Simone Gariglio

Before Fall 2009, I could just imagine what an exciting and challenging experience I was about to start. Once I got to the Georgia Institute of Technology campus, I suddenly realized that my life would have been changed very soon along with my personal expectations for my academic and professional future career.

Graduating @ a top-ranked university such as Georgia Tech may mean to have a passpartou to open all the doors one strongly wants to get into. This is possible thanks to its educational strengths, spanning from constant participation toward in-class works to closed relations with professors and PhDs. Such environment allowed me not only to enhance my academic preparation and proficiency in English, but also to enrich my life experience as a whole. However, difficulties have not been that rare. Studying requires a lot of efforts and renounces since peers are very competitive, as it occurs in the real world. After my American graduation, I focused on my thesis @ Technische Universität München where I spent my Summer 2010. I performed a research project involving an open technology by collaborating with very dynamic researchers. Once back, I graduated @ Politecnico di Torino in Fall 2010, thus fulfilling my graduate career.

Meanwhile, I won a scholarship to attend a II level specializing master @ Politecnico di Torino. This further academic experience allowed me to combine both post-degree preparation in a hot topic and to collaborate with brilliant students coming from many countries worldwide. Further, as final step, the program includes an internship by a qualified company which is currently leading me to experience some practical issues often an engineer has to face during own professional career.

What's next? Nowadays it's getting harder and harder to match own inner wishes with practical needs. The only way-out I feel to suggest is always trusting in own potentialities, that means in practice daring to take the risk to second own inspirations.