Humorous Essays Based on students' memories
"All have died
except for those who are alive, and those whom we remember"Confucius
- From the author
- Review of a book by O.P.Syedyshev "The Guys"
- Copyright
The Guys
Essay 1. How I became a student
Essay 2. Mini-dorm
Essay 3. Arkasha
Essay 4. Ditto
Essay 5. Vagram
Essay 6. Eugene
Essay 7. Slava Sizikov
Essay 8. Batya
Essay 9. Tolik and Vagram
Essay 10. Ilgam and Otari
Essay 11. Petya Kozlov and a pipe
Essay 12. Golubev and Sasha Plokhikh
Essay 13. Serezha Sherbinin
Essay 14. Operative surgery exam
Essay 15. Striptease of Leada Syrkasheva
Essay 17. Pseudo wedding
Essay 18. How I was a trade union organi...
Essay 19. Anatomy
Essay 20. #118 Group
Essay 21. RW
Essay 22. Brothers Romashov
Essay 23. Pharmakology
Essay 24. Sambo
Essay 25. Dimka the Wine-Maker
Essay 26. Brewery
Essay 27. Delicacy
Essay 28. Muster
Essay 29. Festival
Essay 30. Cant wait to get married
Essay 31. Beer at lectures
Essay 32. Examinations
Essay 33. The murder will out
Essay 34. An accident
Essay 35. Vendetta
Essay 36. A lesson to remember for a lif...
Essay 38. A wedding ring
Essay 40. How different all of them are
Essay 41. Product #2
Essay 42. A guitar
Essay 43. A stranger in medicine
Essay 44. Oh, sports - You are life!
Essay 45. Canalis nasolacrimalis
Essay 46. Young Communist League (Komsom...
Essay 47. Unus - one out of five
Essay 48. His Majesty photographer
Essay 49. Three tablets of aminazine
Essay 50. "Nothern Lights"
Essay 51. Gentlemen of luck
Essay 52. Brother-2
Essay 53. Three thanks
Essay 54. Superstitious Beliefs
Essay 56. Satanic Grin
Essay 57. 21 Gurgles
Essay 58. Triplets
Essay 59. Pilau on Issyk Kul
Essay 60. Is speculation business or not...
Essay 61. Bitter Sugar
Essay 63. Cream Of Wheat
Essay 64. Feeling Of Pride
Essay 65. Was It Love?
Essay 67. Examination Paper #13
Essay 68. The Devil of Adventurism
Essay 69. Sketching Characters
Essay 70. An Excursion
Essay 71. Winter examinations
Essay 72. Stierlitz is no match for them...
Essay 73. Inhale through your mouth, ple...
Essay 74. Hitler kaputt!
Essay 75. A second-year student
Essay 76. Mistakes should be paid for!
Essay 77. Four letters
Essay 78. Prince of Imereti
Essay 79. There are too few workers and ...
Essay 80. A pood of salt
Essay 81. A Prankster
Essay 82. Let's Man The Barricades!
Essay 83. Now A Kiss!
Essay 84. Briefs
Essay 85. A Miracle!
Essay 86. A mouse!.. in a hairdo? How ve...
Essay 87. A Born Obstetrician
Essay 88. International Children's Day
Essay 91. Here is the one for you, fasci...
Essay 94. A sight for sore eyes
Essay 96. REAR
Essay 97. And you are a gambler, Paramos...
Essay 98. An Ode to Pilav
Essay 99. Always hungry
Essay 100. Dudes
Essay 114. The night before
Essay 119. An autograph
Essay 130. Déjà vu
Essay 137. Twelve
Essay 141. A password is needed
Essay 142. Home brew
Essay 143. Mind what you say
Essay 144. Experimenters
Essay 145. An autograph
Essay 146. Hydrocele
Essay 147. Clip on the back of the head
Essay 148. Al Qasr
Essay 149. We were optimists...
Essay 150. Despotic and wilful person
Essay 151. With a sickle at the balls
Essay 152. Liquidation
Essay 153. Resonance
Essay 154. Shock therapy
Essay 155. Good luck of Victor Kiss
Essay 156. Herd instinct
Essay 157. Cond'omer
Essay 159. The Gypsy Baron
Essay 160. SI system
Essay 161. Foie gras
Essay 162. Divine disposition
Essay 163. Chizhik-Pyzhik*
Essay 164. Culinary terrorist act
Essay 172. At the world's end
Essay 173. Rupture
After graduation
Essay 37 Whyte chrysanthemums
Essay 55 We Are the Eleventh! So What?
Essay 62 Feinzilberg's Mistake
Essay 90 Betwixt and Between...
Essay 92 Those who are drowning are to ...
Essay 93 People, be happy
Essay 116 Here's a fine how d'ye do!
Essay 131 Feminine logic
Essay 132 Bimbo and, pardon, balls
Essay 133 Forty years later
Essay 134 Product #2 again
Essay 136 Striptease of Fomitch
Essay 138 Love and gastric ulcer
Essay 139 A victim of essays
Essay 140 Sleep!
Essay 158 Help-it's a panic
Essay 165 A Hen
Essay 166 The first vacation
Essay 167 Tails
Essay 168 PEA
Essay 169 Sochi
Essay 170 VOLGA
Essay 171 Muriuk
Essay 174 Bear's disease
Essay 175 An escape
Kitchen talks
Essay 39. A brick on the top of the head
Essay 89. Guriev Porridge (or conversati...
Essay 113. Prosperity of Russia
Essay 135. A Prescription
Beyond the Horizon
Essay 16. Its a small world
Essay 66. Paris, Paris...
Essay 95. Milan is a Lucrative City
Essay 102. A Look and Something
Essay 103. Tango 'Magnolia'
Essay 110. Buddha is smiling
Essay 128. Red Light District
Essay 23. Pharmakology
If one cannot be a medic without knowledge of anatomy, then there cannot be any treatment without knowledge of pharmacology.Pharmacology was born long ago. There were Hippocrat and Galen, who made their contribution to the development of pharmacology like a science. And because of the fact that Hippocrat treated by "indivisible plants", and Galen used chopped or dried plants or decoctions made of them, because of all of that, life of modern students-medics was not less complicated. If in polytechnic institutes they say: "If you passed the study of the strength of materials, you can get married", then in a medical institute one can say the same about pharmacology. The credit should be given to the students, as the majority of them were very serious about the study of pharmacology and could explain, how pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics differed from pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics. And sure enough, they knew what metabolism was and how it differed from absorption. Our group, too, was doing its best to master the ABC of pharmacology. To achieve that, we attended lectures and seminars in "pharma" practically without any skipping. And finally there came the time of the examination.
It happened so that Vagram and I prepared to the exams together. It was quite curios that we lived separately, but our study for the exams was very well organized. We pestered each other with counter questions, which were quite often very unpredictable, and together were looking for the answers. To cut it short, it was convenient for both of us to prepare to the exams together. We already developed certain rituals, and sacredly obeyed them. For example, one of our rituals was that a day before the exam we obligatorily went to sauna, the one near the main building of the institute in Kirovskiy district. As a rule we went to sauna after lunch. We took a steam bath without any hassle as long as we pleased. After the sauna we simply had a walk or visited one of our group mates and had an idle chat. We went to bed early at night and got up early in the morning and started brainstorming of the subject, in which we would have an exam the next day.
It was that way on the eve of the pharmacology exam. Gasanov Ilgam tagged after us to the sauna. We did not object. When we bathed and splashed around to our hearts' content, we decided to have a walk before going home. In Sevastopolskaya street at a grocery store, where we came in to buy cigarettes, we ran into Arkadiy Blyakher. We started jabbering "bla-bla" to Arkadiy, but he reacted in a way "sorry, I am in a hurry". We surprised: "How come, you are in a hurry? We want to have a chat". Arkashka knew about our habits and rituals, he looked intently at us and asked: "Did you really go to the sauna?". We replied: "Yes, we did." And there Arkashka started laughing: "You mixed up the dates, the exam is not the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow." It was late evening already. Blyakher hurried away. Vagram and I stood in shock, it was good that Ilgam was with us, he brought us back to senses and literally dragged us home.
I hardly can describe now, what kind of night it was. Yes, we studied hard, yes, we attended lectures and even made notes, but the stress which Vagram and I created ourselves, was a heavy pressure. In the morning we were among the first who came to the exam.
Docent A.V. Sapozhkov
I got a "good". When at the examination room I noticed that Tatiana was explaining something to Vagram as well. He got a "good" as well.
After the exam I came up to Tatiana and with the words of sincere gratitude presented a chocolate bar "Gold Anchor" to her, which was considered one of the best brands then. Tatiana felt embarrassed, though took the chocolate. As it turned out afterwards she always had remembered that gift. I like this.
In conclusion I want to say that it is great to obey the rituals, but the students' mutual assistance is the major basis!
july 14, 2011
© Copyright: Oleg Syedyshev, 2012
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