Category Archives: Student life

Two Students Locked Up on Museum Night

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

On a Museum Night, two 19th-century students populated the attic of the University of Tartu’s Main Building, the former students’ lock-up. Continue reading →

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Concert: Ka Moosiga & Too Hot For Teacher

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

Last Friday, teachers and students were rocking the audience at the Athena Centre in Tartu. A hardrock band THFT (Too Hot For Teacher) got the show going while Ka Moosiga, comprised of our uni’s international students, a postdoc researcher and … Continue reading →

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Student Video: I Just Can’t Get Enough!

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Rūta Petersonaitė

This is a diary video by Rūta Petersonaitė, a fourth year student of publishing at Vilnius University, about her 2010/2011 semester in Tartu, Estonia. Continue reading →

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Photos: How Students Invoke The Christmas Spirit

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Rūta Petersonaitė

Rūta Petersonaitė, a fourth year student of publishing at Vilnius University, took out her camera and captured the Christmas spirit among the students in Tartu. Nine awesome photos! Continue reading →

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Looking Good Is Feeling Good: International Students Present Their Case

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Rūta Petersonaitė

This is the second installment in the 4-part series on student life by Rūta Petersonaitė, a fourth year student of publishing at Vilnius University, who is currently spending this autumn semester in Tartu. Rūta’s first story explored why students chose … Continue reading →

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Tartu Students on a Moon Mission

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Villu Päärt

About 200 students from 19 universities across Europe are working hard to get a satellite into lunar orbit in 2014. After launch the University of Tartu students will be in charge of steering the satellite into lunar orbit and ensuring that it stays there. Continue reading →

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Why Tartu? Why not!

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Rūta Petersonaitė

This semester the University of Tartu is hosting a record number of international students – 680. This fact begs the question as to what reasons brought them here, and with two months already behind them, it would also be interesting to know whether their expectations met with delightful or awkward surprises, what they think Estonians are like and what are the “must-dos” of Tartu in their point of view? Continue reading →

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