Now SUSU international students have more opportunities to tell about themselves, they have started a channel on YouTube. In their videos foreign students are ready to share their experience of living in Russia and studying in a Russian university thereby helping students from other educational institutions and even applicants to overcome possible problems.
The SUSU Association of International Students has launched a YouTube channel. University students will talk about their lives and activities on the online platform, specially for other students and applicants. This is especially relevant at a time when restrictive measures continue to be implemented in many countries and borders are closed. Applicants receive information precisely in the remote mode, and the AIS channel will become another source of it.
“Every year the number of international students at SUSU is growing. When arriving, a foreigner becomes not just a student, but s/he also gains an important life experience: s/he lives a student life from admission to graduation. For such a student, and subsequently a graduate, it is important that his/her compatriots, who want to have a Russian education, experience less difficulty in adaptation and study, will be able to learn about the possibilities and advantages of studying in Russia. In this regard, the idea to create a YouTube channel where representatives from different countries will talk about their “Russian” experience has come up,” said Valeria Chachina, the International Student Support Department specialist.
The “AIS South Ural” channel will be filled with interviews of international students who will share their impressions of studying at SUSU. The videos will tell about the events which international students take part in, projects of the Association and universities of the city of Chelyabinsk, as well as the specifics of studying and living of international students in Russia.
“It should be noted that each person is interesting and unique, s/he carries his/her own culture and has a talents. By showing and telling about him-/herself, about studying in Russia, s/he can attract the interest of others who still are trying to decide whether to go study at a Russian university,” added Valeria Chachina.
All SUSU international students can participate in the development of the channel; all they need is to tell the representatives of AIS or the International Student Support about this wish.
The Association of International Students also has a group in VKontakte and an Instagram account, where news on the AIS activities appears regularly.