Anastasia Dubinina

My hands are trembling slightly as I type this – I finally have news to share! My story “Life on the Island” will soon be available to readers. After months of writing and rewriting, of doubt and conviction alternating like tides, this work is finally ready to make its way into the world. The feeling

The Imperial College campus buzzes with academic energy, but my mind frequently wanders beyond its modern glass structures to the city that surrounds it. London in winter holds a particular kind of magic—a dance between shadow and illumination, history and innovation, belonging and alienation. As I navigate my first months of the Strategic Marketing program,

London is shrouded in November fog, dissolving the outlines of buildings and transforming the city into a space between reality and dream. On such days, you feel especially acutely how thin the line is between the material and the imagined. I write these lines sitting in a half-empty café near South Kensington—a district that will