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Decisions | May 15, 2010

Living in a country with everyone speaking a language that you are not good at is indeed frustrating . Even if I must thank all my work mates for the support and help , it is a nightmare with settling some tasks on your own . An experience that reflects all this was to open a bank account . I was awed at the news that nobody in the bank spoke English , and I had to struggle with my hopeless French to get my way around.

This week was also hard for me , due to some health issues my father is experiencing and being on the other edge of Europe does not help me focus that much .

On a more positive note , and also the reason why this post was a recent discussion I had with one of the managers at Orange Labs that just asked me a single question that made me reflect a lot . He asked me , what do you want to do after you finish your studies?  The question seemed so easy to answer a few weeks ago , but I don’t know if its that easy anymore . Before arriving here I had only experienced research within a University perspective , but never worked on a research within a large organization . I must admit that the feeling I get working on a project that I know will not just be shelved in some library does give me motivation .

Having said that , I still like the academic life and especially the flexibility you are given while conducting research in such a place . So indeed I do have a dilemma of my future .

I hope these weeks and months to come will give me a clearer frame of mind about my future . In either ways , even if its hard to be working so far away from all my family and friends , such an experience is making me change my mind on a lot of  goals I had set.