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Blog N°7: Changes to my study programme

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  When it comes to think about the changes that i would do on the psychology career the first thing that it comes to my mind is the small amount of practical instances that we had over the career. I think that we study a lot about history of the discipline, that's ok, we had a lot of introductory subjects and we learn a lot about philosophy, sociology, anthropology, biology and more, and when it comes the moment to put in practice something it is very difficult, because we had a lot of theoretical subjects but not enough practical ways of learning. Another thing that i would like to modify are the ways that the university evaluate us, but i know that this is a thing that compromise the whole education system. Anyways, we had a lot of multiple choice tests and that kind of test cannot evaluate right topics like philosophy or subjects that involve subjective opinions or knowing about historical and long terms processes.  Finally, about the infrastructure Facso need a lot of chan...

Blog N°6: Time

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  Okay let me get this right... so you are telling me that we can travel to the future?! That seems impossible, but if it's not, i would probably travel like just 100 years to the future, if the earth still exists hahaha. And i say just 100 years because if we look back in history and read about the technological development, there are some studies that says that in the past century the human inventions, the technology has advanced on giants steps compared to all human history! so i believe that 100 years by now, and looking backwards how fast the artificial intelligence has advanced, the human beings would be like real cyborgs! i imagine people with their phones integrated into their bodies and living together with different kinds of robots that probably will help us with daily tasks. I personally think that the ethical conflicts with the I.A will be very real and more and more complicated as long as the time pass. However, if in the future, the government can provide us with the ...

Blog N°5: My future job

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  When it comes the time to think about the future, personally it is very exciting but also makes me feel a lot of uncertainty. I've got a lot of interest and disciplines that a like, currently I am studying psychology, and at the short-medium-future i would like to work at a public school as a educational psychologist. Despite I have a lot of critics to the educational system, and with that the role to be played as a psychology, i would like to work with students and their families, and make them feel part of a real community, a community that actually cares about the families that build it. I would like to create dialogue situations where the people of the school can feel listened, and understood, regardless of whether it is through personal interviews, group interviews, or forums, classes, etc. Anyway, that is the short-term future, but i would love to study a PhD in educational psychology, maybe in Spain, or even better, in Brazil. I think that in the future I'll definitel...

Blog N°4: Why i like comedy series

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Recently, HBO released the long waited special chapter from Friends called: Friends the Reunion, an special show, like a documentary, where the casting, the legendary "Friends" meets again and talk about the show, the bloopers, their opinions and feelings about the show, and how they forge so tight friendship bonds that they become really close friends besides being just coworkers. Personally, I love Friends and I've watched it like 3 times, but I don't know if it's my favorite sitcom, and I've seen many others, but this time the special got me thinking a lot. Let me explain.   Honestly, when I have free time to watch series on Netflix, Amazon, or any other platform, I like to have a comedy show or sitcom for the moments that I just want to relax, and not to think too much, and besides that kind of show I like to have one that make me think, that shows interesting drama and topics. The point is that if you make me choose between those kind of shows, I pr...

Blog N°3: When psychology meet education

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         When a i was younger, like 15 or 16 years old, i had several critics to the teaching system in my school. I remember i hate the dynamics on class, the several structured protocols, and that all the test was sometimes so confusing and the multiple alternative test was so ambivalent. In spite of i liked the psychology by those years, i didn't know for sure what was the role of the psychologist that used to work on the school, indeed, i didn't even liked her. Things like that made the school very boring and nonsense sometimes to me, but after all, i fondly remember a few teachers that had a big impact on me, on the way a think, and how i see the world. After i finished the school, i was very sure that i wanted to study psychology, because at that time i wondered very often how the brain and the mind works, and how the personality, our experiences, or our way to communicate, has an influence on our behavior and the relations that we have with other peo...

Blog N°2: One of the most powerfull concerts that i've been...

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  On march of the 2015, i was having a desperate feels to go to the Lollapalooza, but the ticket was, as always, too expensive. Fortunately, one of the artist that i used to listen a lot these years that was coming to Lollapalooza Chile, decided to do a Sideshow in Teatro Caupolican, so i didn't think it twice and whit the saved money that i had i bought 2 tickets. I'm talking about Robert Plant.  Robert Plant is the lead vocals of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin. I started to listen Led Zeppelin thanks to my dad, because he told me that he loves this band when he was younger. I remember he told me something like "hey son, come here, listen this song, you really should listen to this band and their early albums if you like rock music" and was sincerely shocked, i fell in love with Led Zeppelin instantaneous. Actually, their no longer together as a band, but Robert Plant and Jimmy Page still do music. So, obviously, i went to the concert with my dad. He had never ...

Blog 1: A country you would like to visit...

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  Hello everybody! In this post I will tell you about one of my favourite countries: Brasil. Brasil is the biggest country in South América. Its capital is Brasilia, and their main language is Portuguese. I like brasil because many reasons. I love their music, like bossanova and brasilian zamba for example, I feel great when I play songs from Caetano Veloso or Chico Buarque. I am a Barista and I drink Arabic coffee very often, daily indeed, and the Brasilian coffee is one of my favourite types of beans. Fortunately, I had visited the country the last year and I had an awesome week. The tourist attractions are impressive, like the Cristo Redentor, Pão de Açucar, the beaches at Rio and the University do Rio de Janeiro are great places to visit, I definitely would visit those places again, and many others in different cities, for example, I would love to do some trekking and navigate on some enabled zone in the Amazonas river, especially now that I learned Portuguese last semester...