SO with the rush that comes at the end of all things, I realize how much I still have to sort my Amherst life before I leave for five months to have mind opening adventures in Spain and greater Europe.

But as always, if things can go wrong, they most certainly will, as demosntrated by the sudden implosion of things!

LET’S BEGIN WITH A RETROSPECTIVE, SHALL WE?

1) Some very good friends who I care deeply about are leaving or have left before me. THIS MAKES ME SAD D: While it is selfish to be the last one to depart, I always find it easier to be the one staying and wishing well than the one leaving and saying goodbye.

2) My research project combusted and fizzled really quickly. Nothing that I can’t start up again, but I have to wait until I return on January 16th before I can see this project through to its completion. I still have to blog about this, and since I’ll be indesigning while I’m at home, I may as well have a post later with diagrams that explains my project and acts as a sort of dilution of what I am doing.
2b) Williamson is gone this week so all I’ve done in lab is organize my notes and start something which failed way fast and I was like OKAY not trying again so as to not waste my own time. Thus, begins our perpetual correspondence as I make my poster at home.

3) Storage still sucks X_x Campus Police unknowingly let me put in my giant fridge-box (you know, the one that comes with your fridge, and mine being 4.4 cubic liters, this box has no bottom making it an awesome bucket of storage good-ness 8D) into Cohan storage which would soon be discarded. THUS, my boxes for my mirror and my fan and my fridge and I have no idea what else in there got tossed. However, seven phone calls later, I will be recompensed with packing boxes tomorrow. YAY I’ll have until 2 PM to pack tomorrow so that’s a time cruncher. Yar.

4. The EMT written exam today was taken and failed by a single point. I even tallied the number of ambiguous questions I guessed on and totalled them to 33, and considering that you can get 30 wrong and pass, I assumed it was a safe bet after going back and second guessing myself as I reviewed.
I WAS WRONG. D:
I even woke up at 5 AM to study extra for it, thanks to Jessica Cook’s help. AND YET
ARGH.

5.  As I leave the school there will be far too many changes in the dynamic here. Lab techs that are highly valued, friends, etc. that are all going to be gone to some extent, either perpetually or just become super rare. To not share those last moments with them properly is upsetting :<

6. And new friends I have made here who I am going to be missing for a semester or more, thanks to poor synching of going-abroad times and such, I WILL BE SAD ABOUT THAT TOO.

All in all, it’s a melancholic end to the summer. Frustrating too.

However, as I once read,

“The world keeps turning, so roll with it.”

Not much I can do now then, is there?

Let’s see this through to the end.

See you in January?