Can you imagine a world without online shopping? Without nice pictures in the store and an awesome design? Nowadays you can find everything online from clothes to diapers and order it 24/7, which is quite awesome. Even better in this case is that we have a course at Arcada, which teaches you how to build your own webstore! You think now: “My own webstore? Really? I am sure we need…
Read moreWelcome back to Ask a Californian! The place in online space that lets you ask well meaning if uncomfortably direct questions that others would simply shun. With the change in seasons and drop in temperature, many of the less Finnish students here at Arcada may be noticeably shocked; but the answer to the question “Are you cold?” doesn’t have to be yes. In fact the answer to this weeks question…
Read moreIt is my great honor to introduce Ask a Californian! the blog that allows you (the reader) to reach out with the most thought provoking, absurd, and potentially irrelevant questions you can come up with; to which I (an honest-to-goodness Californian) will without fail assemble compelling, indiscreet, dubiously relevant answers. So from now on if you are perplexed by a pesky problem, are consumed by crushing curiosity, or are blindsided by…
Read moreDuring one of the meetings, student motivation came across as one of the topics. It is always fascinating to think, what motivates another person. How could you know, you are not him/her? I started with myself – what motivated me to study back then and how did it changed now, after working for few years. At some point I was studying for the grades. Memory is very subjective to when…
Read moremy work in the lab was not love at first sight not even at second the first time i left my work almost crying of happiness that i won’t ever have to see her again i can recollect the feeling of releif when i closed the door behind me on the day the contract was over then i got free, moved to another country, had little work-affairs here and there…
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