“Cómo conseguir una beca y no morir en e intento?” | Jenifer Cruz | TEDxCharacato

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I would like to raise his hand

those people who would like to win

a scholarship of this course of that subject that

they like it so much that they are so interested

very good

they come around and we are the majority

Now I would like you to raise your hand

to those people who have won by

at least a scholarship during his life

I raised my hand and this time

they are little this small survey reflects

our day to day are many all

that we want to win a scholarship but they are

few

However, today I come to tell you

how to get a scholarship and not die in the

try that is a scholarship a scholarship is a

economic subsidy may be partial

it can be total that is given to a

individual a person to perform

quietly your studies or also

an investigation to start this

talk I would like to tell you a little

about me I am a native of the district of

paucarpata from the province of espinar de

the region of cusco a district with

just 2,500 people whose quality

of life is low and that can be seen

reflected in this photo

you here observe these houses

apparently my classrooms are the

Classrooms where I studied are the classrooms

from my school precarious teaching classrooms

not very well prepared materials

precarious precarious equipment and so on

however, I was there with my diploma

happy posing my dads had an idea

clear and it’s something that I’m very

grateful with it

they knew this reality they knew that

if I stayed and probably was not going

go ahead

they had a phrase that education

and it’s going to take us out of the proven poverty

and it is with great enthusiasm that my parents

They decide to move here to the city

the city of arequipa

I ‘m very excited when they tell me this

that I was going to come here to study

all my family friends neighbors and

remembered an anecdote that marked me

very much and it was when I was very excited

with my mom we were in the square of my

district and came a lady from Lima

I told him I’m going to Arequipa to study

I’m going to study my high school

and she told me the following you’re going to go

arequipa very well but you know that you are going to

repeat two or one year because you know that the

education that you get in this place is not

the same one that you’re going to have there in that

moment I will not deny it

I felt a bit sad though

I said that ‘s not going to happen to me my

potatoes

I’m actually transferred to the city

of arequipa and here I give you my first

advice you all of a sudden on the road

to find obstacles people that

when you start wanting to start

something will tell them that they can not win

try that you desist from that

dream of your goal and I tell them

you do not pay attention to it trust in

yourselves believe that yes they can

achieve it but for this it is necessary

also know each other and know what your

strengths and what are your weaknesses

and depending on it you’re working

counting on my story

continuing with my story my parents

they decide to move here arequipa and

effectively when I come here

I find a big gap in the

education that I had received with the

I had here but there’s nothing that

effort with dedication compassion not

you can reach something cost me a lot

yes even me until finally I got my

target occupies the first place in my

school when I was at school and

having this advantage

I hear of an opportunity in the

which they told me that I had to

study two years in lima decade with

all paid and the last two are over

years of secondary education already when

I heard this news I thought

wonderful however I said will be

possible that they can pay me

absolutely everything united with doubt and

normally when we listen

about scholarships we can have some doubts

it will be possible that all of this is happening to me

it happened to me

however against all odds I

I applied and it was how I finished my

last two years in this school where

I was going as it is

I am now and they even put me on

uniform totally all covered with

the best teachers with the best

students with the best infrastructure with

the best nutrition and that I thought

wonderful

at that time it is in this school where

I begin to feel a taste for scholarships

because I thought it was very interesting

fact that they pay you absolutely everything and

that I only had that goal of

study and not worry about others

not worry about the economic issue

When I finished school I decide

return to the city of arequipa income

to the university and in my first semester

I find out that the government is

offering a scholarship to study the

five years

I found out about this opportunity to

Through my university and media

local and I said this is my opportunity and

effectively entered and managed to finish and

five decade decade with this program the

government as I no longer had concerns

for the money issue I did not have to

work is where in the university in

my second and third year where while

they are interested in entrepreneurship issues

and innovation leadership and I begin to

attend various events like this

inside and outside the university

that’s where I contact people

I make contact networks what we

we call networking I do it

connected through the social network

this social network that I think

wonderful and I begin to follow them to

these people who also share the

same tastes that I

the social network not only follows these

people but I also follow pages of

embassies to scholarship pages that year to

year they are launching their call and it is

as well I managed to win different scholarships

and he managed to study with everything paid in

different prestigious institutions

from the country

now many tell me jennifer things

to find out about scholarships

I was not aware so here goes my

advice

first go to your universities go

to the convention office there they go to

find the second opportunity

congratulations because they are here

doing this kind of events do network

of contacts

follow it on facebook follow other

embassy pages and programs

scholarships on facebook is my advice

success is the ability to go from

failure in failure without losing the

enthusiasm

this is a phrase that sums up a part

of my life when I finished school

I applied to many calls for

study abroad

I really wanted to study in the

foreign however when they passed

the selection processes

there was a breaking point where I

said srta

you are not accepted I found out about a

call and said this is my

opportunity

I saw that he had high grades of

met most requirements but

there was a point where I could not apply and

on the subject of languages

gentlemen indeed that phrase that you

they say the language or the languages that it opens

the doors to the world

that’s absolutely true I’ll

I checked and having this reality clear

and I knew that I had to learn

in my second year of college

start studying languages ​​study

English the Portuguese and in fact the

scholarships

when I have these yes when jot

when I studied and finished these

these two language seems to me a

opportunity to study in the

abroad with absolutely everything paid

also from this same flight until

he came there and fed everything

stopped and only I had to focus on

study I said now is my opportunity if

before I did not take advantage of it now that I already have

the theme of the perfect language for me

Second advice in most scholarships

that you want to postulate one of the

two main requirements that will

ask is the subject of your notes and the subject

of the languages

if you already have these two requirements

I assure you that you have a 70

advanced hundred to win a scholarship

this year I had the opportunity to study

in a university of brazil decade

doing my internship in research and

well that was the result of a

effort and also knowing my

reality now when they find out about a

scholarship and you know you have the

requirements as I mentioned

previously the basic ones

It is important that you read all the

information had and for having

that is extremely important many

people who tell me

Jennifer I met the requirements

but in the process I do not know what happened

I tell you informed well has

read and some tell me not because I

I say what you have to do is

read all the information since it deals

who offers where to give as when

whom they offer and one thing I

I already tell you something that has helped me

very much

if you have someone known a

friend who has already won a scholarship asks

and do not be afraid

that’s going to be the direct channel for

you can achieve that scholarship that both

longs

this year I had the opportunity to work

in a rural area with these wonderful

children a rural area of peru

In addition to a hamlet with them I had the

opportunity to share my

knowledge and experiences through

education and after finishing this

experience I realized something and

analyzing a bit about life and

opportunities that they give us

I realized that scholarships are not the

are a means for us to achieve

be successful professionals capable of

contribute with our country

one of the things that I tell you

the institutions that provide the scholarships

not only choose or look for the best talent

but also look for those young people who

have that attitude of service

this attitude of giving generate create value

I tell you finally we

we have come to this world to help

to leave a legacy and make this one a

place better

and you are thinking of doing all

the next few months

they want a scholarship get or there they are

The advice I give them but

also think of others

thank you very much

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