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 …

“If I have seen further than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants” Isaac Newton

After the research topic for an article (see “On Choosing a Topic for a Research Paper”) or for a term paper, thesis, or dissertation has been defined, you need to work …

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 …

Recently I ran into a good acquaintance on public transit. He told me that five years of studying at our university seemed like not enough to him, and despite the exposé “Why Go to Graduate School?” by my friend Mikha, he decided anyway to enroll as a full-time postgraduate student …