Saturday, May 24, 2008

graduated!

HOORAY! we are not students any more!! the university is left behind and crossed out from our lives! what can be better? mm well a few certain things i guess ;)

anyway. all of us have got the best marks! that's nice too, especially taking into consideration all the stress caused by the university... it was at least smth comforting :D.

several words about the defense itself. of course, it was awful. we stayed at uni from 10 am till 8 pm. for 2 hours we were just helping at the chairs of informatics to sort things out, to find necessary papers and have professors sign them. as usual it speaks of great lack of organization. we had our interest in it.. the sooner they'd finish sorting things out the sooner the defense would start. so yes if we didn't help them probably we would go home on the next day :D

the terrible part for me was that i had to defend in armenian.. when i said the name of my project, i actually forgot how to start in armenian :D and i was terrified :D then slowly-slowly i pulled words out of me, constantly thinking what to say in the next sentence. however it all was good and they asked me to show the program (!!!). then my supervisor, mrs. Alaverdyan, had to say several words about me. somewhere in the middle she said ".. i'm surprised that in such a small-bodied person there's so much energy .." and i hardly managed not to laugh out loud. this is very amusing for some zzvanq people like Michael :D.

in the end Anya said "why didn't she say 'humble' about me? she said it about you and about Alex" that made us laugh a lot too. 'Anya' and 'humble' can't even be used in one sentence :D.

And yes, a big thank you to Michael for his help and patience and for just being there all the time :) i love you zzvanq :D(L)

yesterday we went out to celebrate. after thinking where to go we decided to check out if we could sit at Jazzve. and there was practically nobody there! then we walked some, sat at a park, then walked to the Republic Square. The view of the fountains awed me! they were really beautiful! and the evening was beautiful, and it felt so right and easy to be standing there with friends with that great weight off our shoulders! we are FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Photos
diploma defense
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from Alex
diploma defense celebration


Also, Alex's post about diploma defense is here

2 comments:

Dharmist said...

Congratulations! :)
Don't you feel like relieved or smth? I don't, actually, but that's probably due to my total absence from all that university stuff for last.. em.. four years? Anyways, hope you enjoy the new 'non-student' status )

Cheers,
Nelly

P.S.: and don't even ask how on earth have I find your blog - cannot explain really. But I love it here, will subscribe to feed to track you out :-P

Irina D. said...

hey!! lol ah Nelly i'm not that much surprised, you were in link-builders for some time so you know how to find things :D and oh well I'm just happy that i won't have to go university at all and that their new 'smart' ideas will have no effect on me and my life :D (like translating the diploma in 2-3 weeks)