Why did I decide to study Telecommunications Engineering?

I like Telecommunications Engineering because I like to know how electronics work, and also because I like the communication between devices and people. I also know how technology facilitates our lives.

Ever since I was a little kid I liked science, because I always had a big curiosity for the way everything was made and how everything worked. When I was between 4 to 6 years old my father bought a computer that was very expensive around those years. When he bought it, I got very excited even though computers didn’t have games like they do today. So I started to tamper on it, I learned a couple of  programming commands, and I learned to enjoy writing commands and programs. After a couple of months, I broke our computer; it didn’t work anymore. But as easy as it was to ruin it I was able to fix it too. I don’t remember how it happened but I did fix it. Since then I haven’t stopped tampering nor fixing electronic devices.

When I was about 18 I started to study computers more deeply. I signed up for a Hardware, Software, and Information Technology course at an institute called Atenea; which was a very good institute back in my hometown, La Paz. There I learned so many things about hardware related to software and how those two parts could communicate and interact. Then I learned about networking and I thought that was a marvelous thing. I learned how to send messages or even files between computers within seconds. Then I appreciated technology as what it is, a way to facilitate work and communication.

After a couple of years I got into college and I chose this career for my appreciation of technology. I learned about programming in a deeper way. I learned how to get so deep that I could understand computer behavior. Then I learned how communication had changed in just a couple of years. Now communication doesn’t need wires to connect one computer to the other. Wireless technology has changed the course of communications because nowadays almost every kind of connection is done through the air. This kind of technology has changed the way you relate to everybody and everything else; that’s why I love it, and that’s why I chose to get deeper into this career.

Electronics have become a huge part of our daily lives, communication between devices, and even more. All of these aspects have influenced the way we live today and definitely has changed the way we see computers and people, and also has changed the way we manage our relationships with them. And that’s why I will keep pursuing the knowledge of technology.