by Eugenia Torricelli, Bachelor in Management (BSc) Alumna
High school is one of those phases in life that, just when you finally begin to appreciate its reassuring routine of classes, deadlines and extracurricular activities, suddenly comes to an end. One day you are still a student, and the next you find yourself holding a diploma in your hands, wondering what comes next.
That moment can feel exciting, but also unsettling. You start looking around, considering all the possibilities ahead of you, hoping for a sign that will suddenly make everything clear. Something that makes you think: Yes, this is exactly what I want to do.
The truth is, life rarely works that way.
You earned a diploma. What’s next?
My name is Eugenia Torricelli, and I am an Alumna of the Bachelor in Management (BSc) as well as a former ESCP Student Ambassador. Looking back at my own experience, I realised there are usually two very realistic scenarios when people decide to continue studying after high school.
Scenario 1
You have always known what you wanted to do. Maybe you dream of working in fashion, architecture, agriculture, or any other field you have been passionate about for years. Your ambitions are clear, so you apply to the best university you can find in that area and work tirelessly to be accepted. If it does not work out the first time, you try again somewhere else, determined to follow that path.
Scenario 2
You have many interests, many ideas, and too many possibilities to choose just one immediately. Instead of taking a definitive step straight away, you decide to give yourself more time to explore, discover new environments, and understand what the world has to offer before limiting your options too early.
I definitely belonged to the second group.
Many of the people I met during my years at ESCP Business School belonged to that category too. Some already had ambitious plans for the future, others were connected to family businesses, while some simply had a strong personal vision they wanted to develop further.
But there was one thing that connected us all: we chose not to stay within our comfort zones. Instead, we decided to spend three years moving across countries, discovering new cultures, and seeing what else the world could offer us.
Explore the world. And be ready to grow
Would that experience completely change our direction in life? Or would it simply reinforce the ambitions we already had? There is no universal answer to that question.
What ESCP gives you, however, is the opportunity to understand who you are outside the environment you have always known.
If you decide to join this international journey, you are not simply throwing yourself into the unknown. One thing is certain: you will experience different cities, different ways of thinking, and different cultures. You will learn how to adapt, communicate, and collaborate with people from all over the world.
Almost without noticing it, you will also develop skills that become essential both professionally and personally: adaptability, proactivity, time management, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and cooperation, among many others.
Discover yourself. In a good company
The experience changes you in ways you do not immediately realise. And perhaps the best part is that it happens naturally, while sharing everyday life with classmates from different countries and backgrounds.
You slowly become used to the constant movement between cities, languages, and cultures. At the same time, with every new experience, you also become a little closer to understanding the kind of person you want to be.
During those years, you build knowledge, friendships, and experiences that shape your future far beyond the classroom.
And learning does not stop once lectures are over. Your classmates teach you just as much as your professors do. Through their stories, ambitions, and experiences, you begin to see the world differently.
Someone may tell you about growing up across multiple countries because of their parents’ international career. Someone else may show you that it is possible to combine ambition, independence, and personal life in ways you had never considered before.
Little by little, their perspectives start shaping your own.
And perhaps, somewhere along the way, you unexpectedly discover a passion for finance, entrepreneurship, consulting, or something you had never even considered before arriving.
That is probably the greatest value of an international experience: not only becoming more prepared professionally, but also discovering possibilities for yourself that you did not know existed yet.
So after your diploma, take a chance. Explore the world a little. And discover who you could become.
Don’t wait any longer; ESCP’s European campuses will help you broaden your horizons while maintaining internationally acclaimed academic standards. Discover more about the Bachelor in Management (BSc) today.
