STUDENT LIFE

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 429.

2.27 What do you know about student life in Russia – cultural, sport, scientific? What do you know about student life at your university? Read the text and say which event or activity do you take part in?

At SMTU studying is not confined to the classroom. There is a wide range of social, recreational and sports activities. There are also a lot of annual traditional and cultural events to look forward to.

Students' social life is planned to encourage their creativity and abilities. A wide range of students' activities in the SMTU includes a variety of festivals such as “KVN” clubs, intellectual games (“What? Where? When?”, Brain Ring), various competitions and parties. The “Korabel” club offers to try your hand at singing in “Gaudeamus” choir, a patriotic club, dancing, drumming, photo-, theatre-, DJ-, showmen studios and others. Balls, holidays, contests and marine festivals are held all year long.

University students' scientific life is marked by participating in the All-Russia Science Festival, the International Cultural-educational technical higher school course of the Shanhai Cooperation Union countries and the Student Scientific Forum “Lomonosov's Land”.

There are sport and fitness clubs at the University. They hold chess, rowing, sailing, billiards, football, basketball, volleyball sport competitions and tournaments. Every spring nearly all the students take part in a sport competition “Lotsmanskaya Mile”.