2011 Year Balance

One month after started a new year I look back motivated by a previous blog in order to analyse if was an appropriate approach a balance between reason and instinct to achieve the goals (professional and personal) with personal satisfaction.  The main goals were:

• I defended my M.Sc. thesis successfully with meritorious mention. One of the academic challenges achieved.
• I traveled for first time to Europe (I knew Spain, Italy and Portugal). This was an amazing experience.
• I did my first internship outside in other lab in CETA-Ciemat (Trujillo, Spain) working in Grid Computing. Other people and other kind of challenges, a complete and enrich experience.
• I attended to my first summer school in ICVSS2011 (Sicily, Italy). This great moment was detailed in [Part 1, Part 2]
• I defended my PhD thesis proposal successfully.
• I get married with Diana Marcela Cardona (the most excited moment of year for me :D), in fact she also defended her M.Sc. thesis in last days and I am very proud of her :)
• I was selected by Colciencias for a National PhD grant (508/2011).

So I am pleased and happy by the last year :), this was an amazing year for me, and I have learned a lot and I have expanded my vision. 

I just hope this new year is not the end of the world as many people naively think, but rather be a year of many successes, growth and progress with new goals and challenges living fully and with passion balancing between reason and instinct.

That all may have a great 2012 (if not the world ends ¬¬ ')