“Okay. I’m coming.” followed my final reply to Chidinma, as I began dropping my phone from my ear. I wasn’t feeling wonderful about my response as I was really very busy with my project report and needed no distractions whatsoever.

I was already very far behind schedule, and with rumours filtering from school that a first review will be happening as early as January, I barely had any reason to celebrate Xmas as required. I had already told my people I wasn’t coming home, so no one was exactly expecting me anymore. I was going to remain alone to face my immediate task squarely.

And of course, any graduate engineer would tell you this period is usually the most trying of times of their training days in school. From a rather strenuous search for a project focus/title to a reoccurring pursuit for said title to be approved by your personal supervisor. Then follows the tedious research and subsequent writing/typing while still seeking approval for each chapter/section completed. It was just a burden too bulky to bear, and I haven’t even mentioned how much financial resources that would inevitably get consumed by the long process.

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