Flora: How did you
spend your first summer? How many hours did you spend on practice every day?
Miguel: I had a very
difficult first year. I do three language track, so I had course overload and
work overload. I wasn't eating or sleeping as well as I should, and it was
detrimental to my performance in the first year. I had five tests to take in
August.
So I thought I were
going home to sleep for two weeks. I didn't think that I were sleeping for two
months. 15 hours a day. Three weeks before coming back to take my exam, I began
practicing and enacted the interpreter in me by practicing. To my surprise, I
did better than I did in the first year. I passed all my exams and did well in
my second year. So your brain needs some down time. Use some time for your body
and brain to recuperate.
I feel the need to
share my story. Some excellent interpreters seem never need to overcome the
hurdles that I had. I grew up feeling pretty secure about myself. If I set my
mind, I can do it. I experienced failure for the first time in Monterey that I
was giving myself 110% and not being enough. Have I been fooling myself all the
time? Was I not that good? I remembered how frustrated for me being in that
position and was always looking at myself and saying to myself that I was the
problem, I was not of the caliber. I overlooked that people take different paths
to get to the same goal.
Shifting the
perspective was really helpful. Understanding that I just needed more time and
I needed a different route helps me tremendously for my second year. Though
everything was really fast, I had the confidence. I may fail my professional, I
may fail my finals, but I will come back to do it again.
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