Genya dressed up
Genya is dressed up because professors here like it when students get dressed up on exam days. Most of his final exams work like so: each student picks a question out of a hat then gets a certain amount of time to prepare an answer. After his time is up he's called up to the professor's desk and given an oral examination on that question. Almost everyone, and most certainly Genya, prepare little index cards with all sorts of information on them and shove them in their pockets on exam days to use when preparing their oral answer. This is not at all legal but apparently everyone cheats here and when I suggested that maybe someone could give away a cheater to the professor he said that would never happen. When I told him that some universities in the US work on an honor system in which students are expected to tell on each other he really thought I was kidding with him. He could not fathom how such a system might actually work. Another, I think related, social practice here is that drivers on highways are expected to flash their lights to warn oncoming traffic when they see a cop car hiding out behind a curve. I guess you could call it brotherly love.

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We do the flashing lights thing in Canada too...
Yup, I single-handedly introduced the flash-your-hibeams system in wellesley... imagine this: it caught on very fast!
that was shifrin btw
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