Today Is The Last Day

Today was my last assessed act at Imperial College. The viva to my final year project. After much agonising on the possible pain that lay before me, I dragged myself into college sweating slightly from wearing smart clothes in hot weather, scribbled myself some notes in the 20 mins I had left to go over my presentation, took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

35 mins later I left in some disbelief. It was over. What did I do? Well I called my up my friend to share the joy (since there was no one around) and logged into facebook of course :P

I couldn't decide what to do. I ended up clearing out my locker - full of bottles of Tanzania water, (EWB stuff). I then decided to eat at the MDH one last time, but they had some event on so I had to sit in the scorching heat outside! Grrr. Oh well. I bought MDH food anyway, no way in hell was I commemorating with a bloody panini or a jacket potato. I don't think I can eat another one without being reminded of bad coursework times!

I then went home, sweating more now as the weather creeped towards 28C, ripped all my clothes off as soon as I got to my room and swapped for the first piece of summer clothing I saw. Sitting in my polka dot dress among my baby peas and baby beans made me very happy. My peas are growing pods, I am quite excited. But my beans have not so much as flowered. I repotted my marigolds (which smells divine when about to flower) and loaded the fisheye camera I got for my birthday and took some random shots of the stadium. Haven't used analogue cameras for a VERY long time, it was quite disappointing not to be able to see the results instantly. I'm sure it would be worth it when I get the film developed :)

I spent the rest of the afternoon agonising over the end of my student discount privelages, watching the England game, eating foods and cooking nasi ayam (chicken rice). Well being told how to cook it, for I am a terrible terrible cook in the sense that I never want to.

So anyway, today is the last day of student life. I think T.S. Eliot pretty sums up very well how it has been like to be at Imperial. Soul sucking and empty at times, and ending without a bang, but a whimper.

I think it is time to direct you to where I will be posting from now on. It's just like how a series has different volumes. I need to type a new one. The next few months I anticipate to be full of uncertainty, and it might be interesting to follow me for the ride?

In case I do not end up updating here again, I will be found as of tomorrow at http://eskimimii.wordpress.com (note double i at the end)

Farewell, Distance, it's been amazing.