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When I was a teenager I had a lot of expectations of how my life was going to be when I graduated from high school and how was going to be in college, but not everything turns out as we plan. I used to listen what others wanted for me, but now I know that only I know what is best for me. Nowadays I can say that I am where I want to be. I think that the curriculum of my career is very complete, I guess that is why I chose this university. In the first two years you learn about social Sciences and psychology in general and then, the final years of the career, you can choose your own courses in order to follow and specialize in a certain branch of psychology. Those are part of our compulsory subjects, but in addition, we must take co-curricular courses of sports or art/cultural, if you do not take them you cannot graduate. I feel that psychology career extension is not that long, but I still have left 4 years to complete it. The workload is not so heavy and it’s a career where you got

I think that 2020 has been very difficult for everyone. The year started well for me, there were days where I could spend time with my family and friends, but since mid-February everything took a turn and we’ve experienced things that we had never lived before. I live with my mom, my dad and 2 older sisters and, fortunately, we have a balanced family connivance. We have a good relationship, there is a lot of love and support between each other, but recently someone very important to us passed away and it hasn’t been easy. This made me realize that the first thing I want to do post-quarantine is see the rest of my family and hug them. In these extreme scenarios is when we realize that we are an individualistic society and some of our selfish actions have consequences in other people. We can improve our habits, solidarity, respect and many other aspects, so I want to think optimistic about the future of the pandemic and the future itself. My studies always make me feel a little bit

Hello everyone! Today I am going to talk about the future of my studies. Yesterday I was talking about this with my parents, I told them that after I finish my career I want to do a magister in the area of psychology I end up liking the most. The reasons to do the major is because in the university where I am currently studying you don´t graduate with a specialty, you are just a general psychologist. On an old blog I said my ideal job is to be in the social/community area, so the course would help me to learn more about this branch and be a good professional. I would like to study abroad, but I think it would be very difficult to me. I am very close to my family and friends, my happiness and mental stability depends on lot in them, so I have to grow up more as an independent person to have de guts to study outside Chile. Social interaction is very important to me so I would like to do a part-time course, in that case I would have time to learn and also have time for sightseeing the c

Hi!  When I was in freshman year I was obsessed with the TV show “Criminal minds”. The plot of this series is about a FBI team that works on finding serial killers based on their personality profile and since then I have wanted to become a psychologist. At first I wanted to be a forensic psychologist, because the show had some characters that work on that and I found it a really fun job, but then I started studying psychology at college and now I like more the social/community area. I am not saying that I don’t want to work in the forensic area but I think that I want to know more about other branches of psychology and then choose wisely. I would like to do this job because I think that in our Chilean society mental health is taken as something not important or like is our personal responsibility, but I believe that we need to learn that some mental issues appear because of the productive and constantly competitive system that we live in. For this kind of job, professionals need to b

Hello!! I really like going to the cinema, is a very fun activity, especially when you do it with people that you love spending time with. I think that the idea is really cool to break the daily routine we are always living in.  But actually, I don’t go very often to the movie theater. I never read the cinema listing, so I’m not informed about new releases, I think that even sometimes I go to the cinema just for the idea of going and pick whatever seems more interesting. I feel that when you go to the cinema you don’t just go there to only watch a movie; you have to be early to buy the tickets, buy some food (cinema and food are really associated), watch commercials and other movie trailers, then speak about the plot and a lot of others things. The last movie I saw in the cinema was Jojo Rabbit, which was nominated to 6 categories in the Oscars this year, and even won one. The plot is about a ten-year-old boy who lives in nazi Germany during the last years of WW2, his imaginary frien

Hi everyone! Since I was a child I’ve loved traveling, but I think the holidays I liked the most were when I got the chance to go to London. In 2017 my parents told me we were going on a tour to Spain and because in 2016 I won a scholarship my parents were able to save money and include one more destiny to the tour: UK. I went there with my nuclear family, my mom, my dad and both of my sisters. We stayed  in a Muslim neighborhood,  from February 1st to February 7th ,  and  I felt very excited about that because my family and I have Palestinian ascendency and, on top of that, it had really good location (near the subway). We went to a lot of touristic places, but my favorites were the London bridge, the British museum, the Big Ben, the London eye, the Buckingham palace and when we took a train and went to Edinburgh for a day. I think the reason it’s been the best holiday so far is because I always wanted to go there, I really liked a band originally from the UK and since then I fe