After high school, Laetitia, now 23 years old, decides to pass the PACES, the first year of medicine, because she dreams of working in the field of health. Pressure, work, anxiety ... this year of study is going very badly and it is failing to be admitted in second year. First undermined, the young student succeeds in getting the upper hand. Tuesday, at the microphone of Olivier Delacroix, on Europe 1, she tells how she drew the conclusions of her failure to better exceed it.
"I went to a private high school, my parents enrolled me in this school because their requirements were so high, they wanted me to get good grades and to go to prestigious studies. I want to work in the field of health.
But yet I had difficulties in school and some teachers did not support me especially in my professional projects. Some people told me that with my results I will not be able to work in this field and that I had to think about another voice.
But Laetitia is still trying and fits in the first year of PACES ...
This year went very badly. I knew I wanted to do it but it was a very difficult year. I felt the weight of the words of these teachers. I was also putting pressure on myself because I knew that there was only 15% success per year, it was a lot of anxiety, a lot of work.
I failed and I did not live it well. It was the first time in my life that I had a real failure. It really impacted my self-confidence because it was a professional project that was close to my heart for a long time. I also realized that my parents were a little disappointed.
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However, the young woman gets up and retes the PACES in a different perspective ...
After this first PACES I had missed, I worked in a restaurant during the summer and I met people who came from different backgrounds, who had reoriented several times in their studies and who were blooming. I also met a person who had not passed his Bac at all and who for several years still managed very well.
These people were very happy in their life despite different paths. It opened my eyes to another mode of operation than the one that had been put in my head. I understood that I had the right to fail, that one could not have a linear course. I also understood that what I thought was a failure was not necessarily one because I had recorded a lot of knowledge. It also taught me a lot about myself, it pushed me to be more persevering and to tell me that even if the path is not right I will reach my goals one way or another . And besides, today I have advanced, I am in the second year of physiotherapy study. "