Hi there!

When I finished my Master degree, I was asked to give an encouraging talk to high school students from a public school at my hometown city (Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil).  The talk should focus on my academic experience, so I should say some words to motivate that students to pursue a graduate program in the future.

Then, I started from the beginning. I remembered when I was trying to decide which bachelor degree I should apply for, and that was a very difficult decision to me because there were a lot of options and people with different opinions saying what I should do. After this confusing experience, I gave the students this advice: Follow your guts! Because you should look for something that makes you happy (I know, I know… too cliché but true!).  And the reason is very simple: you will spend around 4-5 years of your life studying, learning and becoming aware of a specific area and this is too much time to throw away.

With that introduction I started to speak about my academia experience. I talked about my bachelor degree and projects, my industry experience and my master degree and projects. All this information I exposed before on Introducing myself post.

In the end, I concluded with the following sentence: “Study worth it!” Besides all the difficulties, it worthes the effort I guarantee. Well, I gave some space for questions too and they asked incredible questions and requested more information and more advises. I was so happy to share all these knowledge with them. I really enjoyed this experience, and I hope to see some of them, in the future, with a major degree. In addition, I expect to have more opportunities like this one where I could, somehow, influence a youth mind with positive instructions and be an inspiration example for these students. Of course, I had help and I really appreciate it, I would never achieve anything alone. So I would like to say: Thank you! to all my supporters, family and friends.

Cheers,

Jomara Bindá