Vol 20 issue 07

INSIDER 24.11.2017 | VOL. 20 | ISSUE 07

STUDENT MAGAZINE OF XAMK

OVERWATCH TOURNAMENT    

SEX EDUCATION IN MIKKELI INNOVATE OR DIE TIP: BECOME A BLOGGER BANANA BREAD

THIS WEEK  PROFILE  EXCHANGE VIEW  JUSTICE LEAGUE

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

Long Nguyen Layout Editor

Setareh Nourzad Abkenar Kouvola Current Affairs

Hugh Clack Editor in Chief

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EDITORIAL So, w e did intern ationathe best l wee k!

Thanks for taking part in, everyone was amazing. The most impressive event was definitely food tasting for me, there you got the chance to tastes foods from different countries, Albania, China, Italy, Spain etc. and of course, Finland! Thanks to our chefs, you guys made the best foods for sure! And of course, we have to thanks to all the students from IB17(including myself^^), they all took part in the food tasting part, you guys are the best.

As Finland is getting darker and colder, why don't you go exercise? There is a nice gym in the center of Kouvola. It's always good to spend your time on workout, for it keeps both physically and mentally health.

For this issue we have special justice league from Lotta, and as usual, lovely recipe from Trang, want to know what dish she brings us? Go and check it out. What's more, our new horoscope section for you from Stela, for those who loves horoscope, don’t miss it from now on.

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INNOVATE OR DIE

No distractions. Only work.

Free food, probably, was not the main reason to come to this event. Applying your innovative ideas, show up and make connections with local companies, get real-life experience (and 1000 euro if you are creative enough) – these were real motivation for 300 students to come to Innovate or Die! Around 15 XAMk students tested themselves in creating an innovative solution for different local companies within 24 hours. Sleepless night, fun working hours and unforgettable experience.

Cases from the companies were challenging and required pre-investigation, tough working for 24 hours and perfect pitch. Hot to attract more people to the company? How to change people’s perceiving of the company?

Hot to create a new product? You think you can manage? Apply next time!

Strong points about innovation process in the team: - You need to know everyone`s strengths and weaknesses. Be ready that another person can have completely different approach and vision.

- Think about your team members. Some of you can be night owls and it`s not a problem to stay long hours working. But what if they perform better in the mornings?

- Each idea must be written. What is not written – doesn’t exist.

- Sharing responsibilities according to the skills and interests.

- Chemistry in the team. Kindness and openness to all crazy ideas. Support & sharing food.

Right now there is a boom of hackathons, competitions. If you care about your future, participate as much as you can. 2 days experience – your way to contribute to your development.

Daria Chekalskaia

Ideation process

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Think big or go home!

Official poster Do you know how to have a safe sex? How to protect yourself from STD’s? What is HIV and what do you need to know about it? Wondering the same questions, a group of XAMK students arranged a seminar on sex education in Mikkeli Campus.

Organizers of this event are international environmental engineering students: Anh Nguyen, Nguyen Duy, Phuong Minh, and Lim Zen Yang. The topic was selected because sensitive attitude towards sex disturbs sharing info about health protection. So, the students decided to start a frank dialogue XAMK community.

Phuong says, the support for the event for was provided by Finnish red cross, HIV point, student union Kaakko and the Finnish Union of Engineering Students.

The event consisted of two parts. On 8th of November, the organizers promoted the main event in the main lobby. They prepared a stand, handed out condoms and invited a band, that performed on the stage in Dexi.

As a second part, on 15th of November, students organized a free seminar.

During the seminar, students discussed save sex rules, transmission diseases through unsafe sex, HIV/AIDS, and advanced protection techniques. As a guest lecturer, Seila Minttu from public health department was invited. The speaker received quite many questions, most of them relating to STDs and safe sex. For example, what are the methods for contraception or how to protect oneself when accidentally be infected by STDs. Students gave feedback that the seminar is helpful. It provided valuable information and helped them to find reliable answers to their questions.

Anastasiia Abgarian

Free condoms

The organizers: Nguyen Duy, Lim Zen Yang, Anh Nguyen and Phuong Minh

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OVERWATCH

Kouvola City Ry Stadium Last week, in Kouvola downtown, a special event happened, which was the final rounds for Finnish Student Championships of Overwatch held in Kouvola City Ry. Briefly, Overwatch is a FSC-program-based esport competition formed by Gaing Barracks, a XAMK students’ gaming community. To get the tickets to the final tournament in Kouvola, the best 08 teams of all had to compete against others through online qualifiers. No matter where you are in Finland, all you need is to gather your team and accept challenges to win thousand euors in cash and a trophy for the finalist.

On 18th-19th of November 2017, teams from all around Finland came to our gorgeous Kouvola to fight for the prize. They all tried their hardest but only the best can win which was XAMK Yellow, a team from our school.

Please give them a big applause for what they did. And also the others cannot be forgot because of their hard attempts in this championship tournament. During the event, Jimm's provided a couples of computers for attendees to enjoy the game. It was also streamed and casted by the most well-known host, Tomi "Tombha" Rinne There was a letter of thanks sent to their sponsors: Jimm’s, Kouvola city and XAMK to make this event happen.

Long Nguyen

Combatting corner by Jimm's

Caster - Tomi "Tombha" Rinne

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Event Sponsors

PROFILE

AYLA SEYEDIN For this issue, I interviewed Ayla Seyedin, she is a game design student from Romania and also a cosplayer.

Why did you choose to study in Finland?

Because the possibilities I have here which I don’t have from where I come from, Romania. The people here are friendly and the environment of education is much better.

I noticed that you are a cosplayer, so how do you feel about being a cosplayer?

Well I have been cosplaying for two years now, I cosplay for conventions and my own free time.

It’s fun to be a different character rather than your personal self.

Do you think your study field is kind of related to cosplay?

In a way. Because they both require imagination and a creative mind, in game design I create my own characters based on the things I like, probably cosplay them and be the character that I am thinking of.

Is there any other interest besides cosplaying?

Crafting. Like usually I use the materials I find around which help me make my own cosplays. I also use materials like clay and other small objects to make jewelries and smaller crafts.

What question do you want to ask to our next interviewee?

Why did you choose to study in Xamk?

Lingli Jing

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TIP OF THE WEEK BECOME A BLOGGER

Do you like writing, sharing your stories or being creative?

Then, blogging could be your thing. Anyone can start blogging, Its verily easy regardless of your skills or professions. You just need purpose, passion, discipline and determination. Nowadays, blogging is becoming increasingly popular. The reason why is, people are beginning to realize just how much owning a blog can help them.

Blogging is a place to share your thoughts and your passions. It’s about teaching or sharing what you know and what you are learning to the world. It really could be anything you want it to be. Such as traveling-, food- or makeup and fashion blogs.

So, let’s start your blog!

- Pick a blog name. In other words, domain name. A name that describes your blog purpose.

- Register your blog and get hosting. For, example you could try WordPress or Bluehost.

- Next start customizing and tweaking your template. Make it simple and clean.

- Here is the fun part! Write and publish your post. Create high-quality content and promoting your blog and making it known is the tricky part.

Few ways to find your topic is to consider your hobbies, life-style experience, passion or you could do a personal blog. In that way, you share your thoughts to the world without sticking into one topic.

The tricky part of the entire process is promoting your blog. Especially, when you are beginner but don’t worry. Take advantage of the social media twitter, fb, BuzzFeed or Instagram. It’s great way your blog to go viral. Let your friends and family members share the links to get more readers, followers and engaging with your audience is the key too.

Blogging is one of the things that you won’t master over night as usual. You keep learning and gradually you will become a pro. If you haven’t already consider blogging or hesitating, then just do it!

Try it, you might surprise yourself.

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EXCHANGE VIEW NEW CHALLENGES

Though content writing was great, I faced some difficulties outside the office: my son caught every possible disease from day care, since we did not have resistance to the bacteria and viruses here. I needed to be at home a lot with him. This reduced my sick leave: in Malta the system is very different compared to Finland! You have a certain amount of days in a year you are entitled to use for sick leave for your children and yourself. I ended up having to use all of them, since as said, son caught everything!

I tried to negotiate with the company that on those days that my son is ill, I could work remotely from home, since my tasks were something I could in fact do remotely. This hughever (see, I did it again) was not possible according to the company policies. They offered me a chance to do use my vacation days in case my son is ill again, which seemed unfair to me, since after all, I wrote 2000-5000 words more in a week that was required of me. It was time to look for another job.

I noticed a job announcement of a position of a brand executive for an online casino. They told they were looking for someone who could work both in Finnish and Swedish. I hesitated for a while, since my Swedish is not completely fluent, but on the other hand I like the language and can use it pretty well anyways. I decided to take my chances. It paid off, I got invited to an Skype interview. It went perfect and the next day I already had another interview with the brand manager. After the interview I received a case study. I needed to come up with a plan on how to turn non-profitable customers profitable, plan an entire campaign that included cross-selling and finally, write a blog article. I did it all in just two nights, 6 000 words, since the task was just so interesting.

And I got hired! Lesson here: take your chances, believe in yourself, go for it!

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BANANA BREAD

For some reasons, I had always been hesitated when talking about making breads from scratch in the past, until I found out about banana bread – the easiest and most fantastic bread of them all in my opinion. This recipe requires no mixer or expensive equipment whatsoever. The hardest step is actually the waiting time while it is in the oven. Let’s jump right in.

How to make it: 1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. 2. With a whisk, mix butter and sugar in a bowl till fluffy and light.

3. Beat in the egg and whisk well.

4. Peel the bananas and add them into the bowl. Mash thoroughly until there is no visible chunk.

5. Add flour, baking soda and salt. Fold the mixture in with a spatula.

6. Mix in as many almonds and chocolate chips as you like. A little too much chocolate won’t hurt anybody!

7. Once well mixed, pour the batter into a mold and spread it out evenly. Top it off with more almonds for decoration.

8. Put it in the oven for approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. I know this is a painfully long time but trust me, it is worth every minute.

9. When you stick a toothpick in the middle of the bread and it comes out clean, take it out of the oven and let it rest for a few minutes.

10. Cut the bread into slices and enjoy with a cup of tea or hot chocolate of your choice.

And that’s it! A warm banana bread with oozing chocolate pieces and aromatic toasted almonds is waiting for you to make. I have tried this recipe plenty of times and I always had fun making it. It is perfect for sharing with friends on a cosy Sunday night gathering or even by yourself. Good luck!

Trang Le

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Ingredients: 1-2 bananas (the riper the better) 1 egg 150g butter ½ cup brown sugar 1 cup all purpose flour ¾ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt sliced almonds and chocolate chips (optional)

BEN AFFLECK, GAL GADOT, JASON MOMOA

Director: Zack Snyder / Writers: Chris Terrio, Joss Whedon Fantasy, Action

STUDIO 123 Kymenlaaksonkatu 1 45700 Kuusankoski 044 375 3686 www.studio123.fi 24.11-30.11.2017 STUDIO 1 TUNTEMATON SOTILAS (16) | 15€ | 3h Fri - Sun, Wed - Thu 16:00, 18:45 Mon - Tue 18:45 JUSTICE LEAGUE (12) | 12€ | 2h Sun - Tue 19:20 IDÄN PIKAJUNAN ARVOITUS (12) | 11€ | 1h54min Fri - Sat, Wed - Thu 19:20

STUDIO 2 Movie that I personally have waited for a long time. I enjoyed the movie “Wonder Woman” (2017), so I was hyped up to see all the Justice League heroes in this one movie. "Justice League" is sequel to the “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” (2016). The movie is more logical if you have already seen the “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”, but it is still fully understandable without having seen it.

"Justice League" continues where the previous movie was left off. Superman has now been deceased for a while, and Batman’s visions of Steppenwolf’s return has become a reality. Steppenwolf is a hellish creature that was defeated in a war 5000 years ago, that unified humans with folks of Atlantis and the warrior women of Themyscira. With all the races unified they were able to win the Steppenwolf and exile him and his army from earth. Now after 5000 years has passed, humans aren’t working together neither recognise the existence of the other supernatural human races. Without the previous union the bad forces see the world to be in a weak state, and therefore become rise to destroy and take over the whole world.

To win against the Steppenwolf’s army, Batman begins to aggregate the union back together to fight the common enemy.

The movie is highly visual and full of action scenes, where supernatural creatures fight each other and try stop injustice from happening. It is not too serious and there is always humour added to it. This was the first movie where Aquaman had a proper part. They succeeded to make him more credible, because the comic book version of him was not too impressive.

The plot in this movie is quite simple, but to me the main point in this one is the fighting scenes and the high visual side it has. Movie tells the main points of the origin stories of the characters. I can see that the makers assumed the viewers already to know something, or they are saving the detailed origin stories to the character’s own films. It can be a good thing, since it keeps the curiosity towards the new movies alive. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, it was simple but amusing and I enjoyed how the film looks visually.

HEINÄHATTU; VILTTITOSSU JA RUBENSIN VELJEKSET (S) | 10€ | 1h31min Every Evening 17:00 Sat - Sun 15:00 THOR: RAGNAROK (12) | 12€ | 2h10min Mon - Thu 19:20

STUDIO 3 YÖSYÖTTÖ (S) | 11€ | 1h26min Sat, Mon - Tue 17:00 PADDINGTON 2 (DUB) (7) | 11€ | 1h45min Fri, Sun, Wed - Thu 17:00 THE SQUARE (12) | 12€ | 2h22min Sun - Tue 19:00 MY LITTLE PONY ELOKUVA (7) | 10€ | 1h39min Sat - Sun 15:00 ARMOMURHAAJA (16) | 11€ | 1h23min Fri - Sat, Wed - Thu 19:00 Students/armed services, pensioners 1€ discount on all full priced tickets of 10€ or more

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