with its own killer-feature: the pipeline. CISC folks also wanted this feature due to astonishing performance improvements but the variable-length opcodes poorly combined with such an idea. So engineers came up with the solution to split one huge instruction into several little on…

  30.04.2021

• Dancing at ITMO

• Yali Sun on Life at the Optical Laboratory

  …ave their own specific schedule and every day of the week someone is working at the Optical Lab because experimental scientists at the International Research Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials need to work with students and also in the lab. This laboratory is located at ITMO’s building on Lomonosova 9. Five years ago, Yali came to ITMO University for a one…

  01.12.2020

• Moscow vs. St. Petersburg: Which Russian Capital is Better?

  … with flights which can transfer you to almost any place in the world. But St. Petersburg is located closer to the border, and it will take you only several hours to ride to Estonia or Finland. If you want to travel to more distant places, it would be easier and cheaper to take a flight from one of these countries. This is why for travelers, St. Petersburg is a much …

  03.03.2020

• A Belgian Student in Russia

  … you here! Being in Russia is really the perfect opportunity to discover totally unusual and beautiful places. Indeed, I’ve already had the chance to visit splendid museums, astonishing theaters, chic restaurants… (which is something I can’t afford in Belgium). Courteousness I have also noticed that, when it comes to courtesy, our two countries are quite differ…

  20.02.2020

• My Impressions After 5 Months in St. Petersburg

  …ble to ignore its amazing architecture, the so different clothes worn by the crowd, beautiful nature in parks and numerous and gorgeous bridges spread across the city. I was astonished and could not believe my eyes. I have never lived in a place where the weather changes so dramatically throughout the year. In São Paulo, the city where I came from, there are sligh…

  27.01.2020

• Yagodnoe Trip: A Chance to Strengthen Ties Between Russian and Exchange Students

  …re and it was happening! I was so glad to get to know that place, with that specific gentle and warm people that I had the joy to be accompanied by. At the end, I was astonished with the fact that we could do so many different things in only one day. As far as I can tell, the initial objectives of the trip were completely achieved. I say that because I felt cl…

  20.11.2019