Good afternoon. Today I just wanted to ask you what were your plans for the future: studies, professional life, personal things you think you could and maybe will improve. Concerning studies, I am 99.9% sure I’m going to do a CPGE (Classe Préparatoire aux Grandes Écoles or 2-3 relatively hard years before going to an engineering school) and then an engineering school where I would like to study electronics, mainly. Then, I guess apply for an electronician’s or electronic engineer’s job and a few years later create my own startup that I have been thinking about for years, which will be about R&D, innovation and many projects. I hope, like anyone else I guess, to succeed as much as I can.
For now, Parcoursup is very stressful. Not only for the students, but apparently for mothers (if I’m living it, anyone might as well be living with it too), brothers, sisters, fathers etc. I actually know exactly that I wanted to do a CPGE, and initially my mother said “ok”, at least she agreed. But 3 days before I clicked on the “confirm” button for the admission proposition for I wanted, she started going MENTAL (which is common, but she never gets as angry as she was this time) because I had 2 choices: CPGE, or a course a school proposed that clearly had hundreds of advantages over CPGE. No one understood why I wanted CPGE more than the other choice, it wasn’t totally clear to me either. But I chose want I wanted to do anyway, and my mother’s reaction to that was not as bad as I thought it would be.
Anyway, how about leaving a comment about what you want to do for studies, in your professional life, when you think you’re going to buy in your own place, how it would look like, etc. I mean just tell your life plans and projects!
See you soon!
Brahms
Ms. Hubbard
Parents get really invested huh? The choices in the French educational system are so specific and you must decide from such a young age what direction you’d like your life to take. . . S, ES, L, etc. . . . It’s too rigid!
In my opinion, at 18 it’s too early to know what career you want. This is why I think that the American educational system has this advantage; we spend so much time taking general courses and picking out things that interest us until we find something that we really want to do. When I was 18, I thought I wanted to go to medical school, I only applied to two universities, got into both then had too many difficulties in Biology 101 and the rest is history. . . Which brings me to my point, sometimes you don’t know what you want and that should be OK! Be open to change!