004. The inauguration: or college experience upside down.

This was an amazing event! Not only because we had and amazing scenery (thanks Casa Popenoe), amazing tour guides (thanks Javieres, Marcela & Diego), amazing guests (thanks parents, friends and Ufmers for coming), amazing speaker (thanks Dale), amazing MPC crew (thanks Bert, Ingrid, Carla) and amazing protagonists (Yeah Mpcers!) but also because it was an act of change. Literally our first official event as MPC was kind of graduation... you might say  A GRADUATION? BUT YOU ARE STARTING? Well the simple answer is yes! The closest kind of event concept that might describe what we did was a College graduation. Why? Well we had a foreign speaker guest, parents invited, students giving speeches about their dreams, a cocktail and even tears (thanks Grace) honestly we only lacked wearing togas and getting a piece of paper. But why we did this at the beginning? Well I will describe you what I think was the reason for this. Usually when you are at college you are waiting to get graduated in order to start doing the “Real Stuff” but what is real? Don’t worry I won’t get so epistemological about the subject. But in the simplest way the question is why we have to wait four or five years in order to start pursuing our projects? why we have to wait until we get our first job to realize the set of values that one learns being a passive member of  class don’t work if one really want to achieve something? why we have to spend years working at undesired jobs just to get some moment to enjoy of discovery and philosophy and learning to read the world? why we dare to call this activities superficial or classify them as hobbies for latter in life? Well I apparently I got excited but coming back the short answer to all this questions is that we don’t have to wait we can actually start exploring, think about philosophy, learn about the world, enhance our human experience, start pursuing our dreams and the skills needed to accomplish them NOW! Not in three years now is the moment and I think that is in the root of the concept of being at MPC.  If you think that I might skipped describing the actual event, well you are right but you can find that in New Media for now I believe it was better to share the thoughts I had during and after this amazing event.