Top 10 interesting facts about the students

Jan 25 - Student Day. In honor of this holiday we are discussing the most interesting facts about the students and the universities of the world.




1. Japanese students take with them to the exam chocolate and put it in front of the teacher during the response. It is believed that chocolate brings good luck.

2. In the same university in the city of Nantes has a special room for sleeping. "Sleepy room" open to students are not sleeping on the pairs. Now anyone can go there and relax, when he wants.

3. Frankenstein - this is not the name of a terrible monster. Writer Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" is a monster called the "monster", as Victor Frankenstein in the product name of a young student-scientist.

4. entrants we used to call those who are planning to enter the university. In fact, the word translated as "go" and also refers to graduate. In most countries, this word has retained its "correct" value.

5. 200 years ago in Russia in the nineteenth century, students of restaurants and taverns wrote on their back address. This point is even described in the work of AP Chekhov.

6. A strange tradition of the "primeval scream" is popular in many foreign universities. The student can go out and publish a long wild cry from 5 to 10 minutes. It is believed that this exercise helps to relieve stress during the session.> 7. The word "student" was first used by the Roman poet Ovid. Translated from the Latin "student" - a person who works hard and diligently engaged.

8. The longest crib in the world - 600 m. The students spent 16 hours on its production.

9. The most succinct letter of recommendation from the university received the mathematician John Nash, the prototype of the hero of the film "A Beautiful Mind." It read: "This man is genius!

10. The most popular superstition relating to the examination: not wash before the exam, ask to have you cursed, put the coin in the boots.

Tell me the funniest story that happened to you during the exam!