As soon as I entered my first degree in History in 2006, I was already questioned about whether I could combine the study of this area with something related to informatics, and the response was very emphatic from one of the professors, "no". From then on, at that moment, I gave up studying programming language and focused on studying authors and interpreting historical moments, which was fundamental to learn about scientific analysis and developing solutions.

However, during a good part of my degree, I continued to work with informatics, sometimes with computer hardware, installing software, scanning books and digitizing seminar documents, creating and maintaining professional blogs, and so on for several people in my context. And the idea of combining the exact and human areas still drew my attention a lot, and at that moment, I didn't have much guidance on the paths and possibilities that I could follow.

Until in 2012, I was approved for an course in the informatics field - Analysis and Systems Development at IFRS (Federal Institute of Science and Technology), the name of the course at the time was not so well known because it has a more technical and market-oriented approach, different from a Computer Science course that also addresses theories and deepens this IT universe, which I consider fundamental for those who like to broaden their knowledge. And to complement, I was also approved in the same year for the Social Sciences course at UFRGS (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul), and I decided to experiment studying in both areas at the same time, and then decide which career path to choose.

The experience in the exact area was more interesting at that time because it allowed autonomy to develop my ideas beyond texts, and I considered it important to expand my perception of technology, and of course, to better understand everything that I already worked with. However, I felt that it was necessary to deepen my understanding. The decision to change careers was based on various experiences and mainly by the future perspective that I wanted, because everything I had learned was self-taught, and the human area was important in this process because it allowed me to understand that interdisciplinarity is fundamental, and the analysis of the perspective of society's future was technological, thus favoring a more in-depth understanding of the technical area, as well as in the business and project areas.

But it was not easy to understand everything that information technology (computer science) had to offer; it is a continuous process that requires a lot of discipline, practice, theory, and reading a lot of software documentation =). However, one of the things I learned, which was one of the fundamental factors in aligning the expectations of my professional career, was the possibility of having excellent mentors, professors, and/or advisors who really made the bridge between teaching and learning, in the most didactic way possible, and also using methodologies that allowed the flow between theory and practice, in a fun way. For example, I learned programming logic by making a cake recipe and then programming an instruction and seeing the computer executing the code/task I wrote and showing the result on the screen/terminal was a feeling of enormous satisfaction.

However, my idea with this first post is to motivate people not to give up on their dreams, whether in the academic, professional, personal, and so on areas... After more than 10 years of studies, it is very good to be a reference for other people, to learn, teach, and share, especially for my daughter, girls, and women.

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