Changes To My Study Programme

The changes of a study program are not something that is taken lightly, in my case, I think that this decision was taken lightly only to be able to prove an engineering career in food. I think this because I have annual subjects that are not easy to pass and that are a prerequisite to enrol in other subjects. I think that this generates stress and that causes that some do not pass all the subjects to which they enrolled in the semester. This is undoubtedly totally wrong because the university education is already expensive and increase the years of study only make us have a big headache, which would end until we pay the debt.

So far I have taken an annual course and I failed. This semester I had to enrol in Physical Chemistry but I did not do it because it generated a clash of schedule. This happened because I had to take the annual course that I failed and generated a clash of schedule with Physical Chemistry. This would not have happened if my study program had been carefully planned, he said this because the previous semester I enrolled in all the subjects I could and even took a CFG but even so, I left every day early and I even had a day off. My best friend was in the same situation as me but he took less time because he wants to change his career and left every day at lunchtime.

I hope they change my program or increase the amount of study material, since there are so many subjects that have to be taken per semester that the mere fact of looking for extra material is time lost because the next day of insurance there is a control, next there is a laboratory and the next the delivery of a report. I think that I would not be so worried and I could read this material on the bus and more than 80% of the students would be passing any subject.

Summer Holidays

When I think of summer holidays always my first thought is the heat and the sea. This because my grandparents are from Antofagasta and practically I saw the sea. Then when classes finally end, I can do what I could not do during the study period, I do sports, go to the beach or go out running, like Antofagasta is a large city, I run in the along the coast to a beach called "Trocadero". Despite the heat, the sea breeze helps to withstand it.

When I was just a kid, at this holidays, we were going to the south like  Linares, Los Ángeles and my Favorite place Punta Arenas. We went over there mainly because all our relatives are there, we are the only ones who live in Santiago. Nowadays for summer holidays, my parents are very tired to make a trip of that magnitude, because the most of the times we made it by land, by the need of a car to mobilize in the cities.

When I was in high school, for the summer holidays, me with my friends of the school, we usually go to a very large beach called "Hornitos" (you can make an idea with its name), were a friend has a house and we go to stay for several days. We spent all day in the water and if we don´t, my friend of the house has four-wheelers and a buggy, and like the beach, it´s so very large (approximately one kilometre) he goes at full speed over the sand. I had great times there that I expect to keep doing every summer.

Addiction: From coffee and tea to drugs of abuse

Drugs are much more present in our lifes than we think, even if we don´t consume it. In a normal day in the way to your work, school or anywhere yo go daily, you could easily see in the streets or even the parks someone is consuming some kind of drug, whether legal or illegal, from just a couple of beers to smoking marihuana. Some people don´t difference who is smoking a simple cigarette and who is smoking marihuana, but in the most of the cases, who has tried one of each will recognize at the instant the defference. 

Mainly the smell that emanates, from marihuana is much more harder and more distinctive thatn the cigarette, also the way to grab the cigarette is different of the way to grab the paper of marijuana, grabing a cigarette it is like to do the symbol of piece, grabing the paper of marihuana it is like you hold something little between your index finger and thumb.

With this I could say that I tried more than once, but not too much because it produce a very relaxing sensation, and it is good that sensation, but i don´t like it so often, so I prefer to drink a couple of beers with friends from time to time for the week so heavy or to celebrate something.

In my opinion, the alcohol in the body makes a better feel that any other sustance, obviously drinking it in moderation because if you pass.. you would do things that you wouldn´t normally do and more on top you´ll not remember of it, so although this is not so good to your liver, this helps you get rid of a hard week or notice.Because of this, I can say that I have no addiction for anything, just if you tried something you have the duty to be aware of the effects and self.cares, as it is at your own risk.

On the other hand, "healthier" things like coffee I drink it just for study when I stayes awake at very late hours, for nothing more, so when I drink because I need too stay awake to study, coffee really keeps me awake, even after I´ve stoopped studying, so I go to bed "early" when it is morning.

Post Graduate Studies

Although some of us when we finish school dont know what to study, I think that I had a clear idea of what I wanted to be in the future and next to that I will need to have some post graduates studies, specifically post doctorates studies. For a scientists it´s the most important thing to have post graduate studies if you and your voice want to be recognized by your peers, so I thinked that one of the most recognized academic degrees is the Ph.D, so I started to investigate along all the possible path to get this academic degrees.

But first, I had to look the house of studies which I wanted to be for it, and by many recommendations from several different sides, I decided to look at the Universidad de Chile, thinking that at this university has stronger and developed this field than other universities in the country. Finally, searching in the internet, I found the title of the academic degree that just the name liked so much that I decided to reach it cost what it cost me, so it became my goal, not the last one but one of many. It´s title is called "Doctorate in Sciences, mention in Molecular, Cellular and Neuroscience Biology", the part that caught my eye where the "Neuroscience" part, this field has interested me since high school, but this degree adds the molecular and cellular biology that both sound so interesting that I thinked that this is the study perfect for me.

I said that this mention isn´t my last goal, because this is a way that I dreamed living here in Chile, but in a future after this, I plan to keep studying and investigating outside and reach others academic degrees in many other areas of science, because the focus of Chile isn´t research, this field is not so developed as I would like.

In these last days, I read an official publication of the university senade of the university of chile that I realy liked. Mainly the publication said that they were looking to create a new academic category of ostdoctoral researcher, in which they seek to incorporate about 400 researchers who carry out highly complex investigations at our university in various disciplinary areas. This made me happy because they are giving the importance that deserves the investigation in chile, and the researchers themselves are recognizing their work and effort.

My Future Job

Work is certainly not something to be taken lightly. since it is what allows us to maintain a decent life. Sometimes you should work at any job they offer because you no longer have money to pay off debts in general. That is why each person has a dream job according to the tastes he has, in my case, my dream job is to be able to work in a factory of chocolates or sweets abroad to be able to learn more novelties of the production of these. in Chile, only change the format, but the presentation of the product is rarely renewed. I would also like to return to Chile to tell my exploits to my family. bring them candy and gifts.

As for the salary, I would like it to be enough to fulfill my dream and not be short of money. the first step was to study food engineering to understand more about production processes. I hope to finish my career to find the job of my dreams. I do not care how long it takes me to find it, but I want to work in a chocolate factory or sweets and then retire with a store, selling chocolates or candy for those who work so hard.