My academic year

The first term of this year I was eager to started classes and I felt curiosity because I was not going to be as introductory subjects, but more practical and associated with various areas of psychology. The first term I had occupational psychology, communitary psychology, clinical, juridic and educational. The second term has been better than the first because I could choose the subjects I wanted to take according to my interests, today I think my choices were good. The bad thing about this semester is that my group of friends broke a little because not all agree on the same classes.

Now I think the first term of this year was very difficult because in all the subjects I did many works and research in group and I didn´t have free time for fun, but I feel I learned a lot. In communitary psychology my group and I we went to a communitary health center in Recoleta, in this place we participated in a group of addicts, this was a very good experience because we known how to work in the community area. In educational psychology I learned history and problems of chilean education .In Juridic psychology I learned how the psychologists work in the area of justice. My favourite class was clinical psychology because in this subject I learned the basics things of psychotherapy with children and my group and I did a research on " How media influence teenagers' suicide".

The second term was not as difficult as the first, partly because I didn’t do much works in group and that allowed me to better organize my time. My favorite subjects this semester were: In humanistic area through workshops could learn to know and manage my emotions better, which is very important for a psychologist . In the subject of community area I learned about drugs’s problem and the use of hallucinogens in indigenous and as a form of therapy. For me, the best of all subjects was Young-infant psychology because I could learn more about the therapy with children and learned to practice. This is the area to which I want to dedicate the future.

I hope to finish well this semester. So far I think this year I learned a lot and I hope the years have left to finish my carreer continues to be well, that can go on discovering things that psychology is a broad subject where there will always be new things to learn.

My faculty

I remember when I started university I was surprised at the participation of students in faculty and in my course, we choose a course delegate and he was responsible for conducting our meetings to discuss various issues related to the classes and make decisions democratically, although many times it was not easy to reach agreement.

That year a series of problems emerged in our career that ended in a work stoppage. Many of my classmates participated actively in all activities that took place during those three weeks, I personally attended some meetings to see what was the discussion and when classes would resume. Then I realized that everything was much influenced by political issues, there was talk of tolerance but the moment that someone had a different opinion was not heard, also the meetings stretched so much that people are going and decisions were taken by a small group.

In 2008 came a very similar situation, this time in the Faculty of Social Sciences, this resulted that many classmates stop participating . Today it is clear that there is a crisis of participation at all levels, students are seldom disappointed because their demands are not heard and when they protest almost never have achieved the objectives. What is happening is that everyone tries to fix their academic problems alone and there is no union.

But it is also important to recognize the positive things that happened in faculty this last time, in my opinion one of the best things is the new computer room and new and modern computers, before the computer room was small for many students and had very few computers.

I think students have the right to seek optimal conditions that facilitate their education. If there is more unity and put aside special interests I think we can achieve great things.