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Stray Bullet (in electronics engineering)

Hello everyone! I am Melvic and i just joined steemit. I hope that i could interact with everyone in this community. This is my first time to write. So i hope that you will enjoy this somehow. And kudos to maam @iamrosallie for helping me to start this blog and gave me the opportunity to share my thoughts to all of you guys. By the way, this is a story of perseverance and struggle. This post could be long, but please bear with me. Here it goes.

By the term "stray bullet", it means that you're not supposed to be where you are. Just like me. So let me tell you a story...
Even in my elementary days, i always wanted to be an engineer. Same is true till i aged a little. I still remember, in my high school days, I like to construct and deconstruct things. Though most of the time, i was not able to reconstruct it. I always ended up destroying things i explore with. So we can just say that i charged it to experience..................and to my b*tt that being spank each and every time that i destroy our things. hahahahahaha

So fast forward. As i enter college, i took up electronics engineering. Seems like a perfect match right? You know, because i like constructing electronics stuffs. But i was wrong. All i have to face is math. For 3 years, most of the time i am just dealing with math. I am not bad in math. I swear. It is just engineering math is so much different in high school math and even in other courses' math. (i know this because i am tutoring education students, IT students, etc.. no offense, every course is hard. but each course has specialty) And trust me, staying up till 4 am and waking up on 6 am or having days without sleep is not fun at all.

So i started to lose my "heart" in engineering. I really wanted to stop. I already gave up. I don't want where i am now. I don't want to be here anymore. I am already a stray bullet.
But there are 2 things that kept me from taking up engineering. First, my family. I can't face my family if i gave up. I would be such a disgrace to our family. Especially we are not that close to each other. They might hive off me. Second reason for staying are my friends. I look up to them as my family. And i think i wouldn't last days without them. Knowing that i couldn't see them again, I couldn't stand it. So i stayed.

2 years of struggling have passed. Series of sleepless nights....and days.. But on my surprise, i am already loving again what i do without noticing it. Yes, it is hard. Harder that ever. There will come a time that you will cry. There will come a time that you want to give up. There will come a time that you will ask yourself if punishing yourself like that is really worth it. Trust me, just hold on. Believe on yourself. You can do it. And because of believing in myself with the help of perseverance, here i am now. I'm in the edge of finishing our thesis and graduating this month..... hopefully

So if I can do it, why cant you? All you have to do is to trust yourself. Believe on yourself!!! And in no time, i'm pretty sure that you can achieve what you love. Trust me. I'm an electronics engineer. 😎😎😎