Changes to your study programme

I remember the first time I'm enter this university, I was excited of everything. the first time we did Laboratory techniques I was fascinated wearing the lab coat and all the Laboratory instruments.
Think about what can be change of the university and my career in this moment it's a bit difficult, because I've been here for only 8 months and I have not seen the university completely, but if we compare with other universities always will appear something to change.

The university provides a good training in chemistry, mathematics, biology and everything in general and the teachers are good, some are boring because only talk and don't do a dynamic class but always are Willing to help, so if we talk about quality i think we are in one of the best.

Talking about the infrastructure, i think it have the basics, laboratories are well and do they work, we have and library and Computer room available all day. But many things can still be changed, for example, the lab can renovate his facilities such as furniture, instruments, etc. It could be create a casino to not depend on the faculty of dentistry, amongs other.

About changes of my career i don't know much about it, because i'm only in the second semester and i haven't had any food engineering subject yet, but the center of food engineering students was talking about change the actual subject of administration, so i think there are many things that will change in the future.

In these years we can see everyday appear new technology devices that make study easier, so everytime and every generation will talk about changes that can be done and the work of the university will be adaps to this new eras If it want to continue to be considered one of the best.

English language challenges

What i think about learn english at university? In this moment lots of ideas come to my mind. I remember the Qualifying test at the beginning of the first semester, the time when the blogs system was introduced and I was worried because i didn't have idea about what write, the exposition we did about something related with our career and the final exam. In the second semester i think it's was different because make blogs was easier and record videos was fun.

The use of blogs was a new activity for me, because in school i made letters, posters, videos, I read books but never try using a web page.
at first was complicated because I did not know how start the blogs and what to write , but little by little it was becoming in something easy and fast to do.
in this moment i think the difficulty consists in use diferent verbs and ways to express an idea.

I know i have to fix lots of aspects about my english, like the pronunciation, Speak fluently for long periods and hear correctly what others say. if i have to think in ways to solve this come to my mind....try to talk and practice with other person frequently. To do this I could try pay for a course or travel to a foreign country with English as main language(If the possibility appears).

Honestly I'm very surprised about the frequently I use english outside University, when i use internet and search specific thing the mostly time appear in english, when i play videogames they are in english, when i read the information of food, supplement and everything in general are in english. The only thing that has not been presented is talk with an english speaker directly.

Summer holidays

I think we are in a special moment, because the year is ending, we are flooded in exams, everyday appear new activities to do, christmas is near and all this happens in only 31 days, so talk about holidays sounds like something near and far at the same time.

When i think on holidays comes to my mind sleep and wake up late, play video games for hours, go to swim when the day is hot, visit some friends to spend the time, travel through Santiago to know new places, eat delicious food that only appear on summer like watermelon, cantaloupe, "pastel de choclo", "humitas", go to the beach and eat sea food and fresh fish, go to the cinema in family or with friends, etc.

That's what i do the past years, but now it's different because I'm thinking in add new plans and activities like get a jobs and save some money, that because i have new expenses, my father recommended me a course to travel to USA and work for a month, but i'm not sure to accept, that because the course is in january and i finish the semester a mid january.

In this moment,  my family are talking about where we can go on holidays, it's a funny story that repeat every years because my father wanna go to the beach, my mother to the south, my big sister wanna travel abroad and my little sister complains about everything, in my case i think i'm happy going everywhere and know new places. The funny of the story is that in the end we use the opcion f "None of the above".

I remember the holiday of 2012, because was famous for the end of the world, the plan this year was go to "villarica" and spend the holidays there, but the day before we go, my father arrived from work and in the dinner says "Pack your bags, we're going to mexico".

Addiction: From coffee and tea to drugs of abuse

Honestly i don't know much about drugs of abuse, but i think every kind of drug will be a drug of abuse, If you go beyond the limits. So I'm going to talk about caffeine.

Caffeine is a bitter-tasting alkaloid that block the adenosine receptors; the adenosine is a nucleotide that one of its characteristics is to stimulate the sleep, so we can conclude that caffeine inhibit the sleep.

Well about drugs i used caffeine and alcohol, but a hard drug i'm not sure, once time ago with my friends in a party I tried marijuana, but i don't know if marijuana it's a hard drug. I remember that I vomited and the next day I still did not feel well, also remember that my friends had their eyes almost closed, they did not talk coherently, they laughed 5 minutes for nonsense and walked in a weird way.

It's complicated talk about benefits of drug, cause i think everything is good in an acceptable portion. For example drugs as alcohol and caffeine are good to enjoy with friends or work more efficiently for a moment, but excessive use may lead to dependence, gastritis, diarrhea, convulsions in the case of caffeine and heart problems, damage neurons, among others, in the case of alcohol.

Examples of withdrawal symptoms can be mood swings, depression, irritability, amongst other. I don't know a person with drugs abuse, but that can be because i'm not  a very worried person about other, so maybe i'm closer to someone and I do not realize their condition.

The only impact on the career that comes to mind is to create food with dangerous additives for people or in the future certain chemicals become illegal by new research.

Post-graduate studies

If i have to decide a postgraduate course, it will be Magister of management, quality and food safety, because i think it will help me a lot to find a good job, and honestly I find it interesting.

Why I want to do this magister?, It's for many reasons, one of this is because i think it will help me to work in many places like Food exporters, Quality management of companies, work in food processing, amongs other.
another reasons it's because i think is very interesting this magister and i can complement this with lots of areas like Health, safety, administration, among other.

When I saw the study plan, I was interested in the following subjects: Course of Systems of Management of the Quality; Course of Microbiology, Hygiene and Food Safety and Course on Food Safety Management Systems. I found this subjects intersting and think will help me lots when I start to work.

Where I want to study?, do a magister in a foreign country sounds very attractive and if the opportunity appear I'll take it without hesitation, but I think i'm going to do a magister in Chile, because travel to another country and pay the magister it's very expensive.


I think the more comfortable way to study is the classic, go to the place where it be taken and do it as school, although another alternative sounds good, i prefer take a course an concentrate on this.

Your Future Job...

 Think about  a specific job it's a bit difficult, because I have not decided yet and the options presented are varied.

I think it would be interesting to go the way of research,  also I think it would be interesting to start my own company, another option can be to work in a big company like "Soprole" and recently I started thinking in working for the ministry of health as an public servant.

It's depends, if i work as a public servant i think it will be like an supervisor, doing regulations to companies to keep the requirements.

I think it will be mostly indoor, because all the regulation should be do in the companies of the country, may be outdoor when i have to travel to other countries for special occasions like research of a determined food, learn new ways of food regulation, among others.

Honestly I think will be very interesting travel a lot, besides the work i think the mere fact of traveling do everything more interesting.

It's complicated talk about salary, because everyone will say you need a lots of money, but I think all the jobs are good if you enjoy what you do, little by little you will start to understand the money is not the most important think, and do what you want will make you feel satisfied.

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n this moment I'm studying food engineering, so in the fourth year i will have a degree in food science, in this moment i not decided if i want another major.

Digressing about music: songs, dances, melodies, groups, films...

The kind of music i like the most.......It's difficult to choose, because when i think about it, lots of ideas come to my mind. For example I usually listen "rock", there are also times when I like listening music as the "Jazz" and even in occasions I finished listening to "classical music", I think it depends on my mood.

Since I was a child I like the guitar, because I used to imagine playing songs from "green day", "the beatles", "System of a dawn", among others. I remember when I was 15, I enrolled in a school course where I learned songs as "yesterday", "hey june", etc. But because of the time this was done I could not continue to attend.

Now I think the best instrument is the piano, because I find it versatile, one can learn and play any kind of songs with a piano.

Today I hear groups like "the beatles", "queen", "attaque 77" also I usually listen to covers from video games that make independent people. But the most time I listen to all kinds of music without great preferences.

More than one type of music, I will talk about groups that I tend not to listen, at least not with the same frequency, this is because I haven't a particular preference, when I was a child I used to listen bands like "tronic", "prisoners", "SKAP ", " Linking park ", etc.

If it is about film music, I could mention the Disney classics like Tarzan with "son of man" two worlds, "The Jungle Book with " I wanna be like you ", " The Bare Necessities ", amongst other.