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Despite the heavy academic workload, active students manage to lead a busy life. Clubs, hackathons, competitions, volunteering - all this is available to everyone from the first year of study. It is very important for me that our institute provides comprehensive support for student initiatives, providing facilities and equipment, organising trips to international forums and events. The most valuable experience, in my opinion, a student gets in the course of teamwork on his/her own project, which fits perfectly with the project practice of junior courses and research work of senior courses.

In fact, I learnt about MEPhI almost at the very end of the admission campaign and initially it was not my priority for admission, but I am very grateful that life has led me to this very road (Which, by the way, will lead you to MEPhI ;)). The thing that struck me the most was the student community I found myself in. Here I found so many wonderful acquaintances, close friends and like-minded people. We have student cultural and creative associations, where everyone can find a hobby for themselves. Studying is not easy, sometimes very hard, but mutual support and cohesion help to cope with all anxieties. Now I can confidently say that MEPhI and IICS have become for me not just an educational institution and faculty, now it is my home! ❤️❤️

ICIS training helped me to understand simple and not so simple truths of life. The main one is not to have illusions about the impossibility of a task. Here I acquired the most important skill - the ability to make myself do something. Not to be afraid, not to put it off until tomorrow, to take it and do it. To fight.  This, by the way, was the point of the “fundamental disciplines” in the first two courses.

The 12th department gave me the opportunity to immerse myself in programming. I learned the methodology of developing large projects.
I managed to take part in the cultural life of MEPhI, hackathons, and at the same time managed to keep a relatively healthy sleep.

Successes in Olympiads and high scores on the USE opened the way for me to almost any direction in any of the best universities in Russia. Based on a comparative analysis of many criteria - student workload, educational programs, opportunities for further employment, I chose IICS. 
And yes! Studying at MEPhI turned out to be really cool: cool, enthusiastic teachers, a lot of useful and modern courses, a million opportunities for students.

IICS is about a big close-knit community of purposeful, versatile and talented guys who really want to achieve something. It is already very cool to be in such an environment, where synergy of mutual support and development reigns. 
And also university is not about learning, but about learnability. Studying in the first two courses taught me to take a structured approach to learning the material. Yes, it was hard at times, but now I have the confidence that I can understand anything. 

Come to IICS if you want to learn to work independently and conscientiously, get into a strong, promoting community and a balance of theoretical and practical disciplines.