When I was on my first year, I remember every single second year people said, second year is gonna be tough. Two weeks in, and I feel great, I feel better than ever.<\/p>\n
You know why I feel great. I spent my first year, trying to figure out the person that I wanted to be, doubts and all. In the process, I jeopardize my academic record, and I had to push so hard a week leading to exam week, that I felt like my body are disintegrating. I slept in one of the exam room, during the exam. The worst thing that could happen on exam week happened to me. But despite all that I passed, and I’m alive, and I couldn’t be more grateful that I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Is second year tough? So far, no. I know that it’s gonna get harder, but somehow I’m not scared anymore. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right. First year nearly killed me, and I got out the other side. Trust me, some people don’t find first year easy, don’t be so hard on yourself if you find it hard.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Okay, so what have I been doing for the first 2 weeks of term. Well, you would’ve think the first week is fresher’s week. Yeah, no. That’s not how we roll at Imperial. I landed in London on Monday afternoon after an 18 hour flight. Lecture started on Thursday, and my stored clothes are barely delivered, my room is an absolute mess, I don’t have a skincare or a shower gel, or a coat. Guess what, Thursday is pub crawl, and Friday is 10AM lectures. Woohoo! Yes we do have social life, I mean work hard play harder, am I right?<\/span><\/p>\n Second week be like:<\/p>\n Monday and Tuesday are 11AM to 6PM lectures.<\/p>\n Wednesday is free from lectures, but hey there’s that event with Shell.<\/p>\n Thursday is 9AM to 6PM lectures, with 3 hour lunch break in between, and<\/p>\n Friday is free-day.<\/p>\n Somewhere on my non-lecture time, Networking (which includes free drinks *winks*), social life, seminars of personal interest, and hobbies, well and more networking. Oh, and tutorials and some pre-readings. Honestly you’re in London, there’s so much interesting event to go to<\/span>, if only I could clone myself and go to all those events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was on my first year, I remember every single second year people said, second year is gonna be tough. Two weeks in, and I feel great, I feel better than ever. You know why I feel great. I spent my first year, trying to figure out the person that I wanted to be, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1324,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272456,385,148187,179710,1,92291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-272456","category-imperial","category-life-at-imperial","category-life-in-london","category-uncategorized","category-uni-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}