Little girl in the storm

This time, being the last English class and considering that there are a few weeks missing to finish the year, I would like to make an account of some of many events that have happened so far. I’m going to center on the academic aspect of the two semesters. First, I have to talk about the level of academic demand that our program imposed us in many aspects, for example, in the classes, the quantity and kind of subjects we went through in each period. Then, I will make a self-evaluation of my student performance, and at last, but not at least, I would like to talk about some unexpected situations, academic and personal, that were remarkable for me.

To start, concerning to the level of academic demand of this year, I could mention that it was really different form previous years maybe because it was not as difficult as I had thought it would be, which does not mean that it was easy at all. Comparing both semesters, the second one was more relaxed than the previous one. Anyway, there were a few extra requirements that made me go through so much stress maybe because it is my last year and we all want to success in all classes, or because of some assignments like finding a subject for our investigation workshop, etc. Besides, this year we had a change in our program that put a lot of pressure and extra working time because I had to pass eight classes each semester!!! It was really hard and I had (and still have) classes every single day from early in the morning until late in the afternoon. It was exhausting and in some occasions I did not had enough time and energy to carry out other university obligations. Concerning to my self-evaluation, I can proudly say that I did great... I have very good grades; in addition, I did better this year than the previous one, although I was not an example of constancy.

At last, to finish with this analysis of the year, I previously mentioned an area of unexpected situations that in one way or another affected my performance. As I said before this year was full of high demands that at some point affect you physically or emotionally and that finally affects our personal life. To explain this I have to say that this year my younger brother came to live with me because he is in college also, and sometimes he had to pay the consequences of my mood changes... nothing really serious. We went through many discussions because of unimportant situations combined with the fact that I had to play the role of bigger sister again, but in the end, he was the biggest support and company I had when I was in a bad day. Therefore, I can finish this post saying... yes, it was a good year.

Hello everybody!

Today, I’m writing about the situation of my faculty, specifically about the benefits that it offers us. First, I have to say that the situation is not really bad if we consider that ideally we all would expect a bit more. It has all the necessary elements to operate and, at the same time, it brings us the spaces we need for daily coexisting according to our needs. So, there are important aspects that have to be improved because they are a need for all students. For example, I consider necessary to improve the library especially for us, Social Scientists that need a very important amount of books either to read or to do our researches. Other problem is the lack of space, because as you know, everyone goes there to work and study, and sometimes the space is not big enough for all of us. At the same time, this space problem leads to another one, which is the lack of specific areas to study quietly.  Another aspect that can be improved is the computer room, I know that it was improved some time ago, but it's not enough for the enormous amount of students of the faculty. The rooms are always full of people and if we need to use a computer or just print in there, it's an impossible task. But not everything is that bad in the computer rooms, at least we have air conditioning that helps us to bear the summer time classes.

I consider that those are the main problems of our faculty, and in order to find solutions it's necessary first to create a priority list, so there would be a sort of guide to solve the more urgent problems. This could lead us to have a better standard of education; in addition, there are some problems that have to do with our daily student routine that can be solved easily like the disabled people accesses that ends to be a big limitation for those people that want to study here.