Hand in day - and those strange feelings after that

I was meant to write this blog on Wednesday after I handed in my dissertation, which I had been working on for the whole summer. Yet, I have been carried away by the excitement, emptiness and all sorts of strange unnamed feelings that I decided to write it up today, the day in my original plan when I would have handed it in.

The binding didn't take long. In fact, I was the only customer and it literally took me 2 minutes to have it bound. I walked down from the Forum towards my office to collect the DVD and submit onto Turnitin with a massive grin. It felt like everything was over. Years of work, or rather more precisely, weeks of work would be handed in a few minutes for better or worse.

I didn't have a supervisor for this dissertation. It has not been proofread by any of the senior staff, which is the same for everyone in the course this year. I'd had absolutely no idea how I did it, but I did it and so it felt incredible, but at the same time, it felt strange.

I now know, I wouldn't have to worry about what to write tomorrow or what models I need to tweak the next day. I wouldn't stay in the office until late because there is nothing to be there for, that is if I still have the office. It seems like I am the last accounting scholar to have a proper place, and next year they don't even have an office!

So that's that. My holiday finally started yesterday with a short day trip to Torquay to see the penguins and other funny/friendly creatures. And now, Welcome Team is just around the corner, my last welcome team that is! :(

Side note: yesterday was the first time I am not in Vietnam for my grand-dad's memorial... :)

Goodbyes

It has been a while since graduation week, or in other words - goodbye week. I know goodbye is always hard but honestly I haven't felt much from goodbyes because I tend to be the one to leave.

Yet, this year is rather different. Everything is coming to an end, staff are changing jobs, leaving for maternity, friends are finishing and heading else where. And I'm still here. It's not that my life is not progressing to any different state or anything like that; I do love my job and what I have been doing over here except for the dissertation I "have to" submit soon. It's just that I am the one to stay and see people leaving. I have to admit, it's not pleasant.

Though, on another note, goodbyes are inevitable. However, there are goodbyes and see you soon, yet there are also goodbyes and that's goodbye. :)