I had hoped to have blogged that on time yesterday, but I have no internet connection at home for the next few days, so I'm writing this in the library while I wait out the next four hours until my next class. There's currently a golf tournament going on in my neighbourhood, and the make-shift media centre that has propped itself up a couplve doors down the road is completely leeching off my (& I'm sure a few other houses') internet. Sure, I get free tickets to the tournament, but I treasure my connection to the cyber world much more than watching people hit golf balls all around the course for two days. & this internet blackout just so happens to be during the week I was all geared up to start working on my assignments too! ): So today since I'm already on campus, I thought; instead of heading home for the six-hour break between my classes, I might as well start on my Economy & Society essay that's due in a month's time. It's one of my shortest essays this semester (it's only a thousand words) so it wouldn't hurt if I could finish it by the weekend & hand it in next week. It would be one less thing to worry about once I get started on my research proposal, of which, by the way, has finally been given a proper title - The Influence of Role Models (in this case, celebrities) in Consumer Judgement & Decision Making Among College Students. A mouthful, isn't it? Leave it to me to come up with a ridiculously complicated name for a simple research topic.
As I sit in my little cubicle in the middle of the library, I look around and see no familiar faces - something that I'm definitely not used to - and it's quite unnerving. The people around me are mostly foundation students & first years, and they remind me of how little time I have left in this university. It a few months, I will be graduating (gasp!), leaving behind what has been my second home for the past four years of my life. Despite my initial doubts about coming to UNMC, I'm very glad that I did end up here. Who knows how different I would be if I had gone somewhere else? What my life would have been like? If I would ever come across the same type of people that I've grown to care about through the years? Would I ever have the guts to do the things I did here anywhere else? I never thought I would have said this four years ago, but I really will miss this place when I leave. I'll miss the fountain in the plaza and the countless times we throw people (and have been thrown) in for our birthdays. I'll miss being tucked away in my little corner in the library as I study for hours the week before the exams. I'll miss the long, scenic drive to campus every morning, in awe at the sight of the mountains surrounding the university shrouded in mist. I'll miss the spontaneous road trips to Sepang and Genting when we were bored and had nothing else to do. I'll miss playing rounds of Monopoly Deal at the back of the lecture theatre during a class, and passing out bags of chips & candy just for fun. I'll miss dropping into the lecturers' office just to have a chat and catch up. I'll miss staying over for the night at Ariza's after performing with THREE just because we want to, and not necessarily have to. A part of me is a little sad at the thought, but another part is anxious to see where God is planning to take me once all this is over.
And there I go, being all sentimental & emotional again, even when I'm in the middle of the library, for heaven's sake!
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