English Language Challenges

Finally this is the last blog (I really hope it), and it`s time to talk about the English in the university. The English (like a language and course) is a bit funny to me. Sometimes it is quite easy and relaxing (like when we do the activities or blogs), but in other time is hard and stressful (I remember the day when the teachers of the introducing course gave us work to read a scientific paper entirely in English and explain the paper`s topic.

Although the course stresses me sometimes, I don`t feel like it is a part of the career (maybe because the topics of class are too different to the topics of the  other course, specially with the new programme study) even if we write blogs about some topics of the study and future. That is why  even I try to do my best in the course other things (and others subjects) forces me to not put much energy in it.

About the blogs I think that`s a good idea to practice the written English (I can`t imagine writing a composition about the topics that we wrote in blogs), the most of time the people read and listen (and sometimes also speak) English but no one writes a long text in English. For me is weird, usually I found words and expressions and I feel that I learn something, but when I write a new blog I don`t know  how to start or what words use.

I know that I have to improve my English, specially about the speaking and writing (the listening and Reading I practice everyday when I stay in the internet), but I hope that my friend gives me some help to do with that (I think she will force me to speak well in a short future).  

Changes to my study programme

I hope begin  a person like that.

This is my first year, but I´ve finished the first semester. I know that everyone who starts these year is a guinea pig of the university. From this year a new programme is implemented and there are good and bad (really bad) things.  First the orientation, now the programme is emphasized in creating abilities. Some people say that we learn how things can be done but actually we don´t know why the things happen, but I thing that these two things come together, even if in the class they don´t teach why of the thing, the student studies and learns about it for doing it the best way.

Also after finishing the most of the subjects (the basic ones and the investigation unities) we have defined period to finish the thesis (in one semester) and I don´t know if that is good. This semester the difference between programmes is big and the things begin to complicate. Already we have  subjects that need more abilities to do, example, we have general chemistry two at the same we do the chemistry laboratory at the begging we don´t worry too much about it, but if we delay a class, we don´t know how do the practical activities.

Also we have to do mechanic without precalculus and now we have learn electromagnetism even if we don´t know how do integrals, I think that we have finished mathematics one and two BEFORE to do other subject.

And about of the workload it´s a little big sometime, especially the calculus homework because, most of the people study a lot to this subject, and we have to prepare many practical classes so doing a homework  isn’t productive.