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.