Metamorphosis

Spending reading weekend with my family, with the initial euphoria dissipating, breaking the news to my mom that this is actually going to be a one year work term, and not a four-month one like the five prior (sorry mom and papa!), I was hit with something of a reality check. The negatives to living half a world away from home for a year finally surfaced. It'll be the first Christmas apart from my family. Will miss everyone's birthday for the first time. Everything on my to-do list will effectively be postponed a full year or more. Stuff like having my dad teach me how to drive standard, and going on (bike) rides with my parents. Countless everyday life stuff. Nothing earth-shattering and nothing that would've given me sufficient cause to decline Epson's offer, but nonetheless stuff worth thinking over. [Postponing graduation eight months (and being separated from friends) was really the only negative factor that ever entered my mind when making my decision.]

That being said, although I'm still exuberant about the whole thing, writing the two worst CS exams in my university career last week while I was off in another world dampened my spirits just enough to take me off cloud 9. I think I can concentrate now ;)