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Category Archives: Studies
How uncanny sounds make ghost tours spookier
Ghost tours exist within the nebulous categorisation of dark tourism, which is characterised as visiting sites of death and catastrophe as a leisure pursuit. As grim as this might sound, ghost tours are consistent across the international stage in making … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Research, Studies
Tagged folkloristics, ghost tours, haunting, master's project, Master''s, master's thesis, sounds, spooky
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Every student’s nightmare – group work. How to make the most of it?
“I simply hate it. Every time I see it coming up, I literally panic!” You might think that such reactions relate to a painful medical procedure, but, in fact, students have expressed these thoughts regarding something much more common: group … Continue reading
How robots can guide us safely through the pandemic
The World Health Organization has recommended that to cut the chain of Covid-19 transmission, people should keep social distance and avoid touching surfaces in public places. The question is: how we can manage our lives in a way that reduces … Continue reading
Posted in Natural and exact sciences, Research, Studies
Tagged COVID-19, healthcare, robotics, robots
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Would you clone your dog?
In 2017, my cohorts and I became the first students for the newly developed Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies master’s programme. After a few false starts, I finally found my project topic when I heard that American celebrity Barbara Streisand … Continue reading
Posted in Humanities, Research, Studies
Tagged cloning, dog, folkloristics, MOOC, pet, Udemy
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Switching from average success in Moscow to opportunities in Tartu
I have lived all my life in Moscow, the huge, metropolitan city of 15 million. I got my bachelor’s degree in geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2008 and my master’s degree in geography at the same place in 2010. … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged Austria, Erasmus, geoinformatics, GIS, internship, Moscow
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Anything but usual: My Erasmus stay in Tartu
It all started at the very first exam of my master’s studies. After the end of the exam, I asked my professor for a recommendation of a good place to go to an Erasmus+ study stay – somewhere I could … Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Czech Republic, Erasmus, Erasmus experience, Tartu
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Meet Houman, our robotics wizard from Iran
This is a podcast interview with Houman Masnavi, a fresh Master’s graduate in Robotics and Computer Engineering at the University of Tartu from Iran. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Student life, Studies, Tartu
Tagged computer engineering, Estonia, Iran, robotics, Tartu
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