Three years since I finished college 🎓🏫 (Lessons I learned during this time)



It will be three years since I ended my electronic and telecommunication engineering career in a couple of weeks. As alumni, I needed to write a few words about the time have passed since that date. It was 2019 when a younger Santiago, wholly of expectations and illusions, ended his degree thesis and was prepared to expose his final project to become an engineer in front of his known teachers.


I'll never forget that date, especially how I felt; I was so nervous and surrounded by questions about my future inside my head. How would it be? What will be the next step?. These are common questions that I'm entirely sure all students ask themselves. 


I wore a blue jacket and white shirt, with a sky blue tie, and my shoes looked new. I brought the old computer that had accompanied me during my entire career; my mother and grandma were with me that day.  


Once I finished my exposition and left the salon, I swear I was in the sky for a short time. I was with my old fellas; all of them were gathered with me, alongside my relatives. I took the last pic of the cross monument that I always remembered during my years in that institution. Once I left college, life would not be the same.


During the next three years, many back and forth, and the two years of the pandemic, I have (or at least I believe that I have) more maturity and sapiens about my life, and I realize how the time can change even the most powerful mind. I will write here a couple of things I learned about life; I don't want to enumerate them, only I will write them.


▨ The title is not so essential as your abilities and experiences.


▨ Time is valuable, but your only realize that when it is too late.


▨ Your contacts are more important than your grades.


▨ Your proficiency in English is more valuable than you expected.


▨ Life is not fair.


▨ Work is not related to your formal studies.


▨  You don't know anything about the labour world.


▨ There is nothing worse than leaving apart your dreams in order to become an adult.


▨ Friends are like your playlists; they are always there when you need them.




~S.

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