ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

hello everyone, this is the last blog of the semester and I'm feeling a bit melancholic so I warn you that it's full of sentimentality.
I never thought I would end the semester this way, on a more personal side and being totally honest, it wasn't in my plans for us to have a strike and miss so many classes and I regret having lost that experience, I know it may sound selfish but it would be hypocritical not to acknowledge it. On the other hand, I am happy with the work that was achieved, I am proud of the struggle of my classmates because despite losing classes, there were people who were really always present and did not stop participating.
If someone asks me about my experience at the university, I would say that I never imagined anything like it, but that does not mean that I regret it, on the contrary, I just wish I would have had more preparation.
i know i am critical of many things, but i still treasure the university and the people i met there. i have had the opportunity to meet more people and learn from them, and i will always be grateful for that. 

I didn't like it at first, of course, because I had English for the first time in fourth or fifth grade and learning the colors at that age was very boring, plus I didn't like that so many qualities were attributed to it and other languages were looked down upon. for example, I complained about the importance given to English and we didn't even know Mapudugún, so I started to reject it. but now that i have had a good teacher and have been able to interact better with the subject, i feel that i am starting to like it. maybe the reasons why i got excited about it are not acceptable. i don't want to learn english because it is the most spoken language or because it opens doors (in reference to earning money) or because it can lead me to a better future.

I still can't learn well, although I have to do more of my part to do it, I don't think I will learn if I don't practice and force myself to talk about it.
One of my biggest problems is the embarrassment and good the lack of knowledge about grammar and writing. I really don't know much about English but I hope to find the time, lose my shame and manage to speak the language.

in the end, my dream would be to be able to sing in English as it would mean that I would be losing two fears. To do this, I practice at home and in the shower, sing as much as I can in English and read the lyrics of the songs to learn words, I also watch series and movies in English because it helps me to get my brain used to the language.

                                         MY IDOL <3

CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

Hello everyone, this time I will tell you about my career, the curriculum and what I would like to change about it.

Sociology is a career in decline, at least everyone knows the truth in that, the labor field is increasingly null, job opportunities are accompanied by precariousness or in the opposite case, are accompanied by dishonest activities and favors from acquaintances. In this field, the academy usually disfavors recent graduates, leaving them without support and adrift in a sea of job uncertainty. For example, if it turns out that the academy has taken pity on you because of your constant work and effort while you were studying, they may give you a space in the narrow labor field in exchange for demanding a series of publications with constant material that does not give the space for professionals to carry out more thorough research and for the results to be more profound and practical.

As a consequence, the phenomenon that has led the career to decline, there is an incessant production of invisible and unprofitable knowledge that fails to be disseminated at its maximum expression and does not serve any specific purpose other than to continue to articulate new theses that lead future generations to the same paradigm.

 The curriculum contemplates the history of different periods such as classical and contemporary, the same applies to the branches of sociological theory, and also includes branches of statistics, qualitative and quantitative research, research methodology, political, economic and cultural sociology, social psychology, economics, English, etc. All these subjects are distributed by content and their relation with the basic knowledge to advance semester by semester. they are divided in 8 semesters and 2 of these belong to practical work and deepening so the career in total lasts 5 years (assuming that you do not drop any course and that you pass all the courses, however this is difficult, due to the little organization that exists within the faculty for the taking of courses.

On the other hand, the academic load and breaks seem to me to be super poorly managed, especially in the return to classes, last year in virtual classes, we obtained the privilege of a week of rest due to the use of computers and screens in excess, this benefit It was granted with some regularity, more or less every month and a half, and personally I was quite grateful for it, it gave me the time to catch up, study or read, or simply relax and lower my stress levels. On the other hand, with the experience of normal classes, the pressure and the lack of time are very demotivating. not everyone has the same rhythms and you can't give more than you give up. I think that one of the things to change would be the idea that the requirement has to do with the amount of work and not the quality of it.

To talk about methodology, I think it should be very particular, since each teacher has his or her method and conditions for granting knowledge. some are not fit to form in the best way since they fall into conservatism or sin of philistines. so each class is very different from another and there is no established order on teaching.

 Regarding the use of technologies, I have very little to say and that is because I have not had experiences very close to these. however, the wifi is bad. it's supposed to have better coverage and it turns out it can't be used. on the other hand you do not have a good telephone signal, so even if you use your own resources it is difficult to access the internet.

and finally, the facilities, at least the ones I have seen, further dazzle a profound difference in terms of departments and income, so much so that there are very well-equipped and ultra-beautiful classrooms, but it does not have the capacity to teach hybrid classes. as well as there are abandoned buildings where mice and pigeons nest. there are rooms that flood and freeze with the cold.

And speaking of stocks, it is worth mentioning the non-existence such as the campus dining rooms, which have a very limited number of microwaves and the total lack of places to eat or sit down for lunch. the lack of roofs and warm places to shelter from the cold or rain or provide good shade in the summer. the lack of ventilation that forces us to die of heat in the summer or freeze in the winter

I sincerely love my career, although it may not seem so from all the criticism, but if I had an idea of ​​how precarious it would become, I think I would have given up studying this career, I think I could perfectly learn it by myself at home