#graduationcountdown

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I thought I'd try to blog my last few months of uni so... here it goes

-58 days to graduation (hopefully)

I worked a bit more on my portfolio ahead of tomorrow's revision, and planned my design instagram feed (?). I'm not completely satisfied with it, but there's still time to work on it before the exam, and I'm going to talk about it with my professor tomorrow. Also got an headache, obv :(

Shoutout to my piglet Paglia for keeping me company

🎵 song of the day: Dover Beach by Baby Queen 🍵 tea of the day: English Breakfast

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-55 days to graduation (hopefully)

Today I attended the last ever lecture for my degree. I'd like to say that it was bittersweet and emotional, but I was super sleepy and I couldn't wait to get home :')

🍵 Tea of the day: home made iced tea (black tea with lemon cooled down)

🎵 Song of the day: Hope by Stefan (yes, I'm still obsessed with ESC songs lol)

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-2 day to graduation

I am done with university! I didn't realize how tired I was until I came home after the thesis discussion, sat on the sofa and almost istantly fell asleep. Whew.

To be honest, I'm not 100% satisfied with how the thesis went; there were so many things I wish I could have done differently, many of them happened in the last months, but a few were today, and they hurt. But I have now brushed off that ugly feeling and I'm ready to move on. I am grateful for this experience, but I won't let it define me more than I need.

🍵 Tea of the day: Masala Chai

🎵 Song of the day: Rat A Tat by Fall Out Boy

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-53 days to graduation (hopefully)

Today wasn't a productive day at all, but maybe one of the happiest of the last few weeks. I worked a bit on my portfolio, watched a lot of Strenger Things, went to church (snapped the pictures while walking there) and, in the evening, volounteered at our local town festival.

It feels weird because the last time we held this festival was 2019, as we had to skip the last few years because of covid. Even so, everything was the same: the pizza oven was in the same place, the kitchen was in the same place, the pizza tasted exactly the same. It felt like time hand't passed. And yet so many things happened since then: I started uni, I almost finished uni, I almost lost someone really close to me, I visited new places, realized I am ace, covid happened, and then we thought we were out of it, and then we weren't, and we lost so so so many people, and many others suffered, and a ton of other things happened... The last three years have been a "pocket in time", they held so much stuff but sometimes it feels like they barely happened.

I don't know where I was going with this ramble... Just a small reflection I guess, because I don't want these weird years to be forgotten.

🍵 Tea of the Day: iced canned peach tea (EstaThe is my guilty pleasure)

🎵 Song of the Day: Tubthumping by Chumbawamba (I swear there's a reason behind this choice, but I'll leave it without context because that's funnier)

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-50 days to graduation (hopefully) (at some point I'll have the green light to officially graduate in July, but until then "hopefully" stays there)

Today was a bit underwhelming. In the morning I had my very last lesson, but since it was actually a revision, it felt a bit... anticlimatic? In the afternoon I went to the lab to work on the embroidery for the thesis skirt, but the embroidery machine was having none of it and the thread kept breaking. It is especially frustrating because I spent three hours last week to make a test, and everything worked perfectly then. Hopefully the issue can be resolved quickly, but not sooner than a couple of weeks Thankfully in the evenung I got ice cream with my dad, so the day ended on a sweet note

🍵 Tea of the day: vending machine """tea""" that I got because it wass freezing in my classroom

🎵 Song of the day: Miss Missing You by Fall Out Boy

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-12 days to graduation

Tonight I feel bittersweet. Time is passing too quickly; hours, days go by, flow like water and we forget about them istantly.

Sappiness aside, it wasn't a bad day. I did the thesis shooting and started editing the pictures. In the evening I attended a music reharsal and it wasn't bad

🍵 Tea of the day: Earl Gray with lemon

🎵 Song of the day: Tonight Belongs to You from The Prom

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-16 days to graduation (... officially)

I just had a terrible week, mentally; I don't like to talk about this kind of stuff on social media, but it doesn't hurt to admit that sometimes life sucks.

Yesterday I finally got the green light to graduate in July, so today I decided to take some rest. I edited the last formatting errors on my thesis, read and run some errands with my dad. I also finally reopened duolingo, that little bird was surprised to find out that I'm still alive :)

🍵 Tea of the day: English breakfast

🎵 Song of the day: Manila by George Ezra

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-44 days to graduation (hopefully)

I'm back, and so is Paglia! I needed a few days to recover from a disastrous weekend.

Today I studied a bit more for one of the exams I have to take in a few weeks. In the morning it rained, which helped my mood, in the afternoon it got warm again, and I got myself some gelato.

Right now I'm drinking tea and revising my written thesis.

🍵 Tea of the day: English Breakfast

🎵 Song of the day: Fallen Angel by TIX