Articles in category 23

Shitty Kharkiv

There’s this public page called “Shitty Kharkiv.” The main content of the page is how everything in our city is bad: “And you just keep thinking Shitty isn’t really that shitty.”

This brain cancer started infecting others too. A public page called “SHITTY KhNURE” appeared. I never stop …

Stay a dumb moron

The author of the best math textbook got shortchanged at the market. Don’t learn math. Stay a dumb moron.

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Zombifying Schoolkids

Zombifying schoolkids (applicants) is university slang for the process of persuading schoolkids to apply to one faculty or another at a university. The process is called zombification because, as a result, the schoolkid is supposed to really, really want to apply, without any rational argumentation whatsoever.

— Son, why do you …

Plagiarism at the University

Time goes by, but the fashion for trashing teachers, universities, and education officials (in our case always just one — the minister) never passes. Like, the first are old farts who read lectures off a sheet of paper from 40 years ago and don’t know shit; the second are organizations …

Kharkiv Metro Questionnaire

Yesterday I read in the news:

Voting in the metro is taking place for the first time, Viktoria Belan, press secretary of the municipal enterprise Kharkiv Metro, told MediaPort. The purpose of the event is to find out whether Kharkiv residents are satisfied with how the subway is run.

The …

Everyone to the stadium!

Today at 9:00 PM there will be a Metalist — Dynamo match. It’s probably the most high-stakes match of the season. More than 38 thousand tickets have already been sold. A full stadium is just a little bit away. Five of us are going tonight — I’ll bring the …

On Choosing a Research Topic

Let’s continue our discussion, which we started back last year. As a reminder, the topic of the conversation is “How a young person can survive at a university.” Today we’ll talk about choosing a topic for research work.

Let’s make clear right away that we’ll be …