martes, 29 de noviembre de 2016

Changes to my Study Programme


I am a second year student of Antropology in Universidad de Chile.
My career has two "periods" of courses, the first two years all the class has to take the same courses, and then in the third year we have to choose a major to specialize in. There are three options, social antropology, archeology and biological antropology. The first two years are supposted to give a common knowledge for all the students, it's also supposted to give some introduction to the three specialities. 
In this two years I coursed in this university, I have noticed some things I would like to change in the curriculum. The principal problem that I see in tje curriculum is that the objectiive of the first two years is to introduce us to our major, but in reality all the classes (or most of them) are only useful to the students that are going to specialize in social antropology, there are a couple classes that are useful to archeologists, so they are not really left out, but there are almost no classes that can be useful for biological antropologists. Im in the second semester of my second year in this university and I want to take my major in biological antropology, but I feel like im going totally unprepeared to the major, because I have barely had classes of this area in two years. Two years! 
In adition to that, we have to take classes in the faculty of medicine, because here there are no enough facilities for biological antropologists to work in, so I guess the university is not really prepeared to give a good education to the people taking this major.














Summer Holidays

In summer vacations people usually get out of the city they live in and go to a beach or some place nice to avoid the heat, but I don't really like to do that. Usually I go to the beach for maybe one week and then spend all the rest of the summer vacations in Santiago, city where I live and study.
This summer is not going to be very different, I will go to Valdivia in february for a week, but then I'm staying in Santiago for the rest of the summer. I'm going with a couple of friends from university, so it'll be really fun to see each other without worrying about our studies and all that stuff.
The rest of this summer vacations I'm planning to work. Now I'm working in a candle store in a mall. My boss already gave me a lot of shifts in January, so I'll be busy working and making money to save for the future. Well, selling candles is not really difficult, and the shifts doesn't take too much of my day, so I'll be sleeping and going out with friends too, I work and study at the same time, so being on vacation, in spite if working all summer, will be very relaxing. 
I will be able to read all the books I couldn't read during this semester, I had no time to do anything very fun, because of all the classes I took and working all weekend, so I'm really looking forward to this summer vacations and for this semester to end.

















Someone I'd Like to Meet

Someone I would really like to meet is Hermione Granger, from the book series Harry Potter.
I know she's not real, but since I was little she's been one of my role models.
Shes a witch born in the United Kingndom, she's doughter of two muggles, people that are not able to do magic, both of them were dentists. She had large teeth when she was little and studies more than any of the characters in the whole series.
I really admire her inteligence, well, I admire the hard work she does to be inteligent, because she makes a great effort to have all this knoledge, is not a talent she had since she was born, it's a talent that she made herself.
In the books she's always the one that does the intelligent thing, without her Harry would have died in the first book. In fact, Harry would have survived none of the years he spent on Hogwarts without her.
I would also like to meet Harry Potter himself. I don't think he's a character that I can really "admire", because almost  all of  his archievments were thanks to his good luck and his friends, but he was my hero when I was little and he represents a big part of my childhood.
I would like to meet all the characters in this book series bcause it is my ultimate favorite. I know is not really "good literature", but I cannot picture my childhood without this books and all of it's characters.