English Language Challenges

Hello everyone!

As you know this will be our last blog, so I'll tell you about my experience in the English course this semester.

First of all, I feel that my experience learning English at the university has been quite good, I have learned some things that I didn't know before and I have practiced my pronunciation a little more. However, I wish there were more opportunities to speak English with my classmates, I feel that if the videos we have to record could be done in pairs, establishing a dialogue with this person, it would be much more entertaining and we could improve our pronunciation even more.

Secondly, I found the use of blogs quite convenient, I think the site is easy to use and I also feel that this type of activity encourages our creative side and helps us to learn new words and investigate how certain things are spelled.

Thirdly, although I feel that I have improved a bit in my English, I feel that I still have a long way to go to reach the level I want to reach. I would like to learn more words and get better at creating sentences in everyday conversations, because when I am in a conversation with another person in English, I manage to understand most of what the other person is talking about, however, when it comes to generating a response I draw a blank. I have planned to improve on this in the next semester and also to take some English course outside of the university later on.

Fourthly and lastly, apart from classes I usually use English when listening to songs and singing them in English, I have always been a big fan of music, and knowing some English helps me to understand the meaning of the songs of my favorite artists.

Thanks, until next time :3!

Changes to my study programe

 Hello everyone!

In this oportunity I will talk about I would change my study plan. I have never really questioned myself about what I would change about my program of study.

Actually my study programe is follows:

Within the subjects that I have already taken, most of them seem quite relevant, however, the subjects of social history and epistemology of social sciences seemed to me a little extra, I do not consider that they have contributed much in my training as a professional, therefore, I would add them as optional subjects and not as part of the mandatory subjects of the career.

With respect to the academic load I have to say two things, first, I feel that, being studying in an online context, I consider that 3 hours of classes is too much, because it tires the eyes and concentration is lost. Secondly, even though there are quite a lot of evaluations and I have little free time at the moment, I feel that the workload is quite adequate for the amount of subjects I am currently studying. 

Since I am studying online, the teachers make a greater use of technology than would normally be the case, since in synchronous classes they project videos, documentaries, audios, or other support materials that help me to better understand the subject they are teaching. For this reason, I consider that the current teaching method is quite good, since there is a lot of interaction with the students, which produces a more dynamic relationship and a greater desire to learn.

As I mentioned before, so far my university experience has been only through screens, therefore, I still do not know the faculty, so I can't give my opinion about its buildings or infrastructure.

That's all, thank you very much for reading, see you in the next blog!

Post Graduated Studies

Hello everyone!

In this blog I'll tell you about the future. What I plan to do when I finish my career?

I have thought about it a lot, and I have concluded that I would like to study a full-time either a master's or doctorate degree in clinical psychology, neuroscience area or criminology area at Yale University in United States.

I still can't decide in which of the three areas mentioned above I would like to specialize, as they all appeal to me in one way or another.

In the first place, clinical psychology interests me because I like the intimate relationship I have with each of my patients. In addition, I feel that many interesting things can be discovered by observing different people (with their different realities and life experiences) who have the same or similar disorders. Secondly, I find the area of neuroscience really amazing, since I love biology, especially how the brain works and all that is involved in its malfunction. Thirdly and lastly, criminology is within my options since, some years ago I started to watch videos of real police cases, and I was very interested in how everything related to this subject works, and how interesting and creepy the psychological profiles of some criminals are.

I would like to study at Yale because my father did a postdoctoral degree there, and I also like their study programs. Another reason to study in the United States is because I would like to go back to the country where I was born, because even though I was born and raised there during the first years of my life, my memories of that time are blurred, so with this experience of studying in one of the most important universities in the world, it should remain in my memory.

Thanks for reading this blog, until next time :3!