Friday, November 10, 2017

English on the University

I have always like English language pretty much because it's the tool to understand a big part of the world these days: music, movies, TV series, knowledge, everything is transferred and shared in English. It is like the universal language.
The english class that I'm studiyng now have helped to restart the systematic way that I had on school to learn English. I appreciate the activity of making blogs because writing and giving a verbal form to my thoughts help me to express myself better. Many people say that they are not good to learn English, but I think they really help you.
The aspect I need to improve in my English is the vocabulary, the number of words I know, or rather said, remember the words that I need in the right circumstance because I feel like I know several words but I forget them in the moment I need them. I think is just practice and not becoming nervous in the moment I talk with someone.
Outside the class I use a lot of English to read cientific papers for some classes, to understand the series that I see (now I'm watching "Stranger Things"), understand the music I love, and talk stupid things with my brothers. Also it have gave me great instances. I remember when I went to the Ollantaytambo valley on PerĂº, I took a train to the town below Macchu Picchu and I could talk with a Swedish guy the entire trip while my father and brother were focusing on understand a little bit of what we were talking.
Now a random image of a lion 100% real no fake.

So that's it, cya next time :V.

Friday, November 3, 2017

Changes to my study programme

Our condition as students doesn't exlude us from being critics of our career. Some could argue that we are not as experienced as them, or that we are too young to make proposals, but every stage in a process could (and should) be improved for the people who is inmersed in it.
Although I'm just in my 2nd year of career, I have seen some things that could be better.
First, the teachers usually are people who knows a lot of the things they teach, but they don't know how to teach. Having a doctorate doesn't make you a good pedagogue, so I would make them all take at least a year of pedagogy classes, and I would benefit the ones who take 2 or more years of it.
Second, the teaching methods should occupy better the very campus, like explain the southern Chile`s flora with the little "forests" that we have here.
Third, we need more and our own faculty facilities. Right now, my faculty rent a big part of the facilities that it uses to Agronomy faculty. Cute right? So we are paying to our very university to do and have classes. It's not a joke. And the things that we have, like the computer where I'm writing this blog, are few.
I don't like beeing ungrateful, so I will mention some of the things that I wouldn't change for anything. The field practices are the best. Is one of the things that differentiate our career in the University of Chile from the same career (Forest Engineering) of other universities, and other careers of the same University of Chile. They could improve, like the feeding, but I think they are OK.
And last but not least, the best thing of all: the diversity of people that you can find in this faculty and the external facilities.

English on the University

I have always like English language pretty much because it's the tool to understand a big part of the world these days: music, movies, T...