3.A place that is special for me

The education building

I'd like to write about place where I was studying in 10 and 11 grades. Specialized Educational and Scientific center of Novosibirsk State University(SESC NSU or SESC as it usually called). It's unusual school, because you live in dormitory and your teachers are professors from NSU. Also there aren't just school lessons-there are lectures and seminars like in university.

Dormitory

It was based in 1963 by outstanding Soviet mathematician and physicist Mikhail Lavrentiev as a place to gather talented children from Siberia for further studies at NSU.




SESC NSU is situated in Academ-town, a part of Novosibirsk. Academ-town is like a big park, because there're a lot of trees and fresh air. And you can see squirrels form SESC's windows. In Academ-town are situated a lot of different researching institutes which are included in Siberian Part of Russian Researching Academy.Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the biggest. Experts from this scientific center are valued worldwide.

Academ-town air photo

It's a special place for me, because I've spent never-to-be-forgotten 2 years there,met a lot of interesting people,studied a lot of interesting things. I've found the best girl in the world ibidem.
So I'm happy that I've decided to move to SESC NSU from my previous school, which was very good too, but it's another story.

2. Reading

  One of my hobbies is reading books and I'd like to write about it.
  There are amounts of books you can choose from, so it's to hard to find books, which are interesting personally for you.
  I can't exactly define my favorite genres, thus I'll list my favorite writers and books. I like to read books,which have been written by this people: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His detective stories are excellent. Alexandre Dumas and his three musketeers were remembered for me,because it was the first non-children novel I've read.Lately I read it once again and it's continuation and I grasp that it's very interesting novel. The Oscar Wilde's story "The portrait of Dorian Grey" I think one of the best literature fictions I've read. Tolkien's trilogy and prediction"Hobbit" is a masterpiece and I was disappointed trying to find another such beautiful fantasy.Yes, there are some good fantasies like "Eragon"by Christopher Paoliny.I like to read stories full of meaning and interesting ideas by Ray Bradbury and exciting texts of Herbert Wells. Reading Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" could change your ideology.
  I enjoy reading modern literature too. From modern authors I' d like to write about these people: Dan Brown. His thrillers are amazing! It's really interesting to read his novels. I became interested in cryptography after reading "Digital fortress" and read more about Large Hadron Collider after "The Da Vinci code". Book "The lost symbol" inspired me to learn more about the Freemasons. And others his books are very interesting for me. Stig Larsson. His trilogy"Millennium" is very interesting detective novel! I read three books at one week, 'cause I couldn't do anything while I was reading this very exciting story! It's hard to separate fantasy from reality in James Rollins books. Some of them are really good,such as "Amazonia" or "Subterranian" or "Sandstorm", but I don't like his latest stories because they are too dark and pessimistic. If you like to read something serious, u should choose Paulo Coelho. It's very interesting to read his stories and you could think about sense of every story for a lot of time.
  Also I like reading popular economics books such as "Freeconomics". It's interesting for me.
  Now I'm reading the 5th book of series of novels "A song of Ice and Fire", written by George Martin. The genre of these novels is epic fantasy, but when u read such colorful description of Martin's world, u can imagine that isn't a fantasy and it's real world! Well-designed characters of heroes make a sense that u really know this people. Due to specific manner of storytelling u can look at the same events from the different points of view.
  It's very hard and,maybe, unreal to write about all writers and stories, which are interesting for me, but I've tried to write about the most impressive for me in this blog.
  In conclusion I'd like to quote George Martin:"If you read books,you live hundreds of lifes and if you don't read books, you live only one time"

Apple's phenomenon

     After some hours people all over the world will see new model of one of the most popular things, created in 20th century, iPhone 5.
     Different people have different opinions, some people are really fans of iProducts, and another people say that it's silly to be fond of brand. Everyone knows that iPhone is different from other mobiles.No other market event can cause such stir, as new Apple’s product presentation.
    It's interesting to see iPhone, which is totally developed without Steve Jobs. In my opinion, he was the most important factor of Apple's inconceivable success in 2006-2011. And it's his merit that word "apple" is associated with company more often than with the green fruit.

    Now Apple is the most expensive company in the world with the capitalization more than $ 600 billion. You might be an unreal optimist ten years ago to say that it would be world's leader in market's hi-tech segment in 2012. And today's presentation can answer to the question "Is it real company's praise or not?" Because a lot of traders think that stock prices are bigger than it should be.

    And it's really interesting to observe the change of Apple's stock price after the presentation. I don't think that iSpecialists invent something radically new, so I don’t expect the rise of stock prices. But, like anyone,I could be wrong. Let’s see it tonight. Or read about presentation and its consequences tomorrow.

1.Some words about me

Hi! I’m Alexandr Bashkeev. Now I’m a student of Higher School of Economics and of New Economics School at the same time.

I was born in a small town in Tomsk’s region on November, 7^th, but two years lately my family moved to Novosibirsk. 

Novisibirsk is always named as “Siberian capital”. It’s the biggest city in Russia after Moscow and St.Petersburg with a population of about 1’500’000.

NOVOSIBIRSK

From 1 till 9 form I was studying in lyceum №130, 10 and 11 forms I was studying at the Specialized Educational Scientific Center of Novosibirsk State University.

But two weeks ago I moved to Moscow in order to study at one of the most interesting economics bachelor program in Russia:HSE/NES BA program.
My favorite subjects in school were maths and physics. I’ve taken part in different olympiads. In 2010 I took part in Russian Physics Olympiad, then in November of that year decided to learn economics. Some months later I understood that economics is more interesting for me than physics and I decided to become an economist. And in April 2011 I won the most important economics olympiad in Russia – Russian Economics Olimpiad(3rd place). Year later (in this year) I became a winner in this Olympiad with the 4th result. And I faced a difficult choice: what faculty I should choose. After three months I apply for this program and I really happy that I choose it.
When I’ve got some free time I enjoy playing and watching football (not American football, but soccer), watching movies, reading, spending time with friends, programming and listening to music.
My expectations about English course: I hope that I will improve my English level, especially speaking and I will do everything that is needed to archive this goal.