{"id":4551,"date":"2019-04-20T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2019-04-20T09:41:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T09:41:23","slug":"easter-break-as-an-imperial-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2019\/04\/20\/easter-break-as-an-imperial-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter break as an Imperial Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Easter, I was spending my holiday catching up with old friends, good food and a little shopping here and there. Now, I&#8217;m travelling to Japan, doing revision in Starbucks whenever I can. <\/p>\n<p>I admit travelling to Japan just before exams is risky business, but I&#8217;m convinced that spending Easter with family is far more important that getting a first class honor as a first year. Filled with anxiety and my head being in the wrong place at the wrong time, I I walked through Ginza. The street filled with all the best thing money can offer, I walked through Cartier and Harry Winston with absolutely no expression. In contrary to how I usually behaved. I would&#8217;ve been smiling like crazy, begging my sister to go in there, looking through jewellries made my head clearer. This time it didn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nI spent the first few days, travelling in Tokyo. Which I then proceed to Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>Three hours in the high speed train, I opened my Macbook and started to do some of my revision. Every seconds that we were not enjoying our vacation, I was trying to read lecture notes through blackboard. Started the morning with a quick read through some notes, and ending off the day the same way.<\/p>\n<p>I know it sounds painful and unenjoyable, but did I regret it? ABSOLUTELY NOT. The day I got my offer from Imperial was the happiest day of my life. 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