Leafa

I got to go to a super expensive restaurant with my work team on Friday, one that's super high up there in the rankings for the country. I had roasted duck, it was amazing, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. I won't get to go again any time soon, but I'm definitely going again one day.

Hey! When I was a kid, I loved Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn, Micaiah was totally my bae, I adored her. Then I started university and I lost my ability to play games. I think I can count on one hand the amount of games I completed while I was in school? I just couldn't focus on them. I haven't played any of the more recent FE games but I really got into Heroes over the weekend when I found it on the app store. My sister gave me Awakening to play as well. Uhm, other than that. I finished university last year and work as a software engineer. I love my job and it pays amazingly, I always wake up feeling lucky to work in such a great environment. I love anime, I used to run a university anime club. My favourites are Mamoru Hosoda's films, Steins;Gate, and Love Live. I loved Your Name, I'll admit I pirated it, but I regret it because the only copy available online is watermarked and double hardsubbed. I'm hoping it'll come to a theatre in my town because I want to make things right and watch it the way it deserves to be watched. I'm obsessed with The Witcher 3. I bought it over Christmas and I adore it, it's everything I want in a fantasy game and more. I'm just so bad at fighting things, haha. I guess that's a little bit of me? I joined because I want to see what I've been missing in the FE world. I also lost the ability to roleplay when I started university and I'd like to start it up again. I miss it.

My all time favourite game is The World Ends With You, it's so underrated! If you're a fan of Square Enix, give it a go. It does have a real time battle system if it matters, but the story and soundtrack are killer!

College is a whole different ball game compared to high school, it hits you like a ton of bricks just how much you have to manage. I just graduated from a 5 year engineering degree and I had to learn as I went, but I'm a master ball-juggler now haha. It's important to learn these skills now because as someone who's now in the workforce and living on my own, managing multiple things at once doesn't go away when you graduate, and the internet (or worse, the power) will go out if you forget to pay the bills! I'd suggest getting a planner or using Google Calendar to track your assignments/tests. Your brain's purpose isn't to remember tests dates and due dates. Let your calendar do it for you. I used a bullet journal because it was flexible and cheap, all you need is a blank notebook. Always try to start the assignments early, I used to try to finish them for a day or two before they were due so that I'd have a bit of a buffer. Staying on schedule (or ahead if you can) is one of the biggest ways to avoid stress. Find a good place to study, this is vital. If it's a certain table at the library, or my faculty gave my class 24/7 access to a lab that we could work in. The important thing it's not at home where you'll inevitably find things to distract you. Always work/study in that area. You'll eventually associate that place with work and it'll be easy to focus. As for stress, I always followed the rule that unless absolutely necessary, I'd never work on a Friday night. Saturday was pretty relaxed and Sunday I'd start back up with work again. I'd always plan something to look forward to after a stressful week, whether it was a hot bubble bath or going out drinking with friends. If you can make friends within your classes, do it. My best friends all come from my class. We joke that we bonded through suffering. When crunch time really came around, it was a lot easier to go in the lab on a Saturday morning to work on assignments when my friends were right there with me. We all learned a lot better when we could discuss things too.