Self Evaluation of my academic year

This is my first year in the university studying psychology. Since I was a child I liked to think and meditate why people do some things, and other people do completely different things. When I listened that there were a career named psychology in charge to this questions, I get fascinated and I wanted immediately to be a part of this discipline. Before being in University, in school, I always thought how would be being in this place, what matters I would had to face and what I would like. Now that I`m in this situation, I look back and I can evaluate my academic year, counting all things I once thought of that.


The first thing I think when I look my academic year, is that I don’t like all the subjects I had to study, actually I had liked only a few, because not all of them are related whit my career, like Statistics, History or Philosophy. During the first semester I was so disappointed of all this subjects, but when I analyzed why I had to study them, I revaluated the situation and calm down. The second semester I had to study things that I liked more, like Psychoanalysis, or Basic Psychological Processes, and I enjoyed it. Because of this, I liked this semester so much more.


In this year, I could realize that there are many things that I like and I didn’t know, like biological sides of psychology. I just finished a subjecnamed “Learning”, based in behaviourist psychology, which according to the opinions of students from previous years, is the most difficult in the year. I didn’t like the professor, but I liked so much the theory, I found it very interesting, and I think I would like to continue studying it in next years.


For the moment I like this career, and I hope to keep on learning many things of all this subjects. I’m honest with myself, and if in one moment I don’t like how all is going on in my studies, or if I realized I’m not happy in here, there’s no doubt I’m going to leave this career. For now I’m good, I’m learning things that I like, and although sometimes I have to study more that what I can (because it need more time for all I have to do), I like my actual situation, and with this I mean not only the academic issues, I like the social relations that I have created here, I thing that ones makes you grow up at the same time that the study do.

challenges in my career

This semester is the second if my career, so in all this time I have passed for many instances that I had no idea of what it was going to be , now I know how to handle most of the situations that maybe make angry or confused, but there are some of ones that I still, have no deal. One of them is one computer program, named SPSS. This program is made to organize statistic information, for example, of psychological test. This semester me and my group cludn’t do all things that the professor has requested, because It was too difficult for us to manage this software. I don’t think I’m not gonna be able to use this software never in my life, I think this semester there was only a little time to practice, and there’s no doubt that another semesters I’m going to familiarize with the program, and i’m going to use it very well.
In other subject, one important challenge here in psychology there are many requests that all the students have to be able to do, the thing I think is the most important the social situation. With this I mean that you have to know how is the social development of your patient to help him (or her) in any way. I know the social situation here in santiago, but I think I will have to keep me informated about the social situation in other parts of muy country or even of the world, according to what place I’m gonna stay in my professional development.
Another challenge of my carrer is to decide what speciality to take. There is so many options, like social psychology, educational, clinical and more. In this moment I dont know what speciallity I’m going to take, but for now I preffer the social side, i think this is the most relevant psichology. I think i’m gonna resolve this challenge in the next few years, because in this time I will be informed about advantages and disadvantages of every specialities.

What about being whealthy?

Who didn’t have dreamed with being wealthy? Who doesn’t’ had thought all things that can be do whit much money that we have? Well, I think being wealthy is not full of advantages, to my mind it has pros and coins. I’m going to present you my point of view about this theme.
It is often believes that being rich is a very pleasurable situation, because you can have all things that you want to, and that’s true, money solves many problems and needs! If I were rich, I would travel around the world most part of the year with my boyfriend, and I would dedicate the other part to my job, just like a hobby. Also, I would buy a house in many parts of the world to my parents, for them vacations. That would be great! I think most of life would be just for delight.
However, I don’t think all things would be good, and sometimes money changes personalities, especially when people get selfish and don’t want to share their money whit their relatives or don’t want to tell other people about their situation. For this reason I think money makes distance between people, and in that way I don’t think it’s good for relationships.
In conclusion, I think pros and cons depends of each people, obviously more greedy people have more possibilities to become in a selfish person, and more balanced people would know how to enjoy of their money without separating of their relatives. I think, in that way, all people are different.

the most embarrasing moment!

Thinking of the most embarrassing moment of my life, I couldn’t find one emblematic moment, but I remember one that was very very embarrassing. One day, my friends and I were spending time on the swimming pool of a friend called Belén. This swimming pool was part of the department of Belén, so there was full of people everywhere. In one moment, with three friends, we decided to make a “pump” in the water; the “pump” is one way to jump in the swimming pool that splashes water everywhere. Well, we jump, and when I went out to the water, I heard my friends screaming my name very loud, when I look at them, I realized that the top of my bikini got loosed in the water!!! Oh my gosh! I was so blush and the only think I could do was look for my bikini and put it on me again. All my friends that were present in that moment was girls, least one, my friend Hector. He told me that he hadn’t seen me and I believed him, (all this passed in al little bit time), but some days later, in a party, he told me that he do had seen me but he didn’t tell me because I would blush so much if I were knew. He was so kind, I love him very much and in that moment I thanked him. What a shame! I never used that bikini again, I hope don’t be in that situation again!!!.

Some problems here in FACSO

I’m currently studying in the faculty of Social Sciences, better knew as FACSO. In this place, things are going well, but I think there are three things that need an urgent improvement. First of all, I think the library need an urgent change, currently it’s a very noisy place, it should be the opposite, I mean quiet and calm. There is another library in the campus, of philosophy; this is a good place to study! There is always so much silence and all the people I know go there when need really concentration. The university gave us a solution: they installed a study room in the casino. Like you can imagine, this is not a real solution, there is always smell of food and the timetable is very shortly. ¿who can possible study in the casino?
In second place, I think there should be more bathrooms in the faculty, there are two in each floor, and this is not enough! They are always crowed, and dirty the most of time. In other faculties students have around four bathrooms in each floor. Now in the university there are not improvements for this problem, but I think that before searching for a solution, there have to be a conversation with psychology students center CECSO. I think if more students get interested in this problem, there would be more hygiene and sanitation in our faculty, which are benefits for all of we.
Like a last consideration, I think there should me more microwaves in the casino, because there are two, and in lunch time there become all crowed and we have to wait around 15 minutes to get our food warm! Actually I don’t know who we have to talk for improve this situation, that is very uncomfortable.

This column will change your life: How long does it really take to change a habit?

To develop a specific habit takes around 25 days. We owe this information to Maxwell Maltz, an important plastic surgeon. He had observed that amputees took around 20 days to adjust to the loss of a limb. Therefore, he reasoned it must take 21-28 days to change a habit. This knowledge is called “the 28 rule”.
The 28 rule was ruled out for an experiment of an important university. On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily, took 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had changed. Individuals ranged widely: some took 18 days, others 245 and some habits were harder than others to make a change.
The first problem with this 28 rule is very simple: changing habits is hard. The psychologist Ian Newby-Clark asks:"what would be the point of having a habit that didn't free up your mind to crunch on more pressing matters?" Habits are meant to be difficult to change.
The mainly problem in the moment we change a habit is that we tend to think about habit change wrongly. We want to stop watching so much TV, but demonstrably, we also want to watch lots of TV, so what we really want, it seems, is to stop wanting. The way round this, says Newby-Clark and others, is to see that habits are responses to needs. What's required isn't a better habit, but an alternative way to feel comforted and relaxed. The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken, Dr Johnson says that maybe by looking at the problem differently we can still change an habit in a very bit time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/10/change-your-life-habit-28-day-rule

The Curious History of Benjamin Button

My favourite movie is “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. It’s about a man named Benjamin, who born in the end of the First World War, with a several aging disease at birth. The doctor gives him only a little chance of survival, but he does survive, and gets younger with time. Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. In this house Benjamin meets Daisy, and fell in love with her, but in that moment there was a very big difference between them: Daisy was only a child, and Benjamin was a child too, but in an old body. Anyway, they became very good friends.
Although separated through the years; Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact trough their lives, reconnecting in their forties, when in age they finally match up. In this time they became lovers and had a child, but time goes on, and he is younger every day...
Finally, Benjamin becomes in a baby and die, looked after in every moment for Daisy, now an older woman driven only by the love that she feel for him.
This movie is a drama, and I like it so much, the Character of Benjamin is interpreted by Brad Pit, such a cut man!, and Daisy is interpreted by Elle Fanning. Her character is a ballet dancer, and there is a lot of dance in the movie, I love that! This film is very long, some people don’t like it but I think that it give a touch of suspense to the movie.