The fiber-college

The moment when someone asks you what you do in your career, happens something similar to what people who has been near death say that happens: A lot of images and memories come to your mind; people and moments when you had a good time and moments when you suffered, and you try to pick up the most representative ones to transmit to the listener the most of the experiences with the less of the words In my personal case, the FIB is Not sending the papers on time, to learn to organize Having bad teachers, to value even more the good ones Being refused, to use it as a motivation to keep trying Going wrong again and again, to learn to do it right Failing involuntarily, to realize that what you thought was trivial,was the most important Choosing your friends in the groups, to learn that friendship and work don’t always go together Being late for class, to learn to get up Having strict teachers, to value every tenth of a point Being told YES, and feeling proud and accomplished Continue doing it wrong, to realize what you were doing wrong Failing voluntarily, the amount of hours you were distracted unexcused Choosing the subjects, learning to listen to your mates

Nowadays, the FIB has given me a lot Uncertainty, to be aware of any changes Knowledge, to realize how less you really know Stress, to know how much can 5 minutes be streched Speed, to intensify the concentration during exams Efficiency, to speed up the making up of the slides Patience, to be efficient in the hours/results relationship Empathy, to be patient with all the group members Consideration, to remind to the forgetful the next day’s homework

For all the above, a lot of things could be changed in the fib, almost everything that made you suffer in one way or another the first years in the selective phase the subjects weekly exams the laboratories previous works the little material for the deliveries

But at the end, you realize that the only thing that needed to be changed was you. Everything’s a matter of perception. Things around you practically don't vary, unlike the way you see them. College is like life itself, being hard makes you become the best version of yourself.