For two weeks, Vistula students tried to get to the dean’s office to renew their student IDs, to get some documents, or just to find out some information that can only be obtained there. Initially, in the first days, people came at the usual time in the afternoon; for example, after or before the beginning of the lesson, they saw a huge group of people near the ticket machine and left because they realized that with so many people, they would not have time to get there because the dean’s office usually works until 16:00. From the next day on, students started to come earlier and earlier to get a ticket, but they didn’t know how early they had to come to get there (later, it turned out that the first 50–60 people get there, and then the machine starts issuing one ticket at an interval of 20–30 minutes).
Further people started to come 1-2 hours before the opening of the dean’s office to have time to occupy one of the two queues that were on the first and second floors. In parallel with standing in line, people started to find new acquaintances because when you stand next to the same person for several hours and you have a common interest at the moment—to get to the dean’s office—you start to think of ways to get there together and communicate at the same time. So people thought of taking tickets in Polish (mostly the whole queue was for English language training) because there were a maximum of 5–10 people in the queue, but after they entered the dean’s office, there was disappointment because people working in the dean’s office didn’t have a chance to get to the dean’s office.
After a few days, students managed to fulfill their wish, as the number of students in the queue decreased and it was easier to get there.
Ihor Kotsiuk