Blog 10 English languaje and challenges

Finally this semester is ending. Yay!

I had fun in this class even when I'm still salty because I couldn't be exempt. I will not miss staying late in class nor doing this blogs, but I think I'll miss laughing so hard of our bad spanglish and the conversations of different topics.

So, back to the blog. To be honest, I don't know anyone that learned english in college and I know that's not what a teacher wants to hear, but it's true. All students that do this kind of course and don't know the language before, just struggles till the end and hope to pass. Hell, I even been asked if I can do their homework (and refusing politely, I don't want any extra work). Another thing, in my previous career it was necessary to know english because you had to read a lot of papers that wasn't in spanish, but in here I don't think is that crussial. I think this course is in the study programme to say that the student "knows English".

The blogs are fun kinda. I think this method is an interesting way to approach students to write english in a very casual way. An advice, I don't think talking 4 times of future plans of work/studies is necessary. One post and one video would be enough. Just my opinion.

I think I still need to learn how to talk properly and write better, grammar is a bitch. In my daily basis I use english everyday, my favorite youtubers speak that language and almost all the videogames I play or want to play are in english. In my case is learn or don't understand anything. So, to keep practicing my skill I will keep this method. Everyday I learn a new word or concept. I highly recommend learning this way. Search things that interest you and read or watch about it in english. Movies count too.

Peace, I'm out.

Post 9 Changes to my study programme

When I was in school I thought that the Universidad de Chile was the best. Now, with 3 years in this career and 4 more in my previous one, I can say that this university still exist because of the glorious past.

My career lasts 5 years, in the fourth year you get a degree and in the last year, after the thesis, you get the job tittle: artist. This "job tittle" is useless, of course. Please, tell me one job where one of the request is having the tittle of artist. Short answer: no job. The people in charge of the career want to change this and make art studies shorter in one semester, so it would lasts 4 years and a half to get the degree. That makes more sense in my head. Besides, if they want to promote that your students follow postgraduate studies, that is the best way.  Still, 4 years is more than enough. That half semester is BS.

Other thing I would change is some of the subjects. One is this useless subjects called "Curso Transversal", is an interdisiplinary class with the other art careers. Nobody learned nothing of the other careers, only hate group work. The other one is "Gestión de proyectos artísticos". I mean, is not that this is a bad subject. What bothers me is that this class only teach you to apply for art funds. They don't teach you how much your creations are worth and that is a huge problem. If you don't know the price of your work, then you can't know the fair price and that means that galleries and potential buyers may pay you less and you don't even know.

The methology differs from teacher to teacher. I hate this free spirit hippy thing that teachers just give you a grade and you don't even know why. They just feel it. I think a requirements table is a good idea to standardize  the grades. The technology is different in every workshop, but the ones that need more thing that they can't buy, like ovens, works really bad.

The buildings and infrastructure are sad. This faculty is falling apart piece by piece because nobody wants to pay for improvements. No ovens for the workshops that need it, no ceilings that works when it's raining. Even the floor tiles are bad.

This faculty only have the prestige. Nothing more.

Post 8 Personal Opinions

Well hello there.

Today I'll talk about my opinions in different topics. Here we go.

Tattoos. I have a few. I think that tattoos are great, is another way that can people express they individuality and  are no longer just for criminals. I like when people have a story behind the tattoo, like a memorial event or a loved one. But having a significant tattoo is not mandatory. You can have one just because it's cool, it doesn't matter and you're not stupid because of that. Also, I think it's very stupid for tattooed people to be discriminated against in the workplace. Having a tattoo does not make you more stupid than the rest of your co-workers.

Killing stay dogs is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow. The problem isn't that dogs are in the streets, the problem is that the owners doesn't take care of their dogs, they just throw them away like is not their business anymore, then the poor dogs do everything they can to survive and that means problems for the rest of the people. The population of dog need to be controlled, sterilize your pets is a good starter. In a country of Europe (I don't know which one) having an animal is very expensive, and because of that people think twice before having one. I think that paying some tax for every animal that you want to adopt is a way to stop this way of thinking that dogs are objects you can have and throw away when they bored you.

The mechoneo is outdated. Is a tradition that is just violent against the new students. Sometimes it just go too far, as if seniors simply released stress with them. Besides is a way of spend food and materials in general to humiliate kids. It should be changed to something more fun, make them play games like eating an apple doing "the koala" or crushing eggs by sitting in your partner. You know, games that make you meet your new classmates.

Abortion should be legal in any way but before the fetus is 3 months olds. Woman do it anyway illegal, people die because it is done clandestinely. If you legalize it, you can control this and it wouldn't be so traumatic for so many woman. Besides, before the 3 months the fetus doesn't have any nervous system. It's just a lot of cells group together.

That's a lot or words. Have fun.