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My First Winter in Smolensk — What Nobody Tells You
November to February as a first-year Indian student from a warm state. The cold, the homesickness, the adjustment — and what actually helped.
Real accounts written by my brother (a current MBBS student at SSMU) and our family — not marketing copy, not agent content.
We write about things we wished we'd known. If you have a question we haven't covered, ask us directly.
November to February as a first-year Indian student from a warm state. The cold, the homesickness, the adjustment — and what actually helped.
Room size, bathroom situation, the Indian mess food quality, what to bring from India, and what you'll buy in Smolensk. With photos described in detail.
The subjects, the exam pressure, the professors, the difference between Year 1 theory and Year 2 clinical thinking. What surprised us and what we'd change.
My brother left for Smolensk in September 2023. Before he went, our family spent weeks trying to find honest information about what it's actually like — not the agent brochures, not the university website, but real answers to real questions.
We couldn't find them. So now that he's there and we know what it's actually like, we write about it. These posts are his words and our family's questions — turned into guides for the next family going through the same process.
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