Talking About Chemistry and Saying Goodbye

Yesterday I presented what I did for the past 10 weeks in the lab along with all the rest of the UPCRO students who did the same program that I did. There was 12 of us, so it ended up being pretty much a full day of presentations that lasted roughly 20 minutes each. We had a crowd of 25 people or so (including all of the students). My talk went pretty well, I think. Afterwards they gave us some free food, after which we cleaned out our desks, gave back our swipe cards, and left.

After taking the free food that we were given, we all went our separate ways, walking home from work for the last time with plans to meet up to celebrate finishing our presentations and say goodbye. While I'm not leaving Cork until (very very early) Monday morning, most of the non-Irish students are going home earlier, today or tomorrow. The end of the program leaves me running around to finish off the last few things that I need to do before I fly back to the States on Monday wondering if I'll ever see any of these people again.