At the end of the fifth year

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

It will happen in a month. I will receive a diploma in higher education in the humanities and graduate from the University. From now on, employers will perceive me not as an intern or trainee, but as a young specialist. With a corresponding increase in wages. I will stop taking time off from sessions and start getting an overtime bonus. The state will no longer pay me a scholarship; on the contrary, I will pay him 13% of my salary every month. I will no longer take exams and, finally, I will acquire the right to read not what I need for my studies, but what I want. I will not write any more term papers - I am exhausted! And I will no longer sit in the library, taking notes on an article of some classic.

Then why do I feel like crying? Because I do not want to part with my studies! There are no more lectures; Now I rarely go to Univer, but when I meet some classmate in my home, there is no limit to joy. And, if during the study we did not have common topics, now any familiar face automatically turns into a best friend. We talk, we talk, and both have the same belated sense of kinship. So this is what our trade unionists had in mind when they talked about the student fraternity! It's a pity, we almost ceased to be students.

And real friends … - oh, this is a separate and very tragic story! When my friend Gavrik calls me, he always sadly says: "Helen, and in fact a little more - and we will all scatter in all directions." Yes, I myself remember this, and we all remember. Earlier and now we are united by study: lectures, exams, visits to the library, common problems - common life. But time passed - and one after another we got good jobs and appeared at the University less often. And now - we will pass the state exams, our last session, we will have our graduation party … And that's it! We will scatter in all directions, as our beloved friend Gavrik says.

Many students after graduation go to graduate school - not out of love for science, but in order not to part with the University. Because the longed-for freedom from study now, at the end of the fifth year, no longer seems so attractive. It's time to grow up. Previously, it was possible to work anywhere, for the sake of pleasure, to earn so that "enough for beer" and not think about anything. And even if study was not the main and most energy-intensive occupation, all the same, the status of a student gave the right to take life easily. How many nightclubs we went around! Often - for free, for a student, or with a big discount. How many suburbs have traveled in boats and with tents! How many crazy parties there were, when in the morning you have a headache from a drunk "four" and from thunderous music. And how good it was to feel "forever young, forever drunk"! And it seemed that everything was still ahead. And this "all" will certainly be common, because we could not imagine life without each other. Our youth team. The team I can't live without.

We will become adults in a month. It doesn't matter that we have already noted the entry into maturity several times - at 16, at 18, at 21. Real maturity for domestic girls-boys is after graduation. The people are seriously going to move away from their parents. The girls began to think about marriage.

By the end of the fifth year, higher education opened up to us from a new angle - and we realized how wrong and far-sighted we were, skipping some "completely nonsense" lectures. It is already clear that then it was necessary to strain, force yourself to be interested in the topic and listen. Trust the experienced graduate: there is no superfluous knowledge of the subject. Now it is a shame to realize that we have not received something, that there are white spots in our beautiful diplomas - and solely through the fault of our own stupidity and laziness. And especially the cribs and "automatic machines" will come back to haunt - they will come around during the writing of the diploma and during GOS. No fun, people, no fun. As you think: what was worth then to learn better. And now all the exams fall in one bottle, like the devil with a bag of nails in student paradise: "Well, brother, session!"

In general, young people, do not repeat our mistakes. Appreciate the years of study as they are priceless. Enjoy student life. Make strong friendships. Look for love. And one more thing: don't work! Believe me again, wise by experience: you will work all your life, and study - only five years. Enjoy what is called youth to the fullest: go for a walk, have fun, get drunk, spend your last money, spin crazy novels. Studentship - that's why it is the time of recklessness and great achievements. And it’s quite a trifle: no matter what the enthusiasts say, the study will end for you on the same day the work begins. It is impossible to combine this. Impossible. Postpone labor exploits and big money until 22 years old - until retirement and then it will be far away. This means that a lot of money will not go away from you - which cannot be said about youth.