INSIDER 03.11.2017 | VOL. 20 | ISSUE 04
STUDENT MAGAZINE OF XAMK
HAMINA AR HACKATHON IN MIKKELI
THIS WEEK INNOVATE OR DIE EXCHANGE VIEW FROM MALTA YOUTUBE AS A CAREER (part 1) FIFA 2018 PROFILE: MIIA KARTUNNEN THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER TIP OF THE WEEK
EDITORIAL STAFF
Anastasiia Abgarian Mikkeli Current Affairs
Daria Chekalskaia Mikkeli Current Affairs
Stela Demaj Kouvola Current Affairs
Hafsa Farah Kouvola Current Affairs
Lingli Jing Profile
Suvi Karell Overseas Reporter
Trang Le Recipes
Lotta Lehtinen Movie Review
Wonder Maina Kouvola Current Affairs
Long Nguyen Layout Editor
Setareh Nourzad Abkenar Kouvola Current Affairs
Hugh Clack Editor in Chief
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EDITORIAL There it is, th right e first on th snow e firs of autum t day o the seaso n bre n, ak. f our belov ed
It is predictable, but at the same time, it isn’t. Coming from a country where snow is such a bizarre phenomenon, you can imagine how thrilled I was the first time I looked out of the window and saw everything was pearly white. The second time around, I just let out a long sigh. Nonetheless, it is a sign that puzzles us all “Is this what autumn in Finland like?”. And the answer is yes, it is one of many things that make this chilly European country so special. I hope you all have had a joyful autumn break, though most of us dreaded going back to school, but perhaps this week’s issue will keep all those essays and tests off your mind a bit. We are bringing you the innovation competition for students to generate new ideas when facing real business challenge – Innovate or Die, the usual exchange view from Suvi, the Hamina AR Hackathon and many more. Have a sneak peek at our annual International Week schedule and prepare yourself for a fun time! We hope you enjoy this issue and many more ahead. Stay tuned!
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YOUTUBE AS A CAREER PART 1
"The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire" an autobiography by YouTubers Dan Howell and Phil Lester.
Like all the millennials in the world, I spend most of my time on the internet. Fairly speaking, it is a magical place. You can find out what’s happening in a country 8000 km away just by a click of a mouse. One website that I have visited frequently for the past 5 years is YouTube, which I guess everyone is familiar with. As a daily watcher, I noticed a trend that has rose in recent years: more and more people choose making YouTube videos as a career. There is a number of reasons behind this notion. While others are flipping burgers and making minimum wage, a YouTuber can earn as much as $1000 on a video with ~ 100,000 views. This reason alone piques lots of people’s interests. But if one’s main reason for making videos is money, their whole career plan will not last long. It takes genuine efforts and knowledges in order to have YouTube as a job. Many do not consider YouTube a real job, but surprise surprise, it is. However, there are certain YouTube channels who did not plan to make a living off of YouTube when they first started posting videos, mostly in 2006 – 2010. This is my favorite era on this website,
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since all the creators were making videos out of boredom or for fun, so they were incredibly original. These folks gradually went from having a few hundreds to millions of subscribers in the timespan of a decade, perhaps more. They quit their real-life jobs to become a fulltime YouTubers – which seems insane to many people. This sort of dedication is what contributes to their long term success. Many of them have their own movies, go on world tours, interview celebrities/ popular figures, publish books, open clothing lines,..etc. What is truly amazing, is they all come from humble beginnings, some even had to struggle both physically and mentally to achieve those impossibles.
Expectedly, there are numerous downsides of being dependent on YouTube, but it would make this a 50 part series. So, this is part 1 of the topic that I’ve always been passionate about. All in all, careerwise, I am 100% supportive of the idea of being a YouTuber. Although, of course, it is dicey and tiresome as any other job. Tune in the next issue of INSIDER for part 2! Adiós! Trang Le
The concept of learning by doing is not a secret anymore. This is the most efficient way to have a life-related experience, get connections with real companies and learn more about yourself. Innovate or Die’17 is all about this innovative approach in order to connect the creative students with companies which needs out of the box solutions for their challenges. 20 XAMK students got a chance to participate in this project and 12.10 they had a training session. Let`s lift the veil of secrecy and share valuable knowledge about idea creation process: • Brainstorming – write as many ideas as possible. Quantity not quality matters! • Incubation – have a lunch and have a fresh look at the ideas • Questioning – by question try to come up with one main idea • Pitching – sell the idea! Don’t hesitate to show your confidence! Couple more words about coaching session: students were given a task to come up with the idea for the biggest tourist attraction in Finland by 2020. Within less than two hours they worked in teams and finally pitched their ideas. Sauna GO – quest around saunas with tricky tasks in every checkpoint, NotherLtd – all Finnish winter experience in one place, VR Park and many other great ideas appeared just in such small period of time. Can you imagine now how awesome the result will be in the main event in November? Students there will be working 24 hours on one real case and will compete for 1000 euro. Think big or go home! Innovate or Die! Daria Chekalskaia
Getting tools for a prefect idea.
Pitching the idea from the training task.
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TIP OF THE WEEK TIME MANAGEMENT
We will be writing different tips for students’ weekly basis and we will cover from academic tips to free-time tips. This week’s tip is about time management. As we know managing our time is crucially important. It’s the skill and the discipline we develop now that will help us in the future. When we start managing our time we will get the feeling that we have a control over our lives. Plus,we will have more time to study and socialise. So here we go!
1. Start with being an early bird. Get up early and if you still can’t be awake take a cold shower that will help you. 2. Next get a calendar or an app calendar and mark the important dates such as deadline assignment, presentation, holidays, hobbies and exams. Etc. Make it clear and simple. 3. Do to-do list weekly if not daily. In this way you will be able to keep track of your studies and work. Make sure to include errands and study time. 4. When you are doing the to-do list priorities your tasks. Start with the important task first. 5. Get organised! From your study material to your daily routine and don’t forget to clean up. 6. Find good study space and get rid of any distractions such as phone, internet, friend or tv. Etc. Also, it’s important to have a break while studying. For example, 40/10 or 50/15. 7. Don’t forget to exercise. You will realise you are more active the day you exercise than the day you don’t. Go ahead and try. 8. Also, don’t forget to get a good night’s sleep. A good sleep is usually in between 7-8 hours. 9. Don’t forget to have you time and socialising time. 10. Reward yourself every while and then. Hafsa Farah
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PROFILE MIIA KARTTUNEN For this issue, I interviewed Miia karttunen, the language coordinator of XAMK, she talked both about Finnish language teaching and learning.
How long have you been teaching Finnish? I have been teaching Finnish since the year 2001. But this is my 7th year here. What is one of the most interesting things you think when you teach Finnish? It is always very pleasant to meet new groups full of enthusiasm. And teaching this first step of Finnish is my favorite so I suppose that’s the most interesting thing. Other side is that I am very pleased to see that some of my students who stay long in my Finnish lectures, they learn Finnish so well that they can even use it in working life, so that’s very nice. And one of the most difficult things in Finnish language teaching? Some of the most demanding grammatical things in Finnish language, the most hardworking ones. Because I can see that some students for example don’t have the same kind of grammar in their
own language have real difficulties in front of Finnish grammar which is very detailed and very hard in some points that is sometimes a little bit problematic but I suppose we have managed quite well in my groups. Any tips for Finnish learning? Hardworking, having Finnishspeaking friends, speaking Finnish every time when you can, working in Finland if you have a chance to work in your free time or do some things in Finnish, I mean, you go, for example as a volunteer somewhere use Finnish language with Finns, that’s important. If you could have the ability to speak another language, which one would you choose and why? I have studied quite many European languages but it could be very fun to learn some languages outside Europe. For example, Chinese could be very interesting to learn or Vietnamese. The language system in Europe I have already known, but I lack the knowledge of Asian languages.
A question from our former interviewee, will you spend the rest of your life in Finland if you can? Yes, I will. Lingli Jing
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The 25th installment for the Fifa series is the new video game Fifa 2018. It was released on the 28th of September. This sports video game stimulates association football. The game consists of 52 stadiums from 12 different countries,even new stadiums and also 30 generic fields. This game is avaliable for nintendo, playstation 3, playstation 4 and xbox. This time Fifa decided to have as its cover the forward player of Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo. The Fifa 18 was developed and published by Electronic Arts. Young people all around the world were waiting in exitment for the release date of this particular game, including myself and many friends of mine. I was able to talk to some of the few people who have had the opportunity to have the game in their hand. They provided me with informations about the game and also pictures. According to my sources the graphics of the new Fifa 18 were gorgeous and also the lighting as well. There were also some new negotiations in career. The only con of this game was that the career mode improvements may not go far enough for some. Stela Demaj
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EXCHANGE VIEW
GETTING SETTLED IN MALTA In the beginning or May we arrived in Malta. We had a one week holiday before starting the day care and the job. It was nice, we went around and tried to get used to the new neighbourhood, searched for good food stores and enjoyed a lot of pastizzi and ftira, local bakery products. Then the big day arrived – my first day as an intern! It was exciting: everyone in my team seemed really nice, but maybe a little bit too calm to my taste somehow. Maybe they were a bit shy at first, I don’t know. The company itself seemed perfect: the CEO was inspiring and enthusiastic and very down-to-earth, as was the owner, too. The company had the entire building to itself and our department was in the third floor. Our break room was just out of this world: we had a penthouse. It was near the ocean and we got to eat our lunch in spectacular views. Every morning the company provided us with fresh fruit, juice and coffee. And cold Pellegrino. So posh. Already after the first week of my internship I knew I’d want to stay here, so I asked my team leader whether it was possible to continue after the internship was over, and she said yes. We signed a new contract that was starting at the end of my internship and I already got a raise! All I needed to do at that point was to discuss this situation with my lecturers in Kouvola campus: I really wanted to finish my degree and I needed to do it remotely. Luckily I had an amazing student counsellor – you might have heard about him, Hugh Clack. He has been very supportive and has really helped a lot in this situation, which I will forever be grateful. Love you, Hugh! And this is a great opportunity to thank also all the other lecturers for giving me this possibility: Slaveya Hämäläinen, Jagat Kunwar, Päivi Ollila, Jarkko Ansamäki, Ulla Puustelli and Mari Maunula. Thank you all! Next week I’ll introduce you to a regular week of a content writer in iGaming. Suvi Karell
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HAMINA AR HACKATHON
Jury announce the winners. Last weekends (27-29.10) in a city of Kotka 6 teams of developers, coders, and other innovative and ambitious people gathered to compete at Hamina AR Hackathon. The task was to attract more tourists to Hamina World Flag park by creating a new AR educational and entertaining app. Hackathon is powered by Cursor and Ultrahack. This means that mentors and jury are real experts who work in actual businesses and can share their experiences with young hackers. And that is not all. The participants of this hackathon became members of Ultrahack community, which makes it easier for them to join to the next bigger hackathons in future. Hackathon is a great chance to show your talent to potential recruiters. At Hamina AR Hackathon, the employers from Dark Amber Softworks or Google were presented.
The key to the success in such events is to keep a balance between work and rest. Thus, the organizers of hackathon provided a plenty of leisure activities like VR glasses, sauna, workshops and even morning yoga. The event took place in Datariina, therefore all the teams had a plenty of free spaces where they can gather together for a discussion or simply to relax after a long day of writing a code. The prize for the winner was 4000 euros in cash. But money wasn’t the main reward. For the most part of the participants, this was their first hackathons. The experience they got, the connections they build, the ideas they created are far more important than win money. Anastasiia Abgarian
Morning yoga.
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THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
STUDIO 123 Kymenlaaksonkatu 1 45700 Kuusankoski 044 375 3686 www.studio123.fi 03.11-09.11.2017 STUDIO 1 OPERA DE PARIS: LA CENERENTOLA - TUHKIMO (S) | 23€ | 3h20min Sat 12:00 Thu 18:00
EERO AHO, MARKETTA TIKKANEN, JOHANNES HOLOPAINEN
Director: Aku Louhimies // Writers: Väinö Linna, Aku Louhimies Drama, War
An adaptation of Väinö Linna’s novel "The Unknown Soldier" of Finland’s Continuation War against Soviet Union, that in history takes place in 1941-1944. It is summer of the year 1941. Finland begins an attack against Soviet Union, to regain the land that was lost in the Winter War in 1940. Machine gun company gets the order to move into the front lines. The company wakes up the following morning by noises of shooting in the distance, the war has officially begun. Part of the soldiers have already seen the Winter War, but to some of the soldiers this is their first one. The film succeeds to show the emotions of the soldiers, and how afraid the first-time soldiers are in the beginning at the war. As the movie proceeds it is visible how death becomes major part of the soldier’s everyday life, and how sense of duty and anger towards their losses replaces their fear. Movie is third film version of the Finnish classic novel “The Unknown Soldier”. This film honours the original novel well, giving the movie nice modern touch without embellishing the war.
Lotta Lehtinen
TUNTEMATON SOTILAS (16) | 15€ | 3h Every evening 16:00, 18:45 THOR: RAGNAROK (12) | 12€ | 2h10min Fri-Mon, Wed-Thu 19:20
STUDIO 2 YÖSYÖTTÖ (S) | 11€ | 1h26min Every Evening 17:00 MY LITTLE PONY ELOKUVA (7) | 10€ | 1h39min Sat-Sun 15:00
STUDIO 3 VICTORIA & ABDUL (S) | 11€ | 1h48min Sat-Sun 15:00 PARIISI SAA ODOTTAA (PARIS CAN WAIT) (S) | 11€ | 1h33min Fri-Sat, Wed 17:40 LOVING VINCENT (12) | 11€ | 1h35min Sun-Mon 17:30 THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (16) | 12€ | 2h01min Fri, Sun, Mon 19:30 GEOSTORM (12) | 11€ | 1h49min Sat, Wed 19:30 SUSPIRIA (18) | 12€ | 1h40min Tue 19:30 Students/armed services, pensioners 1€ discount on all full priced tickets of 10€ or more
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presents
INTERNATIONAL WEEK 6.-10.11. 2017 MONDAY 6th 12:00-13:30 FOOD TASTING
(tastes of Germany, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Sweden and Russia) in the 2nd floor lobby
12:30-13:15 SALSA DANCE WORKSHOP in the main lobby
14:30-16:30 GAMING INDUSTRY INSIGHTS by Kim Soares in classroom 357
16:30-19:30 INTENSIVE COURSE ON BANKING
2 ECTS - lectures by Ivan Grezeta and Sasa Zikovic (University of Rijeka, Croatia) in classroom 140
TUESDAY 7th Kasarmi restaurant offers Mexican themed food 12:00-13:30 FOOD TASTING (tastes of Spain, Hungary, China, France and Belarus) in the 2nd floor lobby
12:30-13:15 BOLLYWOOD DANCE WORKSHOP in the main lobby
14:30-18:30 INTENSIVE COURSE ON BANKING by Grezeta and Zikovic in classroom 140
WEDNESDAY 8th 11:00-12:30 FOOD TASTING
(tastes of Belgium, Italy, Albania, Finland, Somalia and Pakistan) in the 2nd floor lobby
12:30-13:30 KEY NOTE SPEAKER: TONI TAVI in the Amica auditorium
13:30-14:15 RUSSIAN DANCE WORKSHOP in the main lobby
14:00-15:00 DESIGN, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP a lecture by Norbert Meier (Lucerne UAS and Arts, Switzerland) in classroom 359
16:30-19:30 INTENSIVE COURSE ON BANKING by Grezeta and Zikovic in classroom 140
22:00-04:00 INTERNATIONAL PARTY by Kupla in El Mundo
THURSDAY 9th Kasarmi restaurant offers Asian themed food 14:30-16:30 INTENSIVE COURSE ON BANKING by Grezeta and Zikovic in classroom 140
FRIDAY 10th 12:30-14:30 INTENSIVE COURSE ON BANKING by Grezeta and Zikovic in classroom 140
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