Yesterday's schoolchildren, crossing the threshold of an educational institution, fall into a special fraternity. But the entrance there is open only to those who have honorably withstood initiation into students. What it is? How is it going? Who is conducting it and how to prepare for the upcoming event?
Naive freshmen often believe that the speech of the rector and the dean, who pronounce the words "Well, you are accepted into our big friendly family" or something like that, is the initiation into students. No matter how! The main “initiate” is being prepared by senior students with fiction and not without a subtle emphasis. Why are there even false signs on the doors, forcing new students to run along the corridors back and forth or move from building to building in search of their audience.
What to expect?
The initiation script usually includes a concert, a competitive program and a disco. Competitions are the main component of the program of the day.
Fate of the stream
This is something like fortune telling. From the crowd of newcomers choose one guy and one girl. The girl is planted in one of the three chairs, on the remaining they put a book and a glass of beer, under which a uniform cap is placed. The guy is blindfolded, untwisted to the applause of the audience and sent to determine the fate of the stream. Good comrades suggest where to go to the main character, and all indicate a different direction. Chairs change their location. The hall is full of confusion. As a result, the young student must still feel for one of the chairs. If it is a chair with a book, it means that new freshmen will study hard, not being distracted by anything. Beer represents a vibrant student life full of entertainment, and a cap under the mug hints at the outcome of such a pastime. A girl is an active personal life, which also distracts from study. When the ritual is completed, a student can act as a leader, and a guy with a swaddled doll in his hands is put on a chair, which means symbolic "I do not want to study, but want to get married."
Granite science
This contest has a deeply symbolic meaning, and its passage is not a very pleasant thing. But what a pleasure you will experience when looking at those who are still ahead. What is this “everything”? Initiation to freshmen occurs through the victory over a walnut (for example), which must be bitten with teeth without the use of additional devices. And as a bonus, caring senior students will offer you a glass of salty and pepper tea or cookies generously sprinkled with mustard. Who will eat, drink and spit?
Colorful fun
A few senior students fill up water guns or ordinary plastic bottles with holes in their caps with paint and prey on freshmen to spray them as much as possible. The paint can be either black (the darkness in the heads that “teachings of the light” will disperse), or white (the color of a clear and immaculate mind), as well as other colors, under which a little logical reasoning is given.
What to do?
The main problem of yesterday’s “enrollment” is the solution to the question: “How to survive initiation into students?”. There are several answers.
1. Gather as much information as possible: look for this topic in youth forums, ask older students or teachers you know, listen to the conversations of those who went through the “dedicate” a year ago. Surely this topic is discussed in the corridors, show all your attention, and useful information will find you.
2. Dress so that it is not a pity to throw away clothes. Okay, if a water bomb lands on your head, and if it rains from paint? Leave expensive phones and tablets at home, put on glasses easier.
3. Treat what is happening as entertainment. No need to be offended and calculate the damage, in the end, no one wants you to harm, everyone just wants to have fun and entertain freshmen caught from the habit of non-habit. Tests, including initiation into students, are always a test of character, and by its results you will either make many friends or, on the contrary, most classmates will avoid you. Remember - an adequate reaction to jokes and practical jokes is a chance to prove yourself in a profitable way.
4. A rare initiation into students takes place without alcohol consumption. If you do not drink, this will undoubtedly distinguish you from the general student body, and many will want to check the strength of such a position. So, if you are already responding to the offer to “wave” with refusal, then argue your position and don’t give it up so as not to look like a “crap” that simply gets its price. Nobody then wants to communicate with such people, but many people like to be self-confident, able to defend their own opinions.
5. Drag on the mustache, remember everything that happens during the “dedicated”, because after a few years you will have to do the same in relation to new applicants.