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It was only recently that I began to like pastries to go with coffee. Throughout the year, I always like looking at the café while passing by and seeing people relaxing outside while sipping their favorite beverages. The café soon became one of my favorite places to go to to relax and do homework since it was close to the dorms. One of my favorite pastries is the almond croissant since it’s not too sweet or overbearing. I guess what I enjoy alot about Berkeley is doing my homework in a coffee shop during the weekends since I find it much more relaxing and less distracting than in the dorms.

I’ve completed my finals a little more than a week ago and I received my final grades. There’s a little part of me that wants to nudge myself saying that I could have done better that semester considering I was taking less classes but at the same time I should feel content about how I performed. I guess the bright side in it is that my mom was rather content with my results and didn’t say that I couldn’t keep my job, whew. But in the end, I just hope that I can at least improve as each semester progresses to show at least that I have the ability to do better. Though, I’m still rather frustrated with myself that I am still not able to achieve the area that most people are doing. At the same time, I am still content that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

Packing up everything after finals was pretty hectic and saddening. In retrospect, I feel pretty fortunate that I was able to be rather close to the floor, close enough that many of the floormates encouraged to have get together dinners every week. I was a bit surprised that the majority of the floor was anything but emotional, but rather everyone looked forward seeing each other again. In the end, there are two ways to approach this kind of situation, and I’m glad that people took the future more optimistically. However, I’m sure everyone knows in reality most of us will probably drift away. I would be pretty surprised and grateful if I end up being wrong next year.

My summer break week went by really quickly, which is rather sad and irritating. I guess the only thing that I got out of the break was to stay up really late and wake up really late…a habit I never did during college and only do at home. I guess that routine never subsided since I would be drowning myself with tea that would make me wide awake. It was the only time that I was away from my parents too, so I really took my time.

Though, the summer wasn’t very enjoyable since there was alot of stuff to take care of in terms of the apartment that two girls and I are sharing. At first, I thought that the outline of the apartment was finalized and ready to go for me to move in. However, I was soon welcomed with scolding and anger from one of my roommate’s parents, which left me frustrated and unhappy with the result. I have to admit, what I did afterwards was rather immature as well (hanging up in the middle of a videochat),  but I was rather “resentful” of how poorly the whole apartment situation was handled. Luckily, all three of us moved passed it since we had more things to worry about for the apartment.

To be honest, I’m quite excited yet a bit sad to live a new life in an apartment. The great upsides to it is that I’m able to cook and experiment on different dishes rather than settling with the rather bland dorm food. I guess there will also be less distraction in terms of studying, so hopefully my grades will improve? However, it definitely will feel different without all the noise down the halls of the dorms and the accessibility of seeing friends/floormates. But then again, life is always full of compromises.