ausare | Hufflepuff for a day / Video Monday 27

卒業。
そつぎょう。
Sotsugyou.
Graduation.
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Have officially graduated from university.

So these are the fruits of two years of reduced-and-condensed sleep, catching up on two hours of sleep every school day on the bus, countless essays, too many presentations for my liking, getting over my hatred and fear of Apple Macintoshes, shouting abuse at slow computers, and talking bad about incompetent lecturers behind their backs and on their evaluation surveys (and one small revolution YAY).

A certificate and an official transcript (yay for credits and distinctions!).

But beyond those that are tangible, and of course the knowledge and skill of my academic field, it's the friends I've made, comrades in our battle against deadlines and sleepy-ness, learning how to be me, letting myself be me, having friends that enable my various nerd/geek areas, who give me attention even though they might not be interested in whatever I was flailing about, and getting to do things and things that I actually like and with people who like the same things I do. It's the learning to be less nervous about presentations. It's the learning how to develop my own thoughts and finding my own way of analysing the world and learning that how I think can be different but it doesn't make it wrong.

Other than missing friends (because I am under no illusions that with everyone moving onto the next stage in life, we will have less time to meet up and catch up), I miss that process of learning things. No matter how we (I) bitch about it, and regardless of how nerdy it sounds, I'm going to miss learning, be it academically, or about myself.

Okay, moving on from all that angst. We were Hufflepuffs for (half) a day because our course's colour is bright yellow and the graduation robe is black, so, HUFFLEPUFF COLOURS! Although I'd prefer any of the other three houses's colour [/nerd]. I keep fighting the compulsion to make the robe billow (like Snape) or pulling a pen out to use as a wand. Don't judge me. You'd want to do that too. And all my coursemates were thinking along the same line too.

With all the running around to take photographs, helping people take photographs, gathering people to take group photographs, by the time I could stop to take a bite of whatever was catered, the staff were already starting to pack the food away. And in the time that I took to turn and pick up a plate, every last friggin bit of food was cleared away. WHAT THE EFF? There was like, half of the food left! At least keep those there until the people from the morning session left! UGH. I was super hungry. So were a few other friends who didn't get to eat much so we left and walked down to Coffee Club.

I'm tired so I'll just leave pictures of our dessert.

Mud pie.

Came and gone. Because we are hungry hungry ~~hippos~~ graduates.

VIDEO MONDAY 27

[Direct link to the video]

I don't have any phone that can support this game, and so I don't have this game. But I kinda get the story behind this and LOL. This is just full of lulz.

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以上、Chii です。