I was studying my electrical engineering and as all the other Engineering students,I was searching for internships then.My interest was mainly in Electromagneti

I was studying my electrical engineering and as all the other Engineering students,I was searching for internships then.My interest was mainly in Electromagnetism and Field theory. I was really hoping for an internship at CERN[1]. I had applied for the same and did not get through.I then kept asking the professors there and tried selling myself quite a bit. I finally got one of them to accept me .However the required fee was atleast 4x what I could afford.As a result I could not go there. Considering the quality of education in Indian colleges and the lack of credible practical experience,I had to forgo those dreams in the field and take up some typical consultancy (like TCS but not TCS) job. This was the first time I had taken up programming(I refused to take it earlier because i considered the field over saturated and highly ephemeral(Boy o boy I was wrong )) .I enjoyed software development .I enjoyed the complete open nature of it and the speed and how helpful people were on the online community (compare stackoverflow and Electrical Engineering SE[2]) . I realised that I loved this work and I was glad that this happened. My point is this : We are no different from really capable Branch Prediction engines [3]. Every regret stems from an If. We learn along the way.I personally keep a list of all the things I regret which I always go through before making the next important decision in my life . I also regret not doing my Masters immediately after my graduation.I hope to do that soon too. [1]:https://jobs.web.cern.ch/join-us/short-term-internship-programme https://jobs.web.cern.ch/join-us/short-term-internship-progr... [2]:http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ [3]:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348