Dr. Diego Bohórquez

But that was something that you just grow into it, right?

But it was with the years and now especially that I get to reflect on it.

I was extremely fortunate through that experience and that education.

And now I'm here sharing some of the story and hopefully through that inspiring some people, especially young people that would like to go and chase their dreams, you know?

You graduated and you decided to go to... Yeah, so I wanted to become a... So in the military school, they will select the top cadets, like I think it was the top 10%, and they will select them and they will put them through a special training.

So you have... Essentially, I didn't have like what was a normal summer vacation.

You know, I would go into military training.

So for me, it was gonna be very, not easy, but relatively straightforward to transition into officers academy, right?

Like do four more years, like West Point here, and then like become an officer, right?

In fact, I had a reserves officer degree when I graduated.

But two years before graduating,

a friend of mine who, he prefer other types of careers.

He said like, you're not gonna become a military, right?

You're not gonna go into the military.

And he said, you should probably study something that will help your parents.

And then I said, what will that be?

And he said like, perhaps agriculture.

And I didn't think at that time, it didn't dawn on me that people can study for agriculture and agriculture is like the base of food for all of us, right?

And then I said, where?

And then he mentioned for the first time this university, Zamorano, which was founded with some funds that were donated by the founder of the Standard Fruit Company, which eventually became, I think, Chiquita Banana, Zamzemorano.