English 4 Francisca Vargas

 Hi everyone!  First I'd like to thank the professor for his efforts to make the classes interesting. And secondly, I want to apologize for my poor participation in the class, it is very difficult to me to concentrate because I have to take care of my two sons. I wish things had been different, so maybe I have learned much more.  Moreover, I still feeling ashamed of speaking English in public, I feel blocked and it's very hard to me to speak fluently :'( I think it's because I have been a very long time without practicing. I notice I have forgotten a lot of words and verbs conjugations, so when I have to speak I feel terrified, especially if my children are crying or yelling at me. While I'm writing this blog I had to consult many times in the dictionary. The truth is I would like to have more time to practice, but being in calm and not concerned about my children. I leave you this drawing of Bjenny Montero.

  Hi everyone! Regarding my study program, I have always thought that contents related to neurosciences in psychology program are quite poor. In fact, we have two required courses, under the name of “Neurophysiology” and “Cognitive Neuroscience”. Even it represent a good opportunity to get introduced to this subject, later is difficult to find courses where you can go deeper, and they also don’t have a specific order to make sense of the learning. Moreover, I think that a good idea would be to reinforce the oral and written skills of the students, because in my experience, making oral presentations or writing essays it’s not enough to learn. Maybe the different faculties could design specific courses for this purpose in order to help disadvantaged students. On the other hand, from my own experience, I believe that it is necessary to create better conditions to the students who are parents and their children, because it is the reality for many students and it make things harde...

 Wow, I'm very surprised by professor's optimistic view of the future. I think I can't see the future that way. I'm almost sure that climate change is already irreversible, and there is not much to do as individuals to achieve a significant change.  Anyway, I'd like to travel many years into the future, so I could see the post-apocalyptic scenario. Maybe I'll travel to the year 2500, I like to imagine the possibilities, multiples lifeforms I could find, maybe I'll find non-carbon based lifeforms, giants or who knows what.  The truth is I wouldn't like to stay there, mostly because the uncertainty. Perhaps there will be nothing I can recognize as a human, or maybe the air will be completely toxic. Or the opposite, the earth will be full of life and nature like Teletubbies' land. It's a mystery. 

Well, I'd like to work as psychologist because I have been studying this for many years :') I think this year I just realized that I'd like to work specifically in the neurosciences area, either as a researcher or making neuropsychological diagnoses. Considering that, I think the job will be mostly indoors, but I hope there will be exceptions.  For now, I'd like to travel a lot but I don't think that this would happen working as a psychologist. Regarding to the salary, I haven't so much information, especially in the case of researchers. One of the few things I know, is that researchers need to find public or private funding, so it's not clear for me how they make money.  Finally, I'd like to talk about the reason why I'd like to work in this area psychology. The reason is that the field of neuroscience, specifically related to mental disorders it's relatively recent, and I believe that there are millions of things to discover and learn to improv...