I help applicants stand out from the rest of the students. An average admission committee member reads 50 letters a day, and an Ivy League admissions officer takes just about 90 seconds to review one essay! It is very important to secure the reader’s attention from the very first lines of the essay and make sure they’ll remember it for longer than 90 seconds.

The practice of writing motivation and recommendation letters is not very common in Russia, so it might be difficult for students to understand how to approach this task.

At UniPage, I help applicants structure their thoughts by asking clarifying questions and making sure the language they use is consistent with the requirements.

The most difficult thing for me (and often for the students themselves) is to find their unique selling point. It’s not easy for anyone to look at themselves through the eyes of an outsider and find interesting points in their biography.

My job is to do just that. After we’re finished writing, it’s fun to compare the original short essay which looks more like a dry extract from Wikipedia, and the final version, exciting and movie-like.

It happened that this language was always around. When I was a kid, my dad showed me children's shows in English, then I studied it at school... But, of course, internal motivation is always the strongest, so when I couldn’t wait for the translation of the next episode of my favorite series, I began studying English with all the passion I had.

Now not a single day goes by without English: I watch films, read books and listen to music in it every day. I can no longer imagine that I once didn’t know English at all.

I like it when the result of my work can be assessed in the "before — after" format. This is why I find this job very fitting to my personality.

I also like that the texts I work on can truly make dreams come true.

After school, I studied to become an English teacher, but I soon realized that I liked working with texts much more. Then, after getting my bachelor’s degree, I became a translator and worked as one for almost three years.

I liked working on creative texts that you can put a part of yourself into. This is why I often translated marketing texts, commercials and booklets on a range of topics, from cosmetics to woodworks.

In 2019, I went to Nottingham on a student exchange program. As I see it now, I was lucky to have done it then, with the pandemic starting the next year.

I realized that everything would be different in England in my first university class. During a lecture on Literature and Pop Culture, I was greeted by a still from "Twilight" on a projector and a lecturer dressed as Dracula.

Going to Nottingham, I expected a full immersion into English culture. However, meeting students from different countries helped me learn a lot about Sweden, Canada, Belgium...

I wanted to get as much as possible from the experience of studying abroad and see absolutely everything in the UK. To do this, we tried going to other cities. It was eerie and amazing to see all those places from textbook covers in real life. This was also the first time I finally got to use the speaking "topics" that I memorized for the English school exams. I told other foreign students interesting facts about the country, for example, whose statue stands in Trafalgar Square.

I am very grateful for this experience. It helped me improve my language level, gain new knowledge, and grow as a person.

My list of countries that I’ve visited is very modest: only Great Britain and the Czech Republic. I would love to visit many more and learn about new cultures. I think that the experience of traveling greatly influences one’s personality.

I love going to museums, reading books and watching TV series.