UNITED WORLD COLLEGE MAASTRICHT

After four years in Madrid, I continued my journey at the age of 15 by moving to Maastricht, The Netherlands where I attended one of the 17 United World College schools and obtained my bilingual International Baccalaureate (IB). Going to a school as unique as UWC I interacted with people from all around the world that had left their home countries to be able to embark on this amazing educational journey at UWC. I learned so much about people's cultures, traditions and way of thinking, making me realize there was so much world yet to be discovered. It made me more culturally aware and also helped me widen my language profile
Moreover, IB gave me the ability to time manage, work under pressure and become more independent.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

After obtaining my bilingual diploma I was accepted to the University of Florida where I began my bachelor's degree in 2015 with a full Davis UWC Scholarship. I am currently pursuing a Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering on track to graduate in May 2019. This was my first time in the United States and away from my family, although it was tough to adapt to such a drastic change, I managed to pull through while maintaining a balanced schedule between class, extracurriculars, my job as a research assistant for the NASA funded project: DebriSat, my hobbies and passions, and my social life. Having to balance so many things at once gave a new definition to what I thought time management was. I learned to be more organized, to plan ahead but not be thrown off if things did not go according to plan (which tends to be the case in college), to practice self-care and just overall focus on being happy. 

In college, it is hard to lose sight of your goals and perspectives and become overwhelmed by everything around you, but I learned it is important not to compare yourself to others because everyone's situation is different and only you can determine what you want to do and who you want to be.