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.