Pereproshuyu za traslit, ale take zhittya :)
Inkoly, os' napriklad zaraz, ya duzhe hochu govoryty uzbeks'koyu abo ukrayinskoyu. A pislya dvoh rokiv v Kyive, tse zazvychay Ukrains'ka.
I do bisa, sho moyi rechennya nepryrodni, a gramatika vzagali vbyvstvo.
Prosto hochu pochuty tsu dyvnu ta spivuchu movu. Tse navit ne mova - zagadkova pisnya. Pochuty iyiy zvuk... Vidpovysty...
Eh, yak by ya mogla govoryty i pysaty ukraynskoyu vil'no...
Thursday, November 29, 2007
About Russia
Russia is apparently quite a big topic here. It is often mentioned on lectures 8I think even more often than in Ukraine).
Basically, the 2 main pretexts are:
Basically, the 2 main pretexts are:
- How much money Finnish companies lost in Russia just after the collapse of the USSR and economic recessions in the 90s and how it led to considerable changes in the structure of Finnish business.
- How Russian markets are developing now and how Finnish companies are trying to benefit from that.
The other day one of the AIESECers attended some business conference about the perpectives of development of Russian business. Among other interesting things was the fact that today, the biggest country in terms of investing into Russian economy is Canary Islands. Which basically means that Russian people are returning money to their home country recognising its improvments in economic development.
It reminded me of many jokes about "new Russians" :)
Monday, November 26, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Freerice
Sometimes it's better to stay friends. No business, only personal :)
Really. Some people are more important as friends.
Thank you for helping me realize this :)
And, btw, today I passed 1200 grains of rice (www.freerice.com).
Join!
Really. Some people are more important as friends.
Thank you for helping me realize this :)
And, btw, today I passed 1200 grains of rice (www.freerice.com).
Join!
Friday, November 23, 2007
Some AIESEC Update
Well, I am again becoming active in AIESEC. Donno how it will go. For sure different from Ukraine. But, anyway, yesterday I was selected to become the OCP of SUCCESS 2008 (similar to Ukrainian SpringCo). Being an OCP used to be my dream about a year ago. Hm, let's see ;)
And another thing. AIESEC in Finland was one of the founders of AIESEC. Actually, my school's LC will be 60 years this spring. And yesterday I had a meeting with the LCP of TKK (one of Helsinki LCs). Can you imagine: her grand-dad went on AIESEC internship!!! That one was not a great learning XP (he mostly did some secreterial work even though he was a student of economics), but still he remembers it. And he met his wife there (or went there after her, don't remember). Anyway, in the end the girl's father was born in France, where the internship took place.
C'est le vie :)
And another thing. AIESEC in Finland was one of the founders of AIESEC. Actually, my school's LC will be 60 years this spring. And yesterday I had a meeting with the LCP of TKK (one of Helsinki LCs). Can you imagine: her grand-dad went on AIESEC internship!!! That one was not a great learning XP (he mostly did some secreterial work even though he was a student of economics), but still he remembers it. And he met his wife there (or went there after her, don't remember). Anyway, in the end the girl's father was born in France, where the internship took place.
C'est le vie :)
Social projects I admire
Thanks to Ira Voronova I've learned about the Free Rice (www.freerice.com). This porjects is aiming to help feed people in poor countris and at the same time learn English for free.
This is the kind of projects I cannot help admiring. So simple and so genious.
Well, maybe I'm over-idealistic :)
Anyway, I have already helped to collect 1030 grains of rice today!
Join!
This is the kind of projects I cannot help admiring. So simple and so genious.
Well, maybe I'm over-idealistic :)
Anyway, I have already helped to collect 1030 grains of rice today!
Join!
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Printing Intelligence
Probably, you've never heard this concept. Actually, almost noone has ever heard. This is what at least our lecturer today claimed.
And this is what also proves the saying, "do not trust market reports completely".
The birth of the idea may be recognised as the result of ITC (Information technology and Communications) Development. At the late 80s paper machine producers suddenly found themselves in a deep crisis. Not many customers wanted to buy new paper machines.
At that time paper producers did not pay that much attention. But no more than in decade they experienced the same. We do not want to buy paper. Not anymore. why should anyone of us care about printing, ink, etc, when there are all those handy laptops, PCs almost everywhere in our life?
Is it the end? Or maybe the beginning?
There is no guarantee this concept will ever live. But it may also become the new reality.
Because for now almost the only most popular thing we do with paper is printing. (ok, there still exists origami and some prefer handwriting, but...) And then there is the packaging paper with which we usually wrap. Not too much. Especially, if we think that printing is merely the process of putting small ink dots on a piece of paper. And for the last several decades the single best invention in this spehere was putting coloured jots on the same piece of paper!
But what if we try to think out of the box?! What other uses of printing may be? What else can we do besides printing dots?
Impressed is not the world that can describe my today's öecture. Much more. You see the history in making. Even before it has been really made.
RFID printed on paper: huge environmental savings, extremely low costs; new modes of putting holohrams: again huge savings and you can even save ink. Paper packages able to detect the freshness of food inside. Paper prushes detecting whether the furniture (in restaurant or hospital, for instance) satisfies sanitary standards. Printed lamps, printed detecting devices, bio-degradable batteries. Paper able to transmit info to your mobile phones. Medical tests.
And that is just to mention few...
Still impressed :)
And thank you VTT!
And this is what also proves the saying, "do not trust market reports completely".
The birth of the idea may be recognised as the result of ITC (Information technology and Communications) Development. At the late 80s paper machine producers suddenly found themselves in a deep crisis. Not many customers wanted to buy new paper machines.
At that time paper producers did not pay that much attention. But no more than in decade they experienced the same. We do not want to buy paper. Not anymore. why should anyone of us care about printing, ink, etc, when there are all those handy laptops, PCs almost everywhere in our life?
Is it the end? Or maybe the beginning?
There is no guarantee this concept will ever live. But it may also become the new reality.
Because for now almost the only most popular thing we do with paper is printing. (ok, there still exists origami and some prefer handwriting, but...) And then there is the packaging paper with which we usually wrap. Not too much. Especially, if we think that printing is merely the process of putting small ink dots on a piece of paper. And for the last several decades the single best invention in this spehere was putting coloured jots on the same piece of paper!
But what if we try to think out of the box?! What other uses of printing may be? What else can we do besides printing dots?
Impressed is not the world that can describe my today's öecture. Much more. You see the history in making. Even before it has been really made.
RFID printed on paper: huge environmental savings, extremely low costs; new modes of putting holohrams: again huge savings and you can even save ink. Paper packages able to detect the freshness of food inside. Paper prushes detecting whether the furniture (in restaurant or hospital, for instance) satisfies sanitary standards. Printed lamps, printed detecting devices, bio-degradable batteries. Paper able to transmit info to your mobile phones. Medical tests.
And that is just to mention few...
Still impressed :)
And thank you VTT!
My studies here
Some of you have been wondering how I like studies here and stuff like that.
Well, I must admit I really enjoy it here.
First, it is the change in my own approach which makes the difference. After 2 intensive AIESEC-non-university years I really want to study. And I do feel the value of my studies. And practical implications (actually, many of them come from the AIESEC and other working XP)
Second, the ambiance here is more encouraging. Starting from the basic technical and other life conditions (at least one beamer per every room, even in the smallest ones, videos, ppts, Internet connection everywhere, and other things that really add value to your studies), continuing with the teaching approach (will tell more later below) and ending with the general respect to the studying process here. For example, your Bachelor's and Master's degree theses are something which do matter. Companies often offer themes. You may base them Companies often order research for them, where students at certain level can participate. As well as the government.
About the teaching process. The good thing is that it is always very practical. (Sometimes even too much, I think, but in general it's good). You have a textbook which you are supposed to study on your own before the exam. And then there are lectures, many of which are actually guest lectures, which focus on some practical aspect or feature. Sometimes there is theory, but mainly you are supposed to master that yourself.
One traditional drawback of many of the teachers here is that they are over too calm. Maybe, I'm just not used, but sometimes, after 1,5 hours of very mild, calm, confident lecture you just lose the point. And the way many of them use ppts. Sometimes there is really much too much text on them.
And I enjoy this focus on innovation everywhere. Actually, one of the interesting arguments one of our recent guest lecturer has made was that with the increasing introduction of computers in our life and management, human beings virtually not only keep control, but they also increase the number of opportunities to do interesting creative work while leaving the boring ones to computers. :)
Well, I must admit I really enjoy it here.
First, it is the change in my own approach which makes the difference. After 2 intensive AIESEC-non-university years I really want to study. And I do feel the value of my studies. And practical implications (actually, many of them come from the AIESEC and other working XP)
Second, the ambiance here is more encouraging. Starting from the basic technical and other life conditions (at least one beamer per every room, even in the smallest ones, videos, ppts, Internet connection everywhere, and other things that really add value to your studies), continuing with the teaching approach (will tell more later below) and ending with the general respect to the studying process here. For example, your Bachelor's and Master's degree theses are something which do matter. Companies often offer themes. You may base them Companies often order research for them, where students at certain level can participate. As well as the government.
About the teaching process. The good thing is that it is always very practical. (Sometimes even too much, I think, but in general it's good). You have a textbook which you are supposed to study on your own before the exam. And then there are lectures, many of which are actually guest lectures, which focus on some practical aspect or feature. Sometimes there is theory, but mainly you are supposed to master that yourself.
One traditional drawback of many of the teachers here is that they are over too calm. Maybe, I'm just not used, but sometimes, after 1,5 hours of very mild, calm, confident lecture you just lose the point. And the way many of them use ppts. Sometimes there is really much too much text on them.
And I enjoy this focus on innovation everywhere. Actually, one of the interesting arguments one of our recent guest lecturer has made was that with the increasing introduction of computers in our life and management, human beings virtually not only keep control, but they also increase the number of opportunities to do interesting creative work while leaving the boring ones to computers. :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)