English at university

Well. hi. i think this will be my last entry to the blog so im sad and happy at the same time, because it was funny to write in this blog, english was the only subject which i can enter the classroom and know anything, not like calculus or electromagnetism, where i enter and i dont know a thing. 

About my experience learning english in the university i can say that it helped me in the way of polishing my skills, ´cause i already know how to talk more or less and i can be on my own, but in this classes i learned how to pronounce better some words, the rhythm and so on, which contributes to a better speaking in general.

the use of blogs for me was kinda Wow!!! really? i couldnt believe it, it was so different to everything else i ever seen , i never expected to do a blog to learn english, it was entertaining, original, and refreshing, i think it was more comfortable to arrive a class to write about a certain topic rather than arriving a class and do a ton of math and understand chemical reactions.

Well, i have a nice english and i can talk to people that speak english fairly fluidly and we can understand each other, but i need to talk more, because most of the time that i use english is for talking to people in videogames, or for reading articles, jokes, and internet memes !!. but i need to practice my speed and polish even more my pronunciaton and for that i need to talk to people that speak english, so i can get a feedback on my speaking, and also listening to other people i can hear new words and understand their slang, that way getting an even richer language !!

outside of english classes i use english here and there in little ocassions, for example, i play online videogames, and most of the players speak english, so to coordinate and play well with them i can talk in english and we understand each other, also i can use the english to read memes that are in english or read pages from other countries, like reddit, 9gag, etc... so i have more places where to laugh, its kinda another world of fun, because i have friends that dont speak english and they cant understand some images that are really funny.

Other thing that is really common is for...yes !! for music, i can understand more or less well the lyrics of most songs that are in english, and when i read them i can quickly translate the lyrics to spanish and understand the real meaning of the song. The last but not less important, is to help my family in certain aspects, for example, when my mom buys something and the instructions are in english i have to translate it and say her what does it say in spanish.

I forgot to mention that i also teach english to kids in my ex-school, to the classmates of my sisters, they are in primary school, and they have a horrible base, so i teach them the basics things, time sentences, like present simple and that stuff, so i earn some money whenever i can and also i help them to get better marks, so everyone wins !!.

Study programme

Hey guys, this blog is kinda special because i can say what i think about the career !! and first of all i have to explain my curriculum, that means what i have to study, which is a lot but most of it is useful, but i have to complain about the lenght of the career >__< 

the workload is heavy as a tanker truck, at least for me, because i have tuesday, wednesday and thursday with calculus, so i dont have time to digest the contents and i feel overwhelmed with so much math !!

The lenght of the studies are humongous, the normal career is supposed to finish in 5.5 years, but as i reproved a subject it extends to six and a half year !! can you believe that ? i will be stuck here till i am 25 years old (if i dont fail another subject) while in england people with my age study for 3 years and have the same degree as i would have when i finish mine, so in that regard, Chile needs to advance and make careers shorter, by that way, people start to work earlier, and can go to investigation even earlier !!  

The facilities in the university are ok-ish, they aren´t bad, but neither perfect, we need a place to have lunch inside the faculty, so that way we won´t depend on the odontology casino.

We have ricofee but they do not accept JUNAEB card, so not all of the students can afford to their lunch, which isn´t the best in my opinion.

In the other hand we have a pretty nice library, it has all the books that we need in excellent conditions, and the computers room are nice, personally i have some difficulties using them because i am used to use iMac´s, the only drawback of the computers room is that there are few computers, so most of the time when i need to print my works the room is full and half of the computers can´t print so its really though to do it.

the technology in the university is really good, the classrooms have air conditioners, the computers are good but not top tier, but the laboratories are amazing, they have latest technology in them and also old instruments, so we can learn how people in the past used to do their work without technology, so in some words we have the best of both worlds, we have the best technology and the oldest one, like voltimeters, and the oldest galvanometers encased in a wooden frame, they look really vintage 

i cannot say much about teaching methods because this is my first university, so i dont know how they teach in other ones, but i think its nice, most of the teachers are friendly, but one think that i hate are the powerpoints, beacuse the exams and tests never include topics shown in them !!