Winners of 'How I Decided to Come Study at the HSE’ Contest Announced
Students and alumni of the university can participate in the competition, which has been taking place at the Higher School of Economics since 2010. This year work was accepted under two categories – written and visual.
In the visual category, the contest’s jury awarded first place to Rinat Tairov (freshman in the Faculty of Media Communications) for his work One Day, or How I Got into the HSE. A consolation prize was awarded to Lin Yang (first-year master’s student in the International College of Economics and Finance) for the work The Journey of My HSE Life. The jury decided not to award second and third place in this category.
In the written category, first place was not awarded. Second place went to Alevtina Baynakova (first-year master’s student in the Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning) for her work Signs of Spring. Third place was shared by Dmitry Bondarev (freshman in the Faculty of Law) for his work In Seventh Grade I Was Sure I'd Study in Moscow. In Ninth — at the HSE; Sophia Bykova (sophomore in the Faculty of Philosophy), who is certain that Accidents Are Not Accidental; Maxim Vorobyev (junior in the School of Applied Mathematics and Information Science) for A Poem on the Magical Admission; Anastasia Zemlyanaya (junior in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs) for A Story on Unfortunate First Love, or How I Got into the HSE; and Alexandra Selezneva (freshman in the Faculty of Management) for her work Are You Sure We Exited Where We Were Supposed To?.
The authors of the best materials will receive a cash prize: 1st place – 15,000 rubles, 2nd place – 10,000 rubles, and third place – 5,000 rubles.
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