Category Archives: Student life

UT Student Blogger Contest: 5 Best Stories

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

These are the 5 best stories submitted to the UT Student Blogger Contest 2012 by international students at the University of Tartu in Estonia. Continue reading →

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Mika Keränen: I Need Colder Seasons To Think and Work

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

This is a podcast interview with Mika Keränen, a writer, alumnus and lecturer of Finnish at the University of Tartu. Mika: “If your happiness is somewhere between the bushes of Botanical Garden, or near the riverbanks where the self-made thinkers sit, then you are in the right place – in Tartu.” Continue reading →

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Student Interview: Voronezh Is Like Tartu, but 10 Times Bigger

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

This is an interview with Ekaterina Bogdanova from Voronezh State University in Russia. Ekaterina is on her exchange semester in Tartu in autumn 2012. Continue reading →

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Four Months of Erasmus in Winter

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Catherina Langhoff

Catherina from Germany writes about her four months of Erasmus experience in Estonia and Tartu, including the survival in winter. Continue reading →

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Student Interview: A Book Brought Me to Estonia

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

This is a twitterview with Maeva from France who arrived to Tartu for her Erasmus year. Maeva’s journey to Estonia started two years ago when she read the Purge (in Finnish: Puhdistus), an award-winning novel by a Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen. Continue reading →

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Meet Shazia, a Bright Master in IT from Pakistan

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Inga Külmoja

This is a podcast interview with Shazia Javed, a fresh Master’s graduate in Software Engineering at the University of Tartu from Pakistan. Continue reading →

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Somewhere in the North: Why Nobody Came to Visit Me

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Karin Pointner

Karin Pointner, who spent her Erasmus semester 2006/2007 in Tartu, won the first prize in the Erasmus-essay competition, organised by the Austrian agency for international mobility and cooperation in educaton, science and research in autumn 2011. Karin’s essay came best among 200 submissions and was read to 300 people on May 3 during the “25 Years of Erasmus” celebrations in Vienna. Continue reading →

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