My career

Psychology. Why did I choose this one? Was exactly what I wanted for my future? Am I taking the right path? A lot of questions, one answer: I don't know.

When I was at school I thought it was a good way to help this world, you know, psychologists things... listening to people, helping them relieving their pain and suffering, etc. Now I'm on my third year on the career and I'm figuring out that maybe, just maybe, this way it's just not how good I thought it was. Maybe sometimes people have so many other problems that the just don't have the money or the time to go to a therapist or maybe that they simply don't trust in the help a psychologist could bring.

Although it was my first option at the moment of deciding my career, I'm not sure if it was what I expected. I'm on third year and I haven't had any practical experience and I'm not really sure if I could develop appropiately at the professional ambit. Anyway, I'm still here and I'm finishing it, alive or dead. Nah, just joking but I think I have to give it a chance first to see if I really like and if I'm going to be helpful for society.

The best movie

Honestly I'm not good at watching movies, I prefer reading a book or watching a serie. 

However, if I'd have to talk about a favorite movie I'd surely talk about Batman trilogy. I just fell in love with the story when I saw it. It's just that it isn't the tipical comercial movie with a ridiculous script and overacted scenes. I don't really know anything about Nolan but I'm sure that the fact that he directed the movie is involved in the quality of the characters. For example, the joker isn't the typical bad guy that does things just for money and power, unlike that he commits crime because he doesn't like the society in which he's living. He seems to be just tired of individualism and materialism and decided to make people figure out that they're living in a society. 

Another important example for me is Bane. At first sight you could see evil itself. He seems to be the bad guy that wants to destroy a city just for fun. But it isn't as simple as that, the movie shows you the story of Bane, his childhood and his human side. I think it's a great thing in a movie by these days, it makes you think and go beyond the evident.  

English Language Challenges

This is my last blog for the subject and I have to talk about English language.
Since I was at school I have ever liked English classes, now at university it is not the exception. I think having this subject it's been a great help for me, my career demands me the capability to understand papers, books, essays, etc. in English and what I´ve learnt in classes it´s been very useful for me at the moment. Blog sessions have made me think and have the capability to express my ideas about anythin, I think it's a good teaching tool.

Although I don't have the need (nor academic or professional) to speak English, that's something I'd like a lot to be able to do in the future. I think besides being a highly necessary tool in these times, speaking English opens a lot of gates to a new culture, from the pleasure of helping a foreigner to the ability to understand a movie or a song. 

After finishing this subject (by the way I hope I approve it) I think I would like to take an English course, but this time putting emphasis on speaking. I think to this day it is my weak point, even when reading it´s easy for me, I feel not prepared to have a conversation with someone in English. 

Finally, I would like to have the opportunity (and the knowledge) to go abroad and experience working as a psychologist in English. Not just for listening people tell me their problems in other language, but to understand how other people from another culture feel and suffer.

Psychology

On my third year of Psychology I think there are some things that have to be changed to make the career better. First of all, I think there are a couple of subjects that are useless, an example of this is "Procesos Psicológicos Básicos", certainly it doesn't have the best professor but not just about that. The subject doesn't seem to be so connected to the Chilean context and it's almost totally based on American research. It doesn't give you a critical perspective about the contents and almost the whole subject it's just about reading and answering multiple choice tests. 

I think the workload is not so bad, but there is a period on the semester in which you basically have nothing to do and there's another period that is like hell. I would like so much that in a future, the workload were more homogeneous.

About the faculty facilities there's not much for me to say. I think one of the few things that are not so good about this is the availability and the size of the classrooms. 

Technology and teaching methods are just fine. This is not a career like Engineering or something like that, you just have to read and write a lot, so a bunch of PC's and internet connection it's fine. 

I think some of the weak points of my career are the evaluation methods, it is boring to have to write an essay for a subject that you don't like about a topic that you don't necessarily like. And it's always the same, sometimes I think university want students that learn to write papers or essays more than students that train to be an input for society.