Category Archives: Student life

Family Tradition Brings Ana from Georgia To Study Medicine in Tartu

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Inga Külmoja

Read the fascinating story of a Georgian family and their love for Estonia. Ana (17) started her medical studies at the University of Tartu in her father’s steps, but the story begins even earlier with Ana’s grandmother. Continue reading →

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Tartu: Student-Friendly and Open-Minded. There Is History Here.

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Inga Külmoja

See what new international students think about their first weeks in Estonia, Tartu, and the university. Continue reading →

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The United Nations of Tartu: Compact Town with an Infinite Horizon

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Frederik Declercq

Read what Frederik Declercq from Belgium, an exchange student at the University of Tartu in 2008, thinks about his Tartu study experience. Continue reading →

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Jevgēnijs from Latvia Is Used to Crossing Borders

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Kaija Pook

Listen to the podcast interview with Jevgēnijs, a fresh graduate of the master’s programme in the Baltic Sea Region studies. Originally from Latvia, Jevgēnijs has studied in Estonia, Poland, and the USA during his MA. Continue reading →

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Student Career Podcast: Myroslava at Fortumo

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Inga Külmoja

In this podcast interview, Myroslava Stavnycha, a first-year master’s student of software engineering at the University of Tartu, talks about her fresh job at the leading mobile payments provider Fortumo. Continue reading →

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Tartu 1992-1993: The Wild, Wild West

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Eva Ensmann

Eva from the USA recalls her studies in Tartu one year after Estonia regained its independence in 1991: Foreign students behind a security door, no heat in winter, limited fruits and vegetables, taxi vodka. Continue reading →

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Pigheadedness Brought Me to Post-Soviet Estonia

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Tricia Cornell

Tricia Cornell arrived in Tartu in 1995, less than four years after the Soviet Union collapsed. Foreign students lived on a locked floor of the old dorm; rooms were severely cold in the winter. “God, I loved that place.” Continue reading →

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