The Developer | Aleks Mishev
As an avid tech-person, highly motivated individual, driven by the goals he has set for himself, the 22-Year-old Aleks Mishev is a senior at AUBG, graduating with a degree in Computer Science and Information Systems. He lies relaxed on a sofa with excitement, ready to share his senior experience.
Aleks thinks of AUBG as a place that has built him as a person, both academically and socially. He believes that the best way to succeed in the university is to get involved in the majority of events around campus that are of your interest. Aleks says, “The social networking that you can build in the university is great. Professionals from around the country and even from other countries come here and share so much of their experience.” His advice to freshmen is to meeting new people and actively engage in the AUBG community.
In regards to academics, he says that the study environment in AUBG sets you in a routine that teaches you discipline. He says, “The way that AUBG is structured it makes you follow this routine of mandatory attendance, but that is a good thing because you learn so much during the lectures and discussions that often happen in them.” Sharing the same thoughts, Denislava Angelova, Aleks’s girlfriend thinks that the university teaches you how to take your responsibilities more seriously.
Even though knowing that he wanted to study computer science, Aleks took all opportunities given by AUBG to learn and experience something different. In his freshmen and sophomore years, he was taking some business courses as well, in order to get an idea of what those courses offer. “I took a few business courses, because I knew the university known for them. They were definitely interesting, but they helped me understand that I am really passionate about computer science,” he says.
In his first years at AUBG, Aleks used to be a quite shy person. He was not so keen on actively engaging in the community and meeting new people as he is today. He says, “The people that know me can agree that I am super shy and I still am, but I am constantly working to beat it. Shyness won’t get my anywhere, that is for sure.” Denislava says, “He used to be shy, but now he is trying to speak more publicly and works on that problem. I think he has some improvements here and there.”
What helped him move past his shyness were the student clubs, which he joined in the university. In his first year he joined “The Hub”, he says, “It was the first club that I decided to join, naturally being tech interested.” The most important lesson that he learned from the club was during one of their main events. There he saw how the people were working together as a team and how happy they were for achieving something together. “After the hackathon, I looked at how happy everybody was. Happy for what they managed to achieve together.” He also joined a second club, “TEDx”. “In my third years I joined TEDx, which is a well-established club here at AUBG and it was way different that The Hub, it is less techy, but it meant that I will meet more people with a variety of interests and knowledge,” Aleks says.
Building on all this experience from the university, Aleks considers himself ready for what awaits after graduation. During his studies, he had multiple internships that were helped by people he met in the university. Aleks says, “I am really excited and I can’t wait to put everything that I have learned into practice.” He believes that internships are awesome, but they last for three months after which it is back to the university and life on campus. “You know that those internships last only three months and your commitment is the university again next to friends. Working will definitely be much harder and different.”
Although waiting with excitement, Aleks knows that graduating from AUBG will also leave plenty of friends scattered around the globe. “Being this excited also makes me feel sad, because I know that all the people with whom I am enjoying my time now will split on different paths. There will be tears, a 100 per-cent.”
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Svetoslav Zhelev is majoring in Information System with Data Science Orientation and Journalism and Mass Communications. This interview introduced him to someone sharing the same passion about Computer Science.
