Merit Raju
1) What are you studying?
Tallinn Technical University. BBA (Marketing, Accounting)
2) In which city do you live?
Tallinn (Hannover until end of August)
3) What are your future plans?
In September I will enroll in my (hopefully!) final semester at TTU. At the end of this year I should have my Bachelor’s degree in BA. So first of all I have to write my Bachelor thesis. In September I’ll go to Finland again, to Mikkeli, to take part in a „Summer“-course about e-commerce. After that I’m planning to find a job in Tallinn. The year 2001 will probably be partly in Tallinn and partly in Germany together with Sven. But first I have to find a possibility to make my MBA there.
4) What is your preferred email address?
Merit.raju@mail.ee
5) What was your best experience in Lahti?
  • to have the possibility to enjoy snow all winter long
  • to print in the computer room as much as we wanted
  • to notice that it’s possible to uderstand lectures in English
  • trips to Lapland, Tallinn and St.Petersburg
  • and – to get to know all of you!
6) What was your worst experience in Lahti?
  • to get letters from a maniac who wanted to have sex with me and Elen and from our angry neighbours because of laughing at night
7) Would you advice young students to go abroad?
Of course! Than they’ll see that life has a bright side. I mean compared to living together with the parents in the same house for 21 years. Maybe we didn’t learn much about International Business Management and Logistics, but it was an international, intercultural, interpersonal and interesting experience
8) Are you still in contact with your tutor(s)?
No
9) Have you made new friends in Finland?
Yes... mostly from my own country, but..... after these 4 months in Lahti Sven is the most important person for me. Because of him I’m the happiest person in the world!
10) Do you plan to post scanned images/media to the Community?
Yes
11) What is your personal message to the community?
I’m happy that I had a possibility to get to know all of you. So let’s try to keep touch! And it was an unbelievable great feeling to meet someone again. For excample  already met Axel inLüneburg and Laurent came to visit me in Hannover. And Sven of course...

...without Mukkula it wouldn`t happen as you know.
I think this photo helps you remember these four snowy months in Finland.

At the moment I don`t have any more photos with me concerning last semester.

But I`m sure Sven was anyway the best thing ever happened to me.
So I hope one photo is enough. And when I`ll go back home end of August
I`ll try to add here some more.
I wish you all the best!

Merit

created on 8.8.2000