Our Group and Our Studies

There are twenty-five students in our group. Most of us entered the University just after leaving school. But there are some students who worked at shipbuilding yards. Various shipyards of our country sent their workers to our University after several years of work. After graduation from the University they will return to their shipyards as engineers. Some of us will go into research and teaching.

Many of us live in the hostel. Our hostel is not far from the University. It takes us about ten minutes to get to the University on foot (by bus, by tram, by the metro). There is a library and a reading room in our hostel.

At the University we have lectures, seminars, classes and laboratory works. In the first year we have higher mathematics, physics, chemistry, the history of Russia, science of materials and some other subjects. In the first two years we have foreign languages, either English or German. Some of the students learn French.

Most of my groupmates get basic grants and three of us get increased grants. All of us take part in social activities. We all go in for sports. I go in for rowing.

The academic year is divided into two terms: the autumn term and the spring term. At the end of each term students take examinations and if they work hard enough, they pass them successfully.

When we graduate from the University, we’ll be naval architects, marine engineers, economists. I would like to go into industry and work at one of the shipbuilding yards (at a research institute, a design bureau).