Many emotions, speeches more or less boring / interesting, lots of photos, and thousands of people ...
I write from Canada, so I'll make it short this time ... I will try to keep you abreast of our adventures at the earliest ...
the program, Mom and Dad arrive Friday graduation Saturday (with the hat and everything!), Fabi arrives Sunday ... after it north, Seattle-Portland-Vancouver area and ...
Today was my last day of classes ... Even if I have a take home final two reports and make a presentation, that's it's over ...
I enchaine during my last four materials the same day.
is a very exciting summer ahead of me but I think today is a milestone in my little life.
The end of 20 years of school, many agree the first years looked more like a daycare, and the beginning of life "active" ...
It was both a relief, a certain result but is also a major departure into the unknown. It is often said that you learn 10 times more on the ground, which is probably true, at least I hope so because I did not really feel like being a civil engineer ... But the school is an environment where you also learn every day, sometimes (or rather often) in trouble, under duress, but also have a medium or is pushing to use its intellectual capacity. Tapping into his knowledge, adapt to new applications. The thirst for knowledge, the questioning, the will to understand, these are the grounds of the school. Think critically, to recognize what is important to the chase, optimize their working time to be able to go to Happy Hour ... such are the joys of college benches ...
Berkeley is perhaps not the school or social life I had the most delirious, but one thing is sure, it well the place where I had to ask me the most questions. It is a great exposure to the world of research, people here do not make any calculations that have already been made before, most work on new issues, trying to develop new results. Sometimes it just to prove that the earth exists, but these are small challenges that lead to reflection.
Before being a little boring, I'll add that the school is just an opening and hope to all costs preserve this spirit at work.
I must say I'm sad to end my school career (at least in abeyance), although there are still two days of teachers responsible for our program I almost moved to stay PhD ... (Which does not happen every day). But I think it's time for me to work ...