Digital Wanderer | Student Life

Student Life - The Dorm

2004-12-31

Our life in the dorm

A young guy in a sports jacket is holding a peeled banana, sitting at a computer desk in a room with newspaper-covered walls. Behind him is a window overlooking a courtyard with large puddles and multi-story buildings.

Hungry anthropods are all equal, for them a banana is good food

This is citizen Andrei Ageev, a slacker and don't-give-a-damn kinda guy, pure walking emotion. Munching on a banana.

A fair-haired man with a short haircut and a smile on his face stands looking right into the camera. He's wearing a blue-grey striped zip-up jacket, and a slightly cluttered room interior is visible behind him.

What a smiley young man

A young man with fair hair and blue eyes, with slight stubble, stands indoors wearing a dark blue and dark green sports jacket with white stripes on the sleeves.

Check out the pose

A young man in a blue-grey sports jacket and jeans sits by an old window, looking up and away at the typical apartment buildings outside.

Could put him straight on a glossy magazine cover

An Eden-style advertising poster depicts a half-naked man and woman in a tropical forest with a waterfall, where the woman is offering the man a small nest. At the bottom of the poster, four packages of 'Rīgas miesnieks' pâté are shown with the slogan 'Grēks nenogaršot!' (A sin not to taste!).

Riga Miesnieks ad. Does everyone know Latvian?

A young man with short light-brown hair in a plaid green-blue fleece jacket sits on a chair in a dorm-like room, holding a piece of pastry in his hand.

Citizen Mosalsky, as is well known, lives in the same room with me

. . . and therefore is munching on a cheburek.

. . . continues munching

A smiling young man with a short haircut in a green plaid jacket sits in a simple room, holding a piece of bread in his hand. In the background, two beds and a desk with a keyboard are visible.

And now Andrei is demonstrating the classic retard smile for us

A smiling young man in a blue polo shirt stands in a simple kitchen, holding a box of oatmeal flakes above his head. On the table in front of him are milk and a cup, and an autumn landscape with apartment buildings is visible out the window.

And this is how we make oatmeal

Two young men stand in a dimly lit hallway, arms around each other's shoulders. One is in a white long-sleeve, the other in a blue-grey t-shirt with a football print; both are looking at the camera.

Drunks

On the left is Zhur, meaning Seryoga Zhuromsky. Oddly enough, the comrades were sober. Scary to think what they're like when they get wasted!

Three young men in a home setting. Two of them are looking at the camera: one in a beige hoodie, the other in a red sweater; the third, wearing a cap, is focused on a computer game displayed on a CRT monitor.

Neighbors

And these are the real drunks, except they are also sober right now. Did they collude or something?

A top-down view of bare feet in worn plaid slippers and blue jeans, standing on an old tiled floor.

And here are my feet in the morning

A top-down view of the floor showing several pairs of feet in different footwear (sandals, slippers) against two types of flooring: light linoleum and a worn reddish one with stains. Near the feet are a wooden chair, a computer tower, a white bucket with clothes, and a large plastic bottle.

Composition "Three pairs of slippers on feet"

Mess in a room with a multitude of things, dishes, and electronics placed on desks and a small fridge. Among the items are dirty plates, an enamel pot in a frying pan, an electric kettle, headphones, and a computer tower.

Mess

It's by no means always such chaos in our room. Once a month I gather the strength to tidy up, and even wash the floor.

A cluttered room interior with a wooden chair in the foreground, a window with red curtains, desks piled with kitchen utensils and an old computer, plus tangles of wires and a puddle on the floor.

And the nightmare in the photo is a special one, because renovations are underway

A close-up of a heavily overexposed and blurry face of a person with pale skin and bright highlights in half-closed eyes. A slight smile can be guessed on the face.

And this is Vityok, ascended to heaven alive

For outstanding achievements in absorbing alcoholic beverages and conquering unapproachable chicks, Vityok was granted the rank of angel - look how he glows.

A young man in a dark green t-shirt looks over his left shoulder, smiling broadly at the camera, against a wall covered with light tiles.

This is me

Uhhhh I'm kinda not what you thought . . . This is how Mosalsky takes photos, hmhmmm. No smoke without fire, hmmmm?

A close-up of the face of a smiling man in dark-framed glasses, looking straight into the camera from a short distance.

Crazy computer geek

Sometimes I even scare myself . . .

A young woman with short fair hair and a man in glasses stand side by side; the man has his hand on her shoulder and is slightly smiling. In the background, an interior with yellowish walls and a calendar for the Latvian mobile operator LMT are visible.

This is Lyudochka

I won't show the rest of the girls, they are shy and afraid for their privacy.

A young man with his eyes closed, with a thickly hairy chest and belly, stands shirtless in front of red curtains; a window and a stained ceiling are visible in the background.

It's hard getting up in the morning . . .

A man in a dark green knitted sweater and black pants stands with his arms crossed in a room. In the background, red curtains, a computer desk, and beds are visible.

But then, when you do get up, WHOA!

A clear plastic water bottle closed with a bright blue ribbed cap. The bottle is about half full, with visible small air bubbles, against a blurry dark background.

Wonderful drinking water "Kekavas avots"

I consume this kind, Mosalsky drinks boiled tap water. He used to buy it too, but then he stopped tasting the difference. He has proletarian tastes in general, meaning macaroni, pop music, and the cheapest sausage that tastes like salt.

Two large clear plastic water bottles with blue caps, handles, and blue labels reading 'RASA'.

"Rasa" water, in five-liter bottles.

This one is also okay, and besides, you can buy it less often because the volume is larger.

Two young men pose in a lit hallway. One is in a red jacket over a beige sweater, the other in a black striped jacket over grey; both are looking at the camera with slightly narrowed eyes against two-tone walls and closed doors.

Zhura and Edya

I knew that black and Indian guys lived in our dorm, but for some reason I hadn't heard about Chinese guys. All the greater was the shock during a personal encounter!