Sofia, who had been waiting to borrow a book, overheard from the hallway. Later, she sat with Mateo in the cafeteria. “You know,” she said, “in my business program, they drill us on the ‘five-second rule.’ If a document’s cover page is messy or missing, the executive assumes the content is too. It’s a psychological trigger. A clean portada signals competence before they read a single word.”
Mateo’s paper had none of that. The first page of his document was page one of the introduction. No title. No name. No date. portada de trabajo universidad
Mateo stared at the rejected form.