Hi! I am Vanya and I am 18 years old. I have been living alone in Moscow for nine months now and I support myself by working as a web developer at a startup. By the way, I lived all my life on Sakhalin, but often visited Moscow on business or just to meet with friends, so in May 2023 I moved to a cozy studio in the north-west of Moscow. Furthermore, I always tried to achieve more for my age, so already at the age of 17 I separated from my parents and began to immerse myself in an independent life, because of this, after 11th grade I decided to take a gap year. After the gap year, I plan to enroll at HSE’s Moscow campus this year. 2 years ago, I first became acquainted with the HSE Olympiads as a participant and from that moment I have been very inspired by them, and now I help develop almost all DDIC (Directorate for the Development of Intellectual Competitions) projects on the part of the organizer.