Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Changes to my study programme 

Since I entered the university, I always been a critical person about the Chilean educational system. In chemistry and pharmacy, I hoped to find with something completely different, in particular about the curriculum (as I just entered when the new curricular program started)
Regarding my estudy programme, i would change the number of subject per semester, eliminating some seminars; sadly, over the week we have so many things to do that we need to sacrifice some subjects, witch i don't agree. The academic workload is too high, especially in the test's weeks, in which the teachers still do controls and graded seminars as usual, so at the end it’s worse for us.
About the study length, I don't complain, I find it appropiate and normal compared to similar careers. I like my faculty a lot, but the available space is smaller every time and it can't hold so much people; for example, in the test's weeks everyone wants a quiet place to study or table for lunch so you need to arrive early in the morning to secure some place or you will end eating on the floor. 
The use of technology in m,y faculty is common for advanced subjects, however buying the equipmentfor certain techniques is usually expensive, so we almost have no opportunity to operate them properly and learning how to use them.
The teaching methods are variable for each subject and teacher, there are more pedagogic teachers than others, for example the ones of microbiology. They teach the subject in a manner everyone can understand.
all this reasons don't let me see a technological advance in the science area in a long time.

Wednesday, 21 November 2018


My opinion

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What is your opinion about buying instead of adopting pet? what is your opinion about having an exotic pet at home?
In my opinion, I completely disagree selling and buying pets. Here in Chile is too common that the houses with pets doesn’t follow the legal or even minimum requirements so adults and baby animals can live in optimal conditions. Besides, there’s a lot of abandoned animals in the streets, which can be adopted without much trouble.

Even if I strongly agree for a responsible animal adoption (and not the sale of them), I don’t agree about having exotic or non-domestic animals as pets, such as mice, exotic birds, snakes, etc. Those animals belong to their habitats, and living in a house, they will not be taken care properly and even die. But, sometimes, those animals cannot live in their original habitats, and in those rare cases I agree that some people adopt them.

What is your opinion about recycling?
And speaking about habitats, I think recycling is a good idea but here in Chile there is still a lot to do, in recycling policies, monetary penalties for wrong use of ecologic containers and recycled products. For example, when we recycle in those garbage cans placed in public parks and squares, we know that the waste is dumped according to their type (plastic, paper, glass or aluminum cans), but we don’t know when are collected and how are they managed after.

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What is your opinion about the legalization of abortion in the 3 cases?
In an unrelated topic, some time ago I oppose abortion in any cases, but growing up I realized that there are different social realities, girls getting pregnant at age 12 or 13, girls that didn’t received any sexual education (unlike my school, in which it was taught since basic levels). After that, I now agree with abortion beyond the three causes, and anyone who wanted to do one should be legally allowed.


Monday, 19 November 2018

CARTOONS, ANIMES TO TV SERIES 

Resultado de imagen para escuela de detectivesCurrently I’m not watching any cartoon or anime, but when I was a little kid, I loved Detective School Q (in Japanese Tantei Gakuen Q) an anime about a group of students from Dan Detective School and their adventures and mysteries they had to solve in each episode. I remember that after school I turned on the TV and waited to be aired in Cartoon Network. I was a big fan, and I even learned the different openings it had.

Besides that, cartoons or anime never played a big role in my life, I watched a few and then I start doing something else. Also, I never read any comic nor manga, those never interested me and did not play any part of my childhood. I preferred to go outside and play with my friends. My university friends don’t like neither comics nor manga, we have other interests (and a lot to study) so we don’t speak about it.

We never watch TV with my family. I don’t live with them so when I go to their apartment, we do anything but watch TV, like eat dinner or even drink some beers and pisco sour. But with my boyfriend is different, we love the Netflix Marvel series (Daredevil, Punisher, Iron Fist – we love you Danny Rand!) and we spend entire days watching them. I’m waiting the holidays, so we can watch the new Daredevil season.

Wednesday, 7 November 2018


Post graduate studies

Regarding a postgraduate course, the truth is that I don't want to take one, I just to earn my degree in chemistry  and pharmacy and go work to the south, far away from Santiago. In the remote possibility that I wanted to take a postgraduate course, it would be hard for me to choose because, since I'm not interested, I don't have much knowledge about that or the area I could work with.

I know about the most common of the programs imparted by our faculty, which is the PhD in pharmacology. I know that is hard to get in and obtaining the degree, and that it takes a lot of time and dedication, but sincerely I have spent so much time studying (between bachelor program and my current undergraduate career) that I’m not interested in taking more time in my process as student. Also, I know several PhD students in different programs (chemistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutic sciences in the University of Chile), and most of them took too much time to finish their thesis.

If in any moment of my life I would be interested in taking a postgraduate program, it would be in southern Chile, and I would try to choose a program that allows me to work and study, something like a part-time MBA or even an online degree.