viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2009

My academic year

Through this essay I intend to tell about my academic situation of this year. I can say this year has been a fantastic year. It has been full of success and gratifications. I improved many topics in my life and I think they helped me to have a better academic situation. In other words, I can say that academic situation is not separable of others life topics. When you feel good with yourself, when you have good relationship with people, when you are healthy, I´m sure you have a good academic situation. If everything goes just like has been gone until now, I will have a very successful and fantastic year.

I can say it has been a really fantastic year, compared with the last year. 2008 was a very horrible year for me. At first, I was into a depression because many problems (family, university, money, health, personal relationships, etc.) In second place, because this situation, I get away form my school friends that always been a support for me and almost falied a subject called Aprendizaje. I achieve it in January But, 2009 has been absolutely different. First semester finished totally successful: I pass every subject. The second semester is going to finish very soon, and I think it will be more successful than first.But my good academic situation was affected for others topics, that probably improved my development in the subjects. I think it is necessary to talk about them. All my haouse problems have been solve, the atmosphere I in which I was leaving was very bad but all this problems have been solve in a very good way. Recently I have started a new relation ship with a guy, I have very good expectations about this. He is a classmate but lives in Talca. I hope we can see each other trough holidays.

In conclusion, I may say, surely, this year has been much better than last year. Many problems have disappeared now, and new situations have arrived to my life. Then, my academic situation has improved in considerable form. Not only my grades are better, also my interest in the career has increased. To day I can say, without doubts that I want to be a good psychologist in future. I want to be someone very prepared to help other people. I pretend this year finish well, and the rest years of my life will be always better. Well, I hope things will be in this way.

viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2009

Psichology challenges

Curently I’m studying psychology, through my academical periods
First thing we heard about our carrer is the position psychology have in social sciences and the problem to consider oneself being part of science or not. This discussion involves each are of psychology and have no answer yet.
I’ve realize some limitances we have related with our access to update researches and information. Most bibliography we use in our subjects is very old and has lost the relevance related to our career, taking part of psychology history. This is not relates to classic psychology authors like Freud or Rogers but related to researches and studies we use to our investigations or in future to the treatments we will apply. Most update information is written in English, so people who doesn’t read or understand that language is in disadvantage from those who understand it.

On the other hand we have a lot of technology problems; on our biological subjects we have no rapprochement to practice work. Most psychology students have problems in school to understand biological theories so having only theory classes make more difficult to us to understand those subjects.
Another challenge psychology, which has been part of it for many years, is work for the people, with the people and not for the oppressor system. This is very difficult because its related to what we consider normal and abnormal in society, what people is sick and what people is sane. Are we working for the people or are we working to the system, normalizing people, making them more productive to society and considering non productive people or people with problems non capable to develop in society. We need to be very careful with the labels we use on people cause that can change their life for ever.