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Higher education – emotional moment !

I had matured. My parents didn't hold it against me,
I started again and finished well, as did the other 2 years.
In June 1975, I graduated as an electronic engineering
technician, specialising in applied nuclear science. I finished
my studies with an average of 77.5%. That's quite an
achievement compared to the pupil I was at primary school.
The further I got with my studies, the harder I worked,
because I was interested in the subject.
I had assimilated one of the fundamentals of learning by
replacing the fact that you study to pass an exam with the
fact of increasing your 'knowledge'.
Basically, I have no regrets, because I know the end of the
story, but it's obvious that there are young people for
whom the story didn't end well. Time management and

organisation are essential when you start higher
education. As I mentioned earlier, from the age of 12 you
have to make a fundamental choice about the direction you
want your life to take. Whether this direction is chosen,
forced upon or by default, it's there.
I've also noticed that when you leave secondary school for
university, you're generally not well prepared for this fairly
radical change in lifestyle, which has major consequences.
All the statistics show that, for decades, more than 45% of
students fail in their first year. Everyone is aware of this
fact, but fundamentally, nothing changed!
After a few years, the technical engineering diploma
changed and became the industrial engineering diploma,
which takes 4 years to complete. I followed the whole
procedure to obtain this equivalence and I got it.

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