Time flies inexorably and what is now quite familiar for us will soon be perceived for the oddity of the future generation. Today we will talk about the "old school".
Our parents and many of us still can guess what's what, but it's not far off that day when students will find it hard to understand such elementary truths for us.
1. Secret Notes
You sit on a pair, and then an airplane letter arrives at your desk. You open it, but there "Look at the ceiling." You take and you look. Nothing special is there, but the group for some reason chokes with laughter, because I'm already the 10th person who does that, which raises his head. Common situation? Probably, everyone through this passed and became a "victim" of such a rally.
2. Tutorials in the cover
Many of the school had the habit of taking the books in the library necessarily wrapped in a paper cover, which in most cases were wallpapers. Someone gave vent to their talents and decorated it, and someone else pasted it with adhesive tape.
3. Leaves with holes
Of course, someone relaxes when bursts of air bubbly film, and someone - tearing holes on the leaves in notebooks with a spring. Of course, the occupation is rather strange, but many help to move away from student problems, forgetting for a moment that the session is on the nose.
4. Course and diskettes
"Floppy disks? What is it? ", Many students will ask. Some of us remember how they saved their work on this removable media. They ran to the nearest copy center, in order to have time to print out everything necessary until tomorrow. Moreover, the maximum memory size of this magnetic disk was only 1.44 MB.
5. Feast for the whole world
The average student, as soon as he received the scholarship, necessarily spent part of the amount on the first day, taking her to a noisy gathering at one of the classmates in the hostel. Of course, then a fortnight had to be saved, but there is something to remember and what to laugh at from the heart.
6. Snack bar
If now students can have a snack at McDonalds, then many have previously visited pelmeni, most of which had exceptionally high tables. In such dinners, students ran quickly to eat, so there was no time to sit down.
7. Copier at home
Students call it simply "Overlay drawing". All that is needed to create such a gadget is, first of all, two stools on which glass is put. Under the latter place a lamp aimed at the glass, on which the drawing itself and the blank sheet are placed. Total, the lamp shines through both the drawing and the sheet. Many, however, managed to glue both sheets to the windowpane.
8. Dead Souls
There are only 10 people in the audience, and a list of 15 people is made on the sheet. It's familiar, is not it? Well, if the teacher is not so principled and does not begin to recount the students. In this case, he will either forgive the truants, or the latter will have to recite the lecture of the day by heart.
9. Superman function
There is a category of teachers who like to check their students for endurance and ask the house to rewrite the entire methodology. Of course, only the chosen ones have enough willpower to manually copy everything to the last page, but then how much pride for themselves.
10. Cribs
If you can now write off with modern gadgets, then the night before the exam, students spent a lot of time to create cheat sheets. They could be in the form of an accordion, micro-leaves. Some managed to write down the necessary formulas for the legs, hiding, thus, a cheat sheet under the skirt.
11. The game "Snake"
Remember, as soon as the first mobile phones came out, or rather our population had an opportunity to buy them, many students in boring lectures raised a snake, playing Snake? In this game you control a thin creature, reminiscent of a snake. She crawls on the plane and collects food. The more you eat, the longer it becomes and the more difficult it is to manage. Lose if you run into your own tail.
12. Superstitions
"Balloon, come!" - shouted many students from the windows during the new moon. It would seem that the usual superstition, in which there is almost no share of truth, but in college life more like to believe in something incredible than to cram for days on end. Someone on the night before the test put a textbook or a notebook under the pillow, so that in a dream the lectures slowly passed into consciousness. Someone carried with them their lucky object, a guard, and medical students on the day of the exam put on a robe or cap of an honors pupil.
13. Abstracts by hand
Before everyone could afford to buy a laptop, coursework, essays and even diploma papers were written by hand. It was a painful job and, as well, that everything is over.
14. Evenings with a guitar
At the weekend, some students who did not leave home, but stayed in the walls of the hostel, collected all the tenants and arranged gatherings. Necessarily someone took the guitar and all the guests, as if by magic, started to sing a song popular at the time.
15. "Doshirak"
In the daily diet of economical students necessarily included instant noodles "Doshirak" or "Mivina." Of course, there is not a drop of useful substances in it, but you can eat and for a long time not think about what to throw this into your mouth.