Digital Wanderer | Student Life

Student Life - Classmates

2004-12-31

Ordinary people

A young man with a hairband sitting in the lotus position on a bed and intently reading an open notebook lying on a pillow in front of him.

"The Reading Buddha"

Kotov prepping for an exam in ???

A young man stands on the promenade, leaning on the railing, with Riga, the Daugava River, and two tall church spires under a cloudy sky in the background.

Arturik Razgulyaev on the bank of the Daugava

This is the road from the RTU building on Meža Street, where we spend most of our time, to the building on Kaļķu Street, where the economists spend most of theirs.

A young man in a dark jacket standing by a cast-iron promenade fence against the backdrop of the Daugava River. On the other bank, a panorama of Riga is visible with the towers of the Riga Dome Cathedral and St. Peter's Church, as well as a bridge under a blue sky with clouds.

Ainars Svirkovics on the bank of the Daugava

Ainars and Arturik study at LDI, which is the most serious institute of the RTU Computer Science Faculty, and they deserve respect for this fact alone. We picked our subjects together, and now they, along with me, are forced to study C# and Java programming.My condolences!

A young man with a short haircut sitting, holding an acoustic guitar, and looking at the camera against a wall with patterned wallpaper, a shelf, and a calendar.

Ainars with a guitar

I don't remember if Ainars can play the guitar, but he sure knows how to hold one - you can tell from the photo.

Shurik Maksimov close-up

Shurik and I were planning to go to Great Britain for agricultural work, but we never got around to it because we couldn't pass our exams in time.This year(2004) Shurik is again trying to talk me into going to serve the bourgeoisie and rake in some serious dough, but I lost the desire a long time ago.

It turns out that Sashka and I knew each other when we were little, and he brought me a creepy black-and-white photo, and then told stories about how I was already weird back then.

He, Kotov, and I also did a project for the "Elektroinstruments" plant, which we later successfully presented at an RTU scientific conference.

Sashka is a bit cocky and charming, and also has a pretty good category(a B, I think?) in dancing, much like Kotov and Dubovsky. He always manages to sweet-talk a prof into giving him a high grade, even though the prof later realizes they hadn't really planned to. I think one of the reasons is that he reads books, so he's pretty sharp in the humanities, and he has a silver tongue, much like myself.

Two young men in a room with floral curtains. One is sitting at a desk with a computer and looking at the viewer, the other is lying on a bed in the background and smiling.

Edya(Edgar) and Dimon

Edgar and Dimon are typical Pervomayka* slackers.They got out of the habit of doing anything back in high school, which is their main problem. Their brains are perfectly fine, but eternal laziness ruins people completely.(Plus alcohol, tobacco, and www.combats.ru ). On the other hand, they are decent guys, not some kind of scumbags.

*Pervomayka - the neighborhood in Daugavpils where I come from, it has a bad reputation due to its high crime rate.

A group photo of five young men arranged in a pyramid against a curtain with columns and flowers. One of the guys in the top row is making a funny face, the rest are smiling.

A tight-knit crew

Seven young men posing for a photo in a cramped room. Two are standing in the back, hugging, while the other five are gathered around two desks with old computers and food.

An even bigger crew

Three young men posing in a long dorm hallway. One of them in glasses is smiling, the one standing next to him is holding up a hand with a black wire, and the guy in the foreground is comically squinting at the camera.

The fifth-floor hallway after the fire and before renovations