Aberystwyth, May 2009

So, after four years of work, I finally have the legal right to add three letters to the end of my name.

After gaining an Upper Second Class Honours BSc (in non-academia, this translates to a 2:1 honours degree) from Aberystwyth University, it’s a strange feeling knowing that the last four years of your life are now officially over.

I will be graduating along with around a hundred of my peers within the Computer Science department at a ceremony in Aberystwyth in two weeks time, and although the ceremony itself will be a celebration of the previous four years, it will also be a celebration of the beginning of the next chapter.

Hopefully I can find a job among the millions of other graduates vying for the same opportunity, and start anew, although the fact that I am now (technically, at least) in the “real world” is a bit of a scary thought! I have definitely emerged from university a changed person from when I started in September 2006, and as I wrote in my farewell post from Aberystwyth, it is an opportunity I am lucky enough to have had and even luckier to have succeeded in.

I can only hope that success will carry forward!