University
My studies with tutors did not go in vain. After I passed the entrance exams, I was accepted as a student to Donetsk National Technical University, the first year budget group PS-05b. University life began with a challenge — to find an almost mythical room # 3.33b was rather a hard task on the first day of my study. Another difficult task was to find the right place among a great number of buildings and to understand who in this constantly changing crowd are actually my group-mates. Since the first year I became the monitor of my group – it was my free will – and quickly began to identify my group-mates not only by face but by name as well.
I can’t say that study was easy for me, especially during the first and the second years. But I never regretted choosing my profession, and was slowly but surely reaching the fifth year, getting good and excellent marks into my record book.
Since studying was not my only interest, I decided to fulfill my old dream and joined the horse-riding club "Tatersal".
When I was a third year student, a remarkable event happened, which changed my life — that was my participating in "European Days in Ukraine" as a volunteer in May. At that period I took great interest in Europe as a whole, and in Poland in particular. Since the beginning of my fourth year, I attended Polish technical faculty of our University. Pani Zosya, our teacher from Poland, spoke Russian poorly, so I had to learn Polish in extreme conditions. Since the language has much in common with Ukrainian, I studied it successfully, and I passed the contest for a week trip to Lodz in December. After the trip I became friends with the Polish dean’s office, thanks to its inhabitants — Makeyev Alexander Yurievich and Morgun Katherine. After the fourth year, when I passed my exams and got to know I was accepted as a student for master’s degree, I went for a three-week training to Poland, after which I began not only to understand, but to speak Polish well.
My study for a master’s degree appeared to be not so scary I thought it to be when I was a first year student. The choice of my master’s work’s course was not casual — I was interested in image processing for a long time, and my supervisor – Kostyukova Natalia Stefanovna — helped me define the topic. For now I combine my University study with supervising the first year of Polish technical faculty.