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• Experiment: Applying For 200 Jobs in One Day

  The job market is rough. According to the Russian job posting service HeadHunter, it usually takes at least 2-3 months to land a job. In an attempt to speed up the process, I decided to test a modern solution to the problem – a job-hunting bot that allows you to apply for hundreds of listings in seconds.

  12.11.2024

• The Experiment: Facing My Fears

  I asked my colleagues to write a list of potentially scary things I could do – and then tried doing them all in just one day. Did conquering these fears make me fearless? Read on to find out.

  05.03.2024

• The Experiment: Digital Decluttering

  To tell you the truth, I never considered digital clutter that much of a problem – at least not before I actually tried getting rid of it. It was only after several failed attempts and lots of frustration that I began taking it seriously – seriously enough to make digital decluttering a week-long project. And this is what I’d like to share with you.

  15.12.2023

• The Experiment: Testing Internet’s Top Advice for Beating the Fall Blues

  In this story, I’m saying no to any weather- or season-related sadness with a mixture of tips found in a quick googling session. Do they really work? Find out with me as I brave cold showers and snuggle in wool sweaters. 

  24.10.2023

• The Experiment: Bucket List Summer

  We don’t know about you, but we’ve come across dozens of “summer bucket lists” online – they were almost begging us to try them out. So that’s what we did: took some items off random lists online, added our personal touch, and set off on adventures – big or small. Below, you will find our accounts of what happened next, which we hope will inspire you to run an experiment of your own this August.

  04.08.2023

• The Experiment: Fix Your Sleep Schedule and Stay Sane

  Have you ever tried to get your sleep routine back on track? For me, this has been a trial-and-error process for years. Lately, I think I finally hit some solid ground. Now, I’ve documented my weeks-long journey, ranking popular get-better-sleep tips so you don’t have to make my mistakes. Here’s my story.

  17.02.2023

• Building Work-Life Balance From Scratch as a Translator Applying for a PhD

  Having repeatedly found myself unable to fall asleep because of the list of things to do at work and at home, as well as the burning regret over things I am failing at, I decided to set off on a journey towards a more balanced life. Can I learn to prevent burnout and frustration and establish boundaries between work, PhD aspirations, and a relatively active personal life? Let's see what my week-long experiment taught me.

  15.10.2021

• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  Whenever life tries to get the better of me, I always find myself either with a pen and a random notebook, the first I could lay my hands on, or, lately, in front of a white blank Word page. So, when November presented me with plenty of homework, a Master’s thesis experiment, and a dozen other projects, I knew what was coming – and tried to make good use of it.

  20.11.2020

• Friday Experiment: Decluttering

  Every time I feel stuck with a work project, I tend to reorganize something. Can’t write a report? Sort out the closet. Sometimes it just feeds my inner procrastinator and sometimes yields cool discoveries – and headspace.

  14.08.2020

• Top Five: Funky Ways to Fight a Cold – Reviewed!

  You know that horrible, sniffly, snotty and yucky feeling when you’re on the verge of catching a cold but still not quite there yet? When you feel that the virus has already weaseled its way in but is waiting for the worst possible moment to attack you in full? ‘Course you do, because that’s everyone’s default state in the thick of autumn. Instead of prostrating on the sofa downing flu remedies and feeling sorry for ourselves, we’ve scoured the interwebs for some of the most idio… syncratic ways of curing a cold, and then tested them to see who cracks first. Enjoy!

  18.10.2019