We also would provide local authorities with the proof of extreme necessity to work offline.'įinding similar threads between Ukraine and the U.S.Īlthough the American students obviously do not share the experiences of attending college during war, design engineering student Hannah Weist, 21, says the constant threat of missiles in Ukraine reminds her of the constant threat of gun violence in schools in the U.S. 'In the university, we do have a shelter, but our students come from different towns and cities of Ukraine and we'd have to arrange bomb shelters in the hostels and dorms. 'We are about 100 kilometers from the front line, so we are regularly bombed by missiles,' Ishchenko says. Professor Tamara Ishchenko, Samotuga's instructor in Dnipro, says she spends around five hours in her shelter each day. 'After more than one year of war, it doesn't scare me anymore,' her classmate, Eva Kusch, says, as she bolts a window shut on her vlog entry.Īlfred Nobel students attend classes online because of the war. 'Let's go to our shelter due to alarm,' she narrates. In her vlog, Darina Dorokhina, 21, is sitting in her shelter with her cat. It turned out that the students' lives were comparable in many ways - other than the air raid sirens. One of the class projects was filming a day-in-the-life vlog. And it's hard to imagine anything more absurd than Russia and its narratives.' 'We make jokes not because we are indifferent, but because we have adapted to it. 'In reality, humor is one of the greatest instruments for protecting our mental state,' Yan Samosiienko, a Ukrainian student wrote on Discord. Osgood decided to bring in a therapist to show the class how to support their Ukrainian classmates going through trauma. 'They said, 'Well, we don't want to re-traumatize them.''

'At one point in a conversation, one of the Ukrainian students mentioned her experience in the war and no one responded,' Colorado School of Mines professor Kenneth Osgood tells NPR.

The last class session with students from Alfred Nobel University in Dnipro, Ukraine, and science and engineering students from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.

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