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Chronicles of Alma Mater in April and Other Phystech Stories

"I am a student, I am glad I am a student. Only two month ago I was a schoolboy, Mathematics and Physics were always of interest to me.That's why I am here. " From Phystech 1 year English textbook. As a result of a natural process of clutter accumulation in my brain my stories are loosing colors and details and some of them disappeared all together. The only way to preserve some of those silly, yet dear memories is to put them in writing. First few big words: Back in the old country, the proud name of Phystech had stood for the Excellency in physics and math. It shaped the minds of several generations of Russian scientists. In simple words, our school kicked ass. This Excellency, as all good things in life, did not come for free. It was not the difficult exams or the rats in our dorm showers or god-awful food in the campus cafeteria. We had very few women. They say that a sum of looks and smarts form a constant. In my year among 90 or so, borderline genius guys