Day -2: The Farewell

The exams are over, everything is ready. Clothes in the suitcase and the laptop in its bag. Throughout the week, I've been saying goodbye to everyone I could. At first, I was meeting up with one person a day, calmly chatting after a hard day of studying, but over time I realized that I wouldn't have time to see everyone, so I had to create a "shift" system. It might sound a bit harsh, but it was the ideal solution to a logistical problem: I have to say goodbye to many people who don't know each other and belong to completely different worlds. In the end, I think I managed to say goodbye to everyone thanks to the shift system: there was an after-lunch shift and a nighttime shift. I even had to create shifts today, which I thought I wouldn't have time for because I hadn't yet had time to say goodbye to everyone. After finishing the chemical engineering exam, I stopped by the library to say goodbye to everyone who was there, especially my IPhO (Physics Olympiad) companions who have been very supportive; and to my library comrades with whom I have always studied and rested for thousands and thousands of hours. (Sigh...). I also managed to say goodbye to the owners of the Ilusiones kiosk, where I have always gone to buy bread and the newspaper; and to Laly and María, owners of Don Perrito, where the hamburgers always reach perfection. (Big sigh...)

I managed to compress the crap accumulated for 3 years in my Salamanca room into my father's car, which is quite an achievement to do without histones (the scientific joke of the day), leaving the room bare, down to the bone. It has been a hard moment. Now, it's time to turn the page and, as footballers say when they change teams, to start a new stage. Here we go!