The present study aims to analyze the lives experiences of contemporary university students of PUC-Rio from community pre-university preparatory courses. Since 1994, through the project Bolsa de Ação Social, this university promotes the graduation of the students from this courses providing full scholarship due to their difficulty to finance their own study. This project allows the formation of a co- living scenario that stirs different and confronting lifetime histories leading to changes in values and paradigms concepts. This investigation was enrolled through individual interviews with students of different knowledge areas with the history above, and from itinerant- observation. This group of students was selected due to the belief that the political and pedagogical proposals of their courses promotes reevaluation of the concepts and of the place occupied by these students front the world. Important authors such as Michel de Certeau and Mikhail Bakhtin were the basis for the development of research and analysis of data obtained. In an environment structured according to a specific group of students profile, these foreign students creates pathways and creatively occupies places with particular means. Collective tactics (and/or individual), are utilized to face obstacles of the academic quotidian. Ether way they corroborate old paradigms and concepts or are surprised and remodel them. Students affect and are self affected by this new environment in which new identities and subjectivities process are constructed.