It's result season and I have to say, I am finally starting to see the fruits of my hard labour. I felt so lost and unhappy after my final exam, unsure what to do with myself, uncertain about my future. But now, results season is coming through... and the past three years are all coming rolling around back to me. I feel proud of what I've done in uni, and I thought I'd share it with you. Seeing as I've shared the hardest times of my life on AFF, why not the highest times too, right?

My tutor cried when she read my personal essay, which I wrote for my application to my dream master degree because she was touched by it. I can only hope it has a similar effect on the person who reads it on other other end... The official announcement for whether I got a spot is in June. We'll see.

My presidency of my student society has come to an end. It was ranked Best Academic Society, and I was awarded best president. I passed on presidency to the next gen, and recieved such an outpouring of love from my staff.

I came in top of my philosophy class. I recieved the highest grade for my essay that my professor has ever given to an undergraduate student at my university. My professor shook my hand and congratulated me. Gosh, I could have burst into tears on the spot.

Another professor of mine approached me after marking season and asked me if we could work together to expand my dissertation and publish it in a journal. A real, physical thing I can take away from my essay writing during university... This gave me an even bigger shock than the response to my philosophy essay. It's going to be a new journey, one I didn't dream I'd walk down so soon academically.

My professors have started throwing around sentence fragments like "when you do your PHD" and "when you become an academic" in conversation. I hadn't fully digested the prospect before, but the more I think about it, the more it seems like a viable life option for me. I've always loved academia. Who knows? At least they are encouraging me, making me feel like it really could be a good choice. We'll see, many years down the line...

I'm just so happy, so excited, so elated!

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