happy graduation

Had my graduation ceremony on the 29th May! It was pretty boring and my fats were threatening to spill out of my dress most of the time. Can't say that I felt a lot of excitement graduating, especially since I got rejected by all three local universities. It was just a nice opportunity to see my friends for one last time in NYP. I didn't upload all of the pictures, so a lot of people are missing. It's not that they're less important, it's just that I'm too much of a lazy shit hahahaha. So out of convenience, I just uploaded the group pictures.

It feels so surreal that three years have passed just like that. After withdrawing from SP I never imagined I would end up at NYP. I didn't even consider applying to NYP even though I got rejected by all the courses I applied for (rejection seems to be a strong recurring theme in my life). I was just so against NYP because I thought it wasn't a very good polytechnic. It was only till the very last moment that my mom made me write an appeal letter to NYP and I got accepted two weeks before school started.

I met a whole bunch of great people in NYP and I'm so glad to have them as my friends. I think I did a lot of growing up in NYP. Although school work mostly seemed like a chore and project work was the absolute worst, in some ways, all of the time and labour I put into them made me a  better person. Also, I wouldn't say ALL the lecturers in NYP are great, because some are pretty shit ass terrible and useless. However, there are a few whom I truly respect and admire and will always be thankful to them for their help and guidance.

NYP presented a lot of great opportunities too, the most significant one being starting up the webstore. When I left SP, it was simply a casual thought to start up a webstore. I wanted to do it, but never got the push. Finally, in the last year, it was a project for a retail module and it gave me all the push I needed. A bit too late considering the market is so saturated, but it's better late than never right? 

There was such a vast difference coming from SP into NYP. I was a lot happier even though studying business was never in my life plan. I got along well with my classmates, more so than with the people in SP. In SP I was clueless, and felt pretty useless when it came to project work. In NYP, I knew my shit (most of the time), and NYP showed me what I was capable of. 

Sitting in the auditorium that day, it was like being in a safe haven within a bubble that was about to burst. In those few hours of being in school and among my friends, my current problems and worries were distant. Being with people whom I cherished made me feel happy. For those few precious hours, I felt calm inside. 

Everything will be different now. No longer will I be able to sing in empty tutorial rooms or gossip about all sorts of people with my classmates. No longer will I sit outside the lecture theatres playing whatever latest card game with my friends and chattering so loudly that the lecturers had to come out of the theatres to shush us. 

I never thought I'd miss everything with this much longing, but I do. 

Thank you for everything NYP. Despite all my complaints about your flaws, you did give me an awesome three years and a bunch of people I will never forget.