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 Happy Birthday Maria!

Had a lovely time celebrating the birthday of Maria - a friend and neighbor!

The best part was that I only had to go down two doors to get home

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Celebratory dinner with the girls at the "fancy" restaurant on campus before partying it up at the Copper Rooms (the campus "club") until the wee hours of the morning

And yes, the air quotes were necessary

Saying Goodbye

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
From Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Just about everyone has turned in their final essays and dissertations.

The Library is almost empty.

People are starting to pack up and head home or wherever they got a job (if they were lucky enough to get one already).

It hit me that this was the end when my first housemate moved out today.

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After staying up all night printing, then standing in line for 3 hours to get them bound, the proud WMG students show off their beautiful Dissertations!

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I have accomplished my final task . . .

The dissertation has been submitted! 

Enjoy this stop action film of the event

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Our prison

AKA the Library

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The deadline is creeping frighteningly close

To make matter oh so much better, today is a Bank Holiday and the university felt it was acceptable to close the library, and the PG Hub, so we had to work in the Learning Grid - with everyone else who has dissertations due. In other words it was packed and loud, not a good working environment. 

Surprisingly there was only one meltdown all day and it didn't happen until after 10pm, so that's something.

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Real Italian espresso made by a real Italian 

in a tiny cup (the espresso, not the Italian)

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So relaxed . . .

Why you may ask? Oh, he's almost done with his dissertation

Some people (such as Anni, as seen in the background) aren't so carefree 

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For the past two weeks we've been ordering "Indian" food

(it's in quotes because it's really Pakistani but other than Dolly none of us know the difference, don't judge) 

Panic and Stress

"'I like the cover,' he said. 'DON'T PANIC.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.'"
From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

It's setting in. The panic. All assignments have it, of course, but there's something about the word "dissertation" that makes everyone's lungs seize and hyperventilation set in.

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Dinner and drinks with the girls during a dissertation writing break

One week more and we're free (their deadline, but I'm adopting it!)

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Some of us went to Oxford for a day out and to visit the lovely Emily

We had Chinese for dinner

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At least when I get to go outside the weather is nice so I can enjoy scenes like this!

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Please just take a moment to enjoy the pictures...

This is just a taste of the wonder I experienced today

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It was raining (hard) so Anni and I decided that we were going to wait for Manu to drive to campus.

We made it as far as the bus stop and Pippa died.

We had to push her so she didn't get run over by an incoming bus.

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Flatmate Zain

As you might guess from the few pictures I've taken of my roomies, we spend most of our social time in the kitchen

Don't ask what the fingers about, I didn't know then and I certainly don't remember now!

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