Thesis is officially and completely done

The end is near for this humble senior... the end of college that is.

On Friday, I presented my thesis and in doing so officially finished my thesis for once and for all. It went over really well, it rocked a little actually. I was the last person to present for the Asian languages and studies department presentation, so I was a little worried about holding the attention of the audience, that and not having a minor cardiac arrest from the anticipation.

In the end however my compulsive need to make people laugh worked out well for making the presentation interesting. I think I got somewhere around 11 laughs in a ten minute presentation (one of which I didn't really get... but it's all good). I had a lot of professors and people attending the presentation come up to me afterwards to tell me that it went really well, and I managed to network with someone who is basically my double just two years older. She had the same major (which is pretty unusual in and of itself... how many french/japanese majors could there be out there?), studied abroad in the same city in France, hated the program just as much, and is now working for the same program in Japan that I am going to be working at starting in July.

Reminder to self.... Find the piece of paper that she wrote her E-mail on.

BTW, I <3 my second thesis reader. Seriously this man wins awkwardness of the year award. It's impossible to have a conversation with him, because he's so awkward it makes me awkward. And then you end up with conversations that end with just one of us walking away.

I've had major professor awkward encounters this year. I ended up hugging one of my professors that I've known for 4 years for a some reason that I couldn't really understand, and had to laugh to myself as I left the building over how weird the whole experience was. The same professor in another instance tried holding a conversation with me as we were going to the bathroom. Seriously, does this stuff happen to other people or just me? Senior year rocks because I get to know finally a lot of my professors better, but at the same time... I guess trying to talk while peeing is just an unwanted side effect.

I'm rambling now in order to avoid writing French papers... I should get back to it.

My French professor wins the gold star this semester BTW. She canceled our final and pushed back the deadline for the final paper because she said she felt she already knew we all already knew our stuff. She's going to end up with all kinds of presents when we go eat diner at her house.

STOP rambling already!!!

-N