in the pub; it was only 2 hours, a good month before the trip, but it took the edge off working together. It also made getting accommodation together much less of a hassle. I think it can be hard to get a sense of people's housing priorities, budgets, requirements and red lines when you've never met them face-to-face. We ended up with great accommodation and got on really well, and neither of those things is exclusively because we went to Turf in June - but I was less worried about both, having done that. Implicit in the above: getting accommodation together can be really nice! Made bills and socialising much easier. Double-check your health insurance if you've not travelled since Brexit, invest in a monthly student transit card if on an internship in Budapest... but yes I think meeting up is the main thing. All the little irritations of travelling and living abroad are easier if you know the people.
COLD WAR RESEARCH CENTRE Olena Tian, Masters-level student, MA Russian and East European Studies, Remote working Work Projects I was mainly working with the Open Society Archives entries my main duty was to write their short summaries and compile a document with them. The Cold War Center is going to publish their updated Chronology of the Cold War Part 1 (1945-1952) in December, therefore most urgently they need more archival entries to be processed. I was also given a task to find 15 events during the Cold War for their Facebook project On this day. All Oxford interns were also asked to analyze a chapter on Eastern Europe during the early years of the Cold War from The Cambridge History of the Cold War. We then had an extremely interesting discussion with professor Csaba BKS on the events in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia in 1945-1968. During the whole time of my internship,
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