Aparty corridor is an elongated and special place where there is always a good mood. A place in which, from Monday to Friday, the coffee machine does not rest. It is also where Miran’s best memories at CERN are based.
Miran is currently living in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where Brane Mozetič, a poet and the director of the Slovenian Literature Centre of the city, was born in 1958. He wrote a poem entitled, There are things you can’t say, and that is what happens to Miran when it is time to talk about future dreams.
“An astronaut” is what a friend of his would say, but there is no answer for what he would like to be when he grows up. Not yet. As John Lennon used to sing, let it be. Miran prefers to stay down here. He is now working as a development engineer at RLS, a Slovenian company specializing in the design and manufacture of magnetic encoders.
Before this, he was a CERNie because in September 2019 he started an internship. He was part of the Configuration, Quality, Risk and Sourcing team of the HL-LHC Project, and he also belonged to the party corridor. He remembers fondly to walk down that corridor and to see the faces of the people thinking on the other side of the open doors.
He still remembers in detail a rainy day, one with the typical rain of the saddest scene of any drama film. Miran was walking down from building 112 to the main entrance, and a stranger’s car stopped next to him. “A long way to the main entrance, right?”, said the unknown CERNie. “Yes”, Miran replied. “Just jump in!”, the stranger offered him, and they drove together all the way down.
From those days as a CERNie, he also reminds how much he learnt at the professional level. In addition to his daily work tasks, he and his colleagues occasionally read and made presentations about books related to quality (in terms of engineering). It was an initiative of his supervisor to share fresh knowledge, and to keep it in constant motion.
Miran feels very lucky to have spent six months at CERN, where he was able to be very close to an impressive machinery that works thanks to the people. Those people who think and work hard in their offices, the CERNies that make incredible things happen, while having a good time in this international environment. It was six months full of great moments, nice conversations and good company.
So were the ski club and the violin encounters. Since Miran plays the violin in an Irish punk rock band, he decided to try an open jam session in Geneva. He only attended once and, now, he wishes that he went more times. But often we have to “be left to the wind”, as Mozetič wrote.
Miran had studied a bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, from 2014 to 2017, with two Erasmus experiences in between: the first one in Kraków (Poland), and the second one in Prague (Czech Republic). Then, he took a master’s degree in Mechatronics and Laser Technology at the University of Ljubljana.
Just as he enjoyed his internship at CERN, his two Erasmus, his time at university, his days in high school, and at primary school, Miran is enjoying his first days in what is now his new job. He just wishes to be happy.
As in the party corridor, all doors are open and life will take us anywhere. Even for the future dreams, “there will be an answer. Let it be”.