Post 10 : English Language Challenges

Post 10 : English Language Challenges

This is our final blog, personally I liked them alot because they allowed me to practice more my writing that I had forgotten a little bit and I also like to write about interesting stuff. I enjoyed English class because it was didactical and it make use of practical tool such as blogs, online tests and videos. 

I think I need to improve alot, the most difficult areas of english for me are writing and talking, I have a hard time on pronunciation because english language is pronunciated in a different way than our language and also I try to imagine the words in my head but in my voice they sound in a different way. Also writting is difficult for me because there are some rules that I keep forgetting like the use of ' or the different time tense. I don't know how I can learn this thing, maybe travelling would be a good way to practice english, I've been told that Australia is a great country for agronomists and it could be a good experience to go there once I graduate for a couple of years.

Outside English class im using english alot because of all the things I have to read like papers and documents, because we are learning how to do our thesis. So we have to do alot of reading mostly, but we lack the use of oral interactions or listening skills.

I think english should be a mandatory assignment since the day one of university because it helps alot in the other classes, and it helps you to look for information which is more easy to find in english pages. 

Post 8 : Summer Plans

Post 8 : Summer Plans

We are all waiting for the end of this stressful semester, and we all think of the things we will do in the vacations. I wish to do practice in the summer so I can earn some experience as an agronomist, but I don’t know if im going to be able to do that because I finish an university matter in order to be able to do practice.

So if I cant’t do practice im going to finish all the series I haven’t been able to finish because of all the tests and proyects we have to do. Also im going to sleep the eight hours as it should be!.

I don’t know if im going to go anywhere, I hope I do, I would love to go camping in the wilderness and leave Santiago for a week or two, maybe go fishing or hiking would be nice, I like to spend in the nature.  Also I would like to go to the beach, maybe go to cities like La Serena and Valparaiso, to breath the air of the seaside and chill in the sand.

Also I would like to take some courses, I recently watched a flyer about a stand-up comedy course with Felipe Avello, my favorite comedian, and it would be very fun to take classess with him, it would be something really exciting.  I hope he doesnt charge much tough. Also I would like to learn how to brew beer, I’ve been postponing this for ages!.

Well there are alot of things I would like to do in vacations, they are just around the corner.   

Post 9 : Changes to my Study Program

Post 9 : Changes to my Study Program

Today’s blog is going to be about an interesting topic, the study program of my career: Agronomy. Well in my opinion there are alot of things I would change about my career program, such as the focus of the career and the classes that are imparted along the career. I think that are some mistakes on the focus of the career in the way that is teached, because I think that there should be more practical hours so you can apply the things that you studied.

Also there should be a way to approach more to the teachers because in alot of classes you don’t feel an attachment with your teacher and you don’t feel secure to ask things and that is a very important aspect of education, the feedback between teacher and student.

There is too a problem in the agronomy study program is the repetition of subjects with different names but same content, for example we have a classes named Practice 3, Marketing and Agrobussiness and in all of them you have to develop a product and you have to do the same thing and study the same subjects so its a repetition of the same idea.  

Another problem is the lack of practical classes, because we have Practice 1 to Practice 5 but no one of them are real practice, there should be a class in which you could put to practice the things you learned.

Finally other problem that I find is the lack of technology application in agronomy, because we only have a few classess in which we learn how to apply technology to agricultural systems and that is an important subject.