Good buy, Moscow State University!

Well, a month more and I won't be even able to enter the main building of Moscow State University because my student ID will be expired. Because my student time is over and it creates mixed feelings. They were great 5 years of my life, the years of growing up, of ups and downs, of enthusiasms and disappointments, of learning and working. Probably, the most intense and eventful period of my life. Tonight looking back at a 17 years old girl carrying a heavy and inconvenient desktop computer to the other side of Moscow because she isn't allowed to keep stuff in a dorm for the summer and thinking that one day she'll make enough money to NEVER carry heavy things again. The girl who found out on her 2nd day in Moscow that tears are useless just because they don't change anything and of you don't figure your problem out by yourself nobody is gonna do it for you. The girl who promised herself to get a good job enough to buy food in a decent supermarket and not in a cheap one which pretty far from her home so she had to carry these heavy bags on a long distance and to eat tasteless fruits. A girl who was working as a leader in a summer children camp to go to the sea for free. A girl who was looking for any opportunities to grow, to learn, to get the experience, to meet new people, to have a cultural life in the "capital of opportunities". If try to list all jobs I've had for those 5 years it'll be pretty diverse and long. So,
1) writing essays about some literary works for students of other university (they were busy adults who didn't want to write these essays by themseves and were making enough money to hire a student to do it for them)
2) finished courses for touristic guides and worked as a guide in Moscow and escort-guide to other cities and touristic places
3) an individual tutor for Russian language and English language (mostly with kids)
4) a teacher of Russian grammar for school students at weekend courses
5) an instructor for teambuilding
6) a presenter for corporate events
7) a manager in a travel agency
8) a leader in a summer camp
9) a PR (public relations) assistant in the electric company
10) an assistant in PR agency
11) a journatlist
12) an editor of a corporate newspaper
13) an instructor of Russian for foreign volonteers
14) a language assistant in an American college
15) a coach of efficient negotiations (worked my own training out and conducted it several times)

And here I am now: a girl who makes enough money to buy decent food in a nearest supermarket, to buy a decent and trendy clothes, to choose carefully where to work and what to do (and how much I'd like to make there), to pay for a dorm for summer to have the opportunity to leave my stuff in the room. A girl who has couple of great friends and don't need more because she appreciates few deep relations instead of tons of accidental acquaintances. A girl who has got a laptop and a smartphone bought by herself. A girl who could read what she likes and could easily watch movies in several different languages. A girl who travels a lot and prepares her trips herself. A girl who chooses only good plays and theaters and prefers reading at home to a crazy party in a bar. "Old" me.

So today it came to my mind that from now on (as I'm graduating) I won't do these things any more:
- drink an instant coffee (it's really disgusting but easy to make when you don't have any desire to go to the common kitchen)

- look at planes leaving the nearest airport and dream of flying to other place

- try to be at the dorm building before 2 am (it's closed from 2 am to 5 am)

- listen to the door clapping to get to the bathroom (one bathroom for 10 girls)

- sleep in the middle of the day among tons of sheets for exam scattered on the bed

- put colored stickers on my trots to get the right one quickly during the exam

- buy bars chocolate at university because you don’t have time for lunch

- look at that view (from my 9th floor):

- look for stamps on the bedsheets and  pillowcase to change for a clean one (an important rule: if you don't want to pay for "stolen" sheet you should check a BLUE stamp each time you get a clean set - once in 10 days) - it's a captivating game because usually those stamps are almost obliterated

- draw flowers or abstract objects on the margins of my notebook because the lecture is super boring or because it makes me pondering better

- save all my classmates who aren't ready for a class by answering most of the prof's questions

- read the abstracts of classical Russian and foreign literature just because it's impossible to read 150 books for the exam in few months 

- hear "come to me, freebie!" every exams period at midnight from several windows of a dorm (students believe that brings them luck for exams)

- to decode these misterious Old Slavonic texts:

- listen to Beatles songs and to stories about Scotland every English class

- mechanically imagine the syntactical formula of each sentence you hear

Thank you, university and my student life. Welcome to a new part!