At Drexel University where I completed my Bachelor's studies, class registrations would be quite frustrating specially towards the end of my degree. I almost always had this tough choice to make in my final years. On the one side, I could take a day class, with the 3-4 credit hour class split into two days - with a half decent professor (where I learn something) who would be an absolute grading Nazi. Or, I could take the same course which ran one evening per week (usually 6-9pm) - with terrible and boring professors who were generally generous graders.
But now at ANU where I am doing my Post-grad studies, I usually don't have a choice. I seldom miss the choice I had at Drexel University, and when I do, the only thing I miss are the shorter lectures! It's usually just one professor who has designed a wonderful course and most professors are brilliant teachers. But even with good professors, there are those days when I get little or no sleep on the previous day and I then have a survive a 5-8pm lecture the next day. This last happened on March 4th when I had to sit through a very interesting class (and professor), but the tiresome was getting to me and I was becoming restless and itching to leave. The real me began to take over. The me who is generally goofy, playful, figity, distracted, not studious and waiting for the next opportunity to stay away from the books!
My laptop ran out of battery and so I moved to my next distraction. I pulled out my iPhone and began playing around with it. I then turned on the camera and took a picture that I will always remember for several reasons. I believe I have changed my ways during my post-grad studies. The new frame of mind that I have had during my studies here at ANU has been able to suppress what I have always called the real me.
The Quintessential Post-grad Me
My friend coined the perfect name for this photograph and I couldn't agree more with the name given by her. The only item missing in this photograph is my laptop from which I am comfortably writing this blog :) I will be completing my degree in about 9 months (hopefully) and as much as I can't wait to graduate, I think I will miss college life.
Maybe this tought is premature, but I do believe I'll miss the absolute freedom to do anything I want! I know I'll miss random late-nighters and sleepless nights followed by early morning lattes and flat whites or the third can of an energy drink. I'll miss the freedom to enjoy absolute nothingness. I won't be able skip classes soon or have the choice to sip on a nice hot coffee in class. Procastination will never be the same again and I won't have the project work or exam deadline tension.
So I take a vow to enjoy the rest of my college life as much as I can right now, because as much as I will miss it, I don't intend to study any further!
