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Blog 5: Changes to my study program

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Hi again! I'm Ivan and I will talk about my opinion about the study program :) First, I am barely at my third semester of the career, so, I only have that experience to make my opinion. I think that the curriculum of the career is good, because it has a great variety of things, especially the psychological currents, there are universities that specialize in one or two currents, but in the university of Chile we can specialize in whatever we want, even if they tend to one current. About the workload, I think that will be good if they focus a little bit more in optional works, maybe for one student an essay is okay, but for another is hard to express they opinion and would prefer a report, and the same thing to the length and the workload of the class, maybe having tests in different subjects of the class would be more motivating to the students. The thing that I am like a “hater” (not so critical, but it makes me angry) is about the capacitism of the university, because they a...

Blog 6: English Language Challenges

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Hi everyone! I'm Ivan, and this is my last post of my blog First of all, I want to thanks all the people who build this classes, from my partners to the teacher, to make this classes comfortable, and help me to express myself more, even if I wasn't able to be in there every time. Starting the classes, I was frightened of not being able to learn or express my English like I wish to, but the bond with my partners helped me to be able to do that (or that's what I feel). Writing these blogs are quite difficult to me also, not because I can't express myself in words but I'm frighten on expressing my thoughts to more people, because i had bad experiences for doing that, despite of that I found a safe space there to finally do it. At the same time, I think my insecurities stop me to talk more often in English, and I need to improve that, luckily I'm surrounded of pretty people who help me to break these boundaries, and be able to talk and go out my comfort zone, throug...