Changes to my study programme

To be honest, I don´t know in a perfect way the study programme of psychology. I mean I know the name of the subjects, but they are some of them that I just know that, and I have no idea about what is the subject about.

What I have heard from the persons that are on the other years of the career, is that psychology has a lot of workload, because we have to read a lot in every subject. Actually since I started the career I have think that sometimes the teachers are exploiting us haha but is just a joke.

Also I have heard that the people of psychology talks a lot about a programme renovation, because they don´t like that all of the subjects are almost just theory, and we don´t have the opportunity to practice the necessary. They believe that we have to start practicing since the firsts years.

About the teaching methods, based on what I have live in this semester, I think they are okey. In some subjects I think they are boring, because some teachers are just doing monologues. But in other classes I really have fun (philosophy and anthropology I love you, I am your fan)

Finally, about the tecnologhy and the faculty, I don’t have an opinion, because I just have one class in FACSO, so I don´t spend a lot of time in the faculty.

Winter Holidays

I really like to travel a lot. I haven´t been in a lot of places yet, but I have a lot of plans about traveling in the next years. Actually I have a list of all the places that I have to visit at least once in my whole life.  

I think all the places that I have in my list, would be great to visit in the Winter. I really love Winter, so that is not a problem to me.

On this Winter vacations, it would be awesome if I go to the south of Chile. The only places I have been in the south are Concepción and Temuco, but I want to meet all the south.

The way I want to do it is backpacking! And would like to do this adventure with two of my best Friends. I have never do it before, but I don´t think that it would be difficult for me, because I am scout since I have 12 years old, and in all this years I have learned about camping stuff and how to survive in the nature.

Finally, I don´t have plans about  studying in the Winter vacations. Right now I just want to rest and travel, I don´t want to know anything about texts or books.

An ideal Winter vacation would be one week to rest; watch netflix and eat chocolate all day. One week to work (to save money to travel) and other week to travel.

My favorite TV show

The Walking Dead <3!

Despite of what a lot of people have said that is super overrated, one of my favorite series of all times is “The Walking Dead”. The series is based on the comic writing by Robert Kirkman. It started in 2010 and continues until today, with 8 seasons.  I started to watch it in 2012 with my brother and even today, in 2017, we are waiting for the next season.

The Walking Dead is about a post-apocalyptic world, were zombies have invaded our planet. The series tells the story of Rick Grimes and his effort to survive with his family and friends. The entire story happens in United States.

The characters are variable; I mean as the time passed by, a lot of them leave the group, die, or new characters appear and join the group. From the first season a few of them are still alive, and I have to confess this; I have cried a lot of times with my brother because of the death of some characters that we love and died surprisingly.

I have two favorite characters: Glenn Rhee and Daryl Dixon, I’m in love with those guys.  One of them (SPOILER ALERT!) died the last season. His death was the most painful in all the seasons I have watched, I was really surprised and until today I can’t get over it. (I don’t want to say the name in case that you want to see the series).

Maybe it is a bit masochistic, but I believe that was my favorite chapter. I think it is, because it was the one that made me feel a lot of emotions. We knew that somebody was going to die, because the final chapter of the season before the death finalizes telling us that. So we had to wait for months to know who was the chosen one, and that made that my soul hangs by a thread for a long time.

Finally, I like to watch this series, because it is something that I share with my brother a long time ago, and I love to spend time with him. And also that I’m engaged with the characters and I have to know what is going to happen to them. 

Postgraduate Studies

If I think about postgraduates studies, I am not sure about what I want to do with that. I do not even know if I want to keep studying after finishing this career.

 But if I have to choose something to study after this career, I will choose something related to clinical psychologist or legal psychologist. If I choose the first one, I would like to do a course on clinical psychoanalysis with adults. I will choose this, because when I searched the courses that you can do after finishing the psychology career, it was the one that caught my attention, because I would like to work with adults and help them with their problems. I think most of the adults have lost the taste for the life; they are exhausted of the routine in their lives, so they get sick. Also I don´t really want to work with children, so adults are perfect to me.

I would like to study somewhere far from Chile. I have not thought about a particular place, but maybe United States, Spain, England or South Korea. Those countries caught my attention a lot, and even if I don´t study there I would visit them at least once in my life.

If I study this clinical course, I would like to do it in a regular learning way, because I don´t like the distance way. 

My Future Job

I am not 100% sure about the job I would like to have yet, but for now I have thought two options. The first one is work as a clinical psychologist, because one of the things that motivate me to study psychology was that I really want to help people to resolve their problems, make them feel better and listen to them.  

The second option that I have is work as a legal psychologist. I think it would be pretty awesome to get involved in all the law stuff, work with lawyers, investigate the psychologist profile of the suspects and help with the cases. Also I have thought to enter to the PDI, and work as a detective and as a psychologist.  I think I see myself in some years like a character of this typical crime series, like Bones, Criminal Minds and CSI, or maybe working as a psychologist in the program “Caso Cerrado” with Doctor Polo haha.

In both cases I would like to travel to the south of Chile and work and live there. I don’t think that I would travel a lot working as a psychologist, because I believe is a job that needs you to stay in one place. I mean, I can’t travel to another city or country and leave my patients or the case unsolved there.

Election Day

I think it is very important to vote, because it´s a right and a duty that all the citizens have.  That is why I want to vote in the elections of this year. I am excited in some way because it is going to be my first time voting in presidential elections.

My opinion about the electoral campaigns is that they are necessary in all the processes of the elections, because they are a way to inform people about the candidates and the things that they are proposing.

The qualities that a person should have to run for public positions are in general: social leadership, confidence, empathy with the people, altruism, reliable and having interpersonal relationship skills.

I have never considered to get involved in politics, because I don´t really like the political world. For me it is boring and I don´t really see myself in some years working in something like that. That doesn´t mean that I believe that it is not important to be informed about all this, on the contrary, I think it is very important, and I even think it is a duty that we all have.

About the electoral campaigns in my district, I don´t have a lot to say, because I am not really informed about it. I don´t think it is fine, so I want to change that and learn more about this stuff.

Someone I like to meet

SUGA<3

Last year a friend showed me the world of Kpop and Korean culture. At first I wasn´t very into it, but when I met the band BTS I really fell in love with all Korean stuffs.

I started to like BTS because every time I heard them I felt happy and full of energy, but someday I realized that not all the songs were like that. There were some songs that had a lot of anger, sadness, and a lot of emotions that come for someone very broke inside.

That person is Min Yoongi, better known as Suga. He is a Korean rapper, dancer and song writer. The members of the band say that he has a “Tsundere” personality, which means that he is someone who shows himself like a cold person, but in the inside he is very warm and needs a lot of affection.

What I like about Suga is that he truly loves the music and is very engaged with it and his fans. But what I really admire about him is the capacity to transmit emotions with the lyrics of his songs and the way he sings them, listening to him makes me get the shriver.

He has won a lot of awards with BTS, but I want to mention two: last year they got more views in one of their videos, beating “Gangnam Style” (the Korean video with more views in youtube) and recently they won two awards that made them cry (and that made me cry):  best album and song of the year in the Soompi awards.