Student's bench

The construction of the Student Monument was initiated by Jarosław Włodarczyk and the academic magazine "Auditorium" in 1993. The monument was unveiled ten years later.

On May 25, 2001, a casting took place in the Small Courtyard of the University of Warsaw at Krakowskie Przedmieście, where students volunteered to have their faces serve as models for the bronze student statue. Among 22 candidates, the jury selected ten individuals. One of them was Maciej Robak, a fourth-year student of Interfaculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Warsaw. His face was chosen in a poll conducted by Gazeta Wyborcza. Initially, the monument was temporarily displayed in the Main Hall of the Warsaw University of Technology, and finally, on January 15, 2003, it was unveiled on the grounds of the central campus, at the entrance to the former building of the University of Warsaw Library.

The sculpture depicts a student sitting on a bench, with books lying beside him (one of them has a pull-out page) and a copy of "Auditorium." The student is dressed in a T-shirt, a blazer, and tight pants, with a hole in his shoe. To read the text placed under the sole, one needs to use a mirror. Latin inscriptions are placed on the bench, and plaques with the names of the monument's sponsors are embedded around it. The project was supported by student councils from Warsaw universities, as well as the Association of Students BEST Warsaw and the AISEC Association. To raise funds for the construction, bricks were sold for 5 PLN and 20 PLN starting from January 1994.