Essay

On this essay I made a self evaluation of my academic year. Particularly, I made a revision of the more important facts tha happened during the year, which have left a mark on my memory. It is just a little revision of many facts that happened with a short description because I had to choose only the more representatives. It was hardest to choose and make a review of them because how can someone explain all a year of feelings, memories and experiences in two thousand words?. Just can I say that I do my best and I expect you like and enjoy it while you read.

I think it was a good year because, first of all, I entered to the University of Chile what it was my principal last year goal. I really wanted to study there because it is one of the most prestigious universities of my country.

I have to admited that the first year of my career was hardest but not as I imagined. I say that because I used to hear that when you entered to the university probably you failed in many test or even complete classes but I didn’t. In fact, I succesfully passed all my classes and I hadn’t to take any exam so I was on vacations before of the majority.

Also, this year I met many interesting people and I made a lot of friends. Many of them are from my career, other from aikido’s class (there I met people from anthropology, cinema, sociology science, philosophy, journalism and arts... from every faculty). This is one of the most wonderfull things that happened because many of this people are my friend as my working partners so we are a team. For example, some best friends are always my partners in presentations, group’s test, etc. of my career because they work very well.

For last, I learnt pretty much stuffs about psychology that really motivated me to research more about it. One of them is a psychology’s line called behavioral-cognitive, this line puts emphasis in the environment and the learning as principal components in the development of the human behaviour. I liked so much that I decided to take an extra class the next year called “experimental psychology”where we prove the theory’s principle with rats.

In synthesis, I think that it was a good year because when I make an evaluation I can remember more good than bad things and that make me feel very good. I feel that I faced all my fears and now I believe that I’m ready to the next challenges that could appear. I expect that next year will be more interesting and bring new people to meet, topics to learn and moments to be remembered. But now, I’m focus on my vacations, to rest, have fun, go out, buy, watch movies and sleep (how much I miss it !).

Vote or not to vote

Today I’m going to write about the presidential elections.
Well, I must confess that I’m a quite ignorant about it, I have my opinion you know, but I’m not an expert and either I have a deep knowledge about politics.
Well, this year I’m not going to vote because at the beginning I didn’t have any idea about how can I elect so I preferred to not vote. Lately, I’ve been thinking about that I should be registered because I really like Arrate, maybe because he is communist or just because I don’t like anyone else.
I haven’t a particularly political position but I prefer to communist than the “right side”. I think that it is because I don’t believe in the right people's proposes, I feel that they don’t care about people only in business and money… When they say that something is for the well majority I don’t know what kind of idea they have about majority because every decision that they made, hardly it is useful to poor people. But I think communist people have more social consciousness or at least, they care about it. . That’s my perception.
About be a politician mmm.. I don’t know, I think that we need a new political party with new proposes, ideas, something that could make a connection with young people. But it doesn’t mean that I want to be a president, it just doesn’t seem to me interesting, I mean, no as a job. I prefer just be a psychologist.

I believe that it is important to get involved in politics, because is our country and we can’t be apart from it. Every decision that people take, it affects us, and “the politic” are everywhere: when you chose something, you give an opinion… you’re always in a position: agree or disagree. You can’t avoid it. Even the anarchist people have a position because they are involve in a society even when they reject it… and this is just because they aren’t nowhere, they belong to somewhere.

Well, today I’m going to talk about a new from a webpage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/31/david-vann-review-christopher-tayler

I chose it because it was about a book and I like literature so, I wanted to know what new books have been published the last time. One title caught my attention: legend of a suicide by David Vann. Immediately I need to know what the history talks about and with the summary I felt totally shocked. The book is a kind of novel but not completely, in fact, the author of the summary isn’t pretty sure how describes the composition. He doesn’t know if he should say that it is a novel or a memoir, or even both because the narrative’s tone is so confusing and because the life’s author (of the book) is so similar as the book. When people asked to David about it, he said that his book has real and fiction facts.

The importance of the true facts of David’s life is that he based the book in his father’s suicide so through of the book he told us about many experiences that he had to experiment with his father and the effects of this.

The structure of the book is a group of short histories of a little boy called Roy, which told us some parts of his life. Most of the histories talked about the relationship with his father: since he lived with him and his mother, until he broke up with her and Roy has to visit him.

The book has many humoristic facts and the tone of it is a quite ironic, but all this doesn’t rest the shocking effects that histories have. I really would like to read it because it is the kind of weird histories that I usually adore, it is something no conventional.

I expect you take a look to the new and tell me what you think =)

Faculty*

Today I’m going to talk about my current faculty’s situation. Well, there is something that since I’ve got here it drives me crazy: the library. I really hate the FACSO’s library, because it is so tiny and it hasn’t enough books (that is madness considering that we are one of the faculties that most read in the campus and maybe in the university. In fact, engineering has more history and literature’s books than us! I know it because a friend went to engineering to bring a history book one time, and she saw it a lot of it, and in FACSO had just one).

I know that maybe it couldn’t be something too current but, it is important and fundamental in the university. We can’t work correctly if we hadn’t the material to do it. So I propose that as faculty we organized some activities or something like that to get some money to buy new books and redesign the physical place, for example an open-air theater, parties, sell things (food, clothes, etc).

That could be a solution because I don’t think that rector or anyone on charge make some “movements” to bring books and documents here from other faculties where they are useless.
But It could be a little problematic because of the time and the class and many people could be not interested on the project because they just don’t care about it. At least, in my case, I’d be really excited for it, because it’d be a request to do something for faculty. It wouldn’t be just for us, it would be for anyone that in the future could need it.

The benefits would be: more space to work and to read, better state of mind of everyone (students, teachers and librarians) because there are less noise (more people in the library are reading and not talking) and better infrastructure.

So that is my propose, I expect you like it !

Japan <3

Today I’m going to write about the country that I would like to visit: Japan. I chose it, because I’m a biggest fan of Japanese culture, particularly the samurai culture, I love it because I practice martial arts.

I used to practice taekwondo but now, I’m practicing aikido, that is a Japanese martial art and I can say that it is the best thing that I ever tried. I think that if I travel to Japan I could learn so much more about the discipline, the founder -O’sensei-, the philosophy and the history of aikido. Maybe I will visit museums or something like that, places where I could find more information about it. Also I chose it, because I adore the typical pictures of the traditional Japanese parks with a lake, the cherry-tree’s flower, the little bridge on the lake and the peace’s feeling moving around. So, I want to be there and experiment that feeling.

Also, I would like to visit a Buddhist temple and stay in there for a long time, maybe all my vacations. I will enjoy the silence, just the sound of the wind… and meditate all day. This is for me, the perfect day ever. And, of course, I would like to training aikido with a real Japanese master, in the central dojo of Japan. That would be something really exciting to tell to my friends, my family and my child (when I have it).

I expect to make it happen some day =)

For today I have to choose two graphs from the webpage www.grossnationalhappiness.com. I chose “Spirituality level” and “Taking account of karma in daily life”.

These graphs respond to a psychological well-being study that consists of the outcomes of life events and achievements. The responses were obtained from Bhutanese people. To evaluated the “well-being”, the investigators used psychological well-being indicators, with them it is possible to understand people`s evaluations about their own lives. These indicators were divided in four broad categories: life satisfaction, emotional well-being, spirituality and stress.

What I could see in the first graph was responses about how spiritual respondents considered themselves, and investigators obtained that every one reported that they were spiritual at some level. The results were that the most of the people considered themselves moderately spiritual, that it is a very common and expected result.
I think that is important to study the level of spirituality because it is, in many cases, fundamental to people’s happiness and psychological-physical stability; that is my case. For me, it is very important believe in something more, it isn’t necessary to believe in “a god or goddess”, I prefer to believe in a kind of life’s philosophy, in the forces of nature or the universe and the karma.

The second graph was about how many times people take in account the karma in their daily lives. The results show it that the most of the people sometimes think about karma, but the result was a little bit close to the response “always”, that it is very interesting. That means Bhutanese people consider very much the karma idea, that it isn’t very common in our country, here we used to think in punishment or test that god make us, it isn’t my case, by the way. I prefer to believe in karma. We can see it like a type of “justice”: negatives actions involve negative responses from the people. So, we have to think very well what we want to do before do it. That's my opinion.

Have a nice day! XOXO

Sick psychology of female sex criminals

The new is about why women commit sexual crimes to children or another women to help to her lovers.

The principal explications is the next one: the differences between sexs isn’t so important that differences within sexs. So, even women as men can ben cruel, agressive and sociopaths persons, because it is probable it has a genetic cause, so everyone could present it, just it is necessary the conditions to express it.

The news said that men are usually abusers (are more common), but when a women does the samen, they do it horribly. It believes that the principal reason is that she is in a dilema at the moment to commit the crime to hel her lovers, she doesn’t know what to do: if she helps to her lover or doesn’t do it, but lose him.

So, when she decided to help him, she assume the role of psychologycal torturing: she blame to her victims for be attractive to her husband or lover, so she express on them ( the victims) all her angry.

Another theory it is based in the idea that women presents "splitting and projecting". It is a theory that said women establish a relationship with powerfull or controler men for adquired with them status and power, so women are willing to do anything for them, because only with a man exist this “glory”, this status, so women have to continue working and helping him to do anything he want to do to preserve the status.

But the author conclude that there isn’t any theory that could be a good explication for this horrible actions, it could be many of it.

You can find the new here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/30/jaycee-dugard-psychology-abuse

First session level 4

Hi! For today I have to write what kind of topics would I like to write for this semester... well, the last semester we (my classmates and me) talked a lot about our career and future dreams, it was interesting but now, I want to talk about more about ourself and the things what we do in our free time. I want to know about the important experiences in our lifes, hobbies, childhood, thoughts or feelings about anything… and why not? About our fears and traumas.
The blog could be a tool to express everything about us. I think that in this way, blog would be more interesting and fun, not just a “homework” or an obligation, but a nice thing.

For example, I would like to write about my favorite hobbie-sport –marcial arts- particulary about aikido and taekwondo, because I have directly experience with them. I would talk about what involves to practice martial arts been a woman, how you feel when with the pass of the time you start to understand the movement’s dynamics… it’s so exciting!

Also I would talk about my believes or life’s philosophy. For example, I like a lot the oriental “religions” (they are more philosophy than religion, I think), especially the Buddhism, and I try to behave in the way that Buda did. I think that the believes are important because they have an influence in the way that we think, behave and understand the world and people.

Well, there are some ideas… I expect you like it !

The end.-

Wow, I can’t believe it, the semester is ending... How did the time pass so faster?
Well, well, well... about my experience as a blogger I can say that it was very interesting. I never had done it before.. I mean to write in a blog for a class. I used to have a blog but it was personal. In there, my feelings was expressed in poems, short stories, pictures... that kind of stuffs.
I think that it was a really good idea, very innovative. In general, I enjoyed to write every week a new topic for the blog, but in many cases I had problems to make it for time’s limits (I can’t stay Monday’s class and for that, I can’t write the blog inmediately) so, sometimes it becomes in another homework to do in the biggest “Pending’s thing list”.
I believe that blog’s homeworks helped me to improve my english. I think that with the time, my english became better (a little at least jajajja).

The blog had many positives things, for example you can contact to your classmates and read their texts, to give your opinion about it, to express your ideas, to improve your english, to be creative (in your expressions and in the decoration’s blog).
About the “negatives” things, I can mention: blog takes time to write (and I learned how important every single second is in the university’s life ajajajaja), in many cases I felt a little dissapoinment with me because I made a lot of writing’s mistakes (but I tried to use it how a form to learning and it doesn’t make it again).
Just two “negatives” things... almost nothing ajajajja.

But, seriously, I really enjoyed to write the blog. It was the most fun thing that we made it in the semester (please, you don’t misunderstand me, I’m not despising the rest of activities; it just I like this one more than the others).

My ideal job *___*

Definitively this semester has been really hard, uff! ...

Well, today I’m talking about my ideal job. This is to be a psychologist, I’m completely sure.

Not for nothing I decided to study this. I did it because it is what I love to do. (I mean, I like to analyze pleople).

I can’t imagine me doing another thing (it was so much difficult for me to find a profession and when I did it, I realized that it is the only thing that I can do better.

Obviously, the principal skills and qualities for that job are: to inspired confidence to pacient, to have the capacity to listen people, to have patience, to have knowledge about differents psychological theories, to have finalized the career, to be motivated and always believe that any problem can be result.

I think that I would be good in this job because I have many of the principal skills and qualities (I think that the aspect I need to promote is theories’s knowledge, because I know about it but only superficially).

I like to work in a public medical center, principally; because there I could have more contact with different kind of people, problems and situations (just a little population’s part can pay a psychologist in a private medical center or in a private consultation).

I think that it wouldn't be very difficult to find a job in this area (clinical psychology) because with pass of time, it is more necessary the psychological council (the world every time becomes more confuse and complicated). And my aunt (she is obstetrician) works in a public medical center and she said to me that she could get my a job when I finish my career (I hate to talk about the typical "pituto", but I think that is it useful for the first years).

That's all. Take care !

My favourite subject

Hi! Today I'm going to talk about my favourite subject. It is called "Psychology"... yeah, I know, the name isn't very creative. This subject is a kind of introduction about many things, for example, we can learn about the perception, personality, psychology's history, motivation, life's development, etc. The teacher's name is Juan Enrique Wilson, and he is the best ! He teachs in a way that is so easy to learn and he has a enormous hability to explain the contents. The principal material that we use is a book that it is called "Psychology and life"; and it is a kind of bible for us because it contains all the basic information that a student has to know about psychology. Every class, teacher made a test about one of the book's chapter; this mean that we have to study every week.

I like because it is one of the few subjects that are related directly with my carrer. The another subjects, for example, history, philosophy... aren`t very related and I used to study in the school. "Psychology " is something new for me and completely interesting.

Vide0 !

Today I'm going to make a review about a video of the website www.ted.com .

The video showed a man called: Ken Robinson. He is a creativity expert and in the video he talks about if the schools kill creativity or not.

Well, he said that in every school of the earth what teachers has been taught are things related with the modern life: the industrialism, the growing population, etc. Things that are useful to promote this life style: so faster and "pragmatic" and for that, the artistic disciplines haven't a piece of space in this uncontrollable world.

Be creative involve to make mistakes sometimes, but teachers don’t accept it so kids can’t be creative. With the time, we are losing the capacity for be creative, so when we grow up and we became adults, we are just another person without any prospect or new idea: we just put our attention in the job and produce more and more even when this doesn’t matter us (it is so boring do things just because we must do!).
So we have to change our educational system that only promove hierarchy in subjects; because the art is so much important as cience, literature, mathematics, etc. And we have to respect the different kind of intelligences that kids have because its developments can be promove in many areas, one of them, the artistic area.

People are different, and we have to accept it. Be an artist isn’t means to be a useless person. It just means, be a different person but with the same importance than any other.

My future

For today, I’m going to talk about my future.
I think that in the future I will be a professional Psychologist that will be working in a hospital or a psychological center.
I don’t think that I will have my personal consultation for that moment because first, I’ll need to take some experience with partners of discipline, to adapt to the system, etc.
In my personal life I’m not really sure what I’ll be doing. I think that I won´t be married because I’m going to be very young yet: just twenty three years old ! (and of course, I won’t have kids neither).
I suppose that I’ll have a little department (I don’t know where and I don’t care for now), what it’ll be paid by me. I think (and I hope so) that I’ll be a independent woman, with my money, stuffs, car, department, and my life.
I expect to know somebody who I can start a nice relationship because I adore be in love ajajaja, but principally, because I would like to start a serious relationship with a young, professional and serious guy, without the complications of the university (I know that work could be worse, but in any case it’ll be a different experience).
Also, I would like to travel to europe and EEUU for my vacations if it is possible because I’ve always wanted to. And for last, I’ll continue studying about my discipline, maybe I’ll make a postdegree or something like that. I don’t want to remain behind !

Best in my area

Today I'm going to talk about the best in my area.

It is difficult to decide who is the best because they are many, and every one has contributed with something important for the Psychology.

But I decided to talk about Freud because he is the psychologist that introduced a fundamental concept in Psychology: the unconscious. Before his studies, the psychologists thought that we could accede to our mind only with the reason (the conscious).

Well, Freud was a doctor and a neurologist. He is the founder of Psychoanalysis.

He started his studies using the hypnosis as mental patient's treatment but later, he started to use the "free association" and analysis of dreams, that means that people (patient) have to establish connections between what they dreamed and childhood's lived experiencies (for Freud, the childhood is very important because it determines adult's personality).

Just like I said it before, he introduced a new concept: unconscious. It was taken from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Hartmann, but Freud gave it a scientific status.

Their concepts (unconscious, unconscious desires, repression, etc) were totally revolutionaries for his times. He proposes a divided mind in levels: yo, ello and superyo; and a fources conflict between our desires and our reason (what I wanna do and what I must do).

I think that he is important because he finished with the taboos and he treated the sexuality in a different way (it is fundamental for his theory, all energy is a sexual energy).

For all this I think that Freud is the best.

Psychoanalysis

About my career *

Today I’m going to talk about my career:
I’m studying psychology and this is my first year. I like it very much, because everything that the teachers have taught me is totally new and interesting.
I decided to study psychology because It was what I had always wanted, since I was child.
In my infancy I used to think that I could help people with their problems. I had the typical image of the concentrated psychologist (Freud, for example) hearing to the patient that it was lying in the sofa and I expected to become in someone like him.

The professionals of my area can work in clinics, schools, companies, courts... and in many places. In general, psychology can contribute in all kind of stuffs. You can find psichologists in the tv, advertising agencies, etc.
Obviously the kind of contribution depends on the discipline. It isn’t the same talk about clinical psychologists than educational psychologists (clinical is related with individual behaviour and educational with school behaviour... it is a very general definition). But the principal objetive of psychologists is improve the quality of life of people, the relations with themselves, another persons, communities, etc.

The tools that we would need in the future are more technological machinery because they are very necessary for studies related with de brain and behaviour. We could develop a lot of innovative researches.

I have two favourites subjects: psychology and psychobiology, because they are the most related with the career and the matters are things completely news for me (I had never studied something like that).

I adore my career !

Photograph (L)

Today, I'm going to talk about a photograph that I like it so much.

This photograph, I took it one month ago, I think; when my friends and me were in the "art's grass" that it is ubicated in the Art faculty.

It shows us in this order: Patricio, me, Zuelem and David.

They are my friends at university, and I love them a lot !

Zuelem isn't part of the psychology course anymore. She decided leaving the career for make a pre-university, take the PSU again and apply for medicine, the career that she really love it.

The "news"made feelling us a little sad but we want the best for her, so we supported her when she told us.

The picture like me, because it remembers me all the things that we made that day: all the jokes, laughter, conversations... everything.

That day, was one of the most beautiful days in the university and I'll remember how the first of many.

Facebook *_*

For this task I have a problem: I don't have a career-related website. I study psychology and this is my first year so I don't have so much knowledge about this kind of websites.

So I'll talk about a website that doesn't specifically related with my career but where you can find some information about it: facebook (www.facebook.com)I knew facebook because of internet, television and comments of my friends (It become very popular).

There are a lot information about many things in facebook'groups. For example, I belong to a group called "Latinoamerican psychology" where you can find information about international seminars, meetings, etc. Also, obviously, I belong to "University of Chile Psychology", this is a group that contain information like volunteer works, how you can find or get some particular books or any relevant material about psychology. You can find a lot of people like you, with same interests, new ideas, a lot of knowledge and experience. I really expect to be like them some day.

I visit facebook's group almost every day, because most of the time I check my profile (invitations of friends, groups, quiz, games, etc.) and then, if I want to, I visit the psychology groups. There is one that I didn't mention before: "psicomechones 2009". This is a very special group because is about us: the first-year's students of psychology.

There are a lot of incoherent information ajajaja, but also you can find comments about tests, activities, homeworks, etc.

This group is that I love more than any other, because is own group, it is about us. (L)

Finally, I can say that I enjoy a lot visiting this groups because they are so much entertaining, interesting and they constantly upload new useful information.

Notebook *

My favorite piece of technology is my notebook. I think that is the most greatest invent of the universe ! I like it, because you can do a lot of things with him. For example, I can speak with my friends when I'm chatting, I can review my e-mail, I can find information on the web for my homeworks or anything that I wanna know.

I got it before the last year in christmas time. My uncle gave to me at the end of the night, it was my last present. For me, it was a complete sorprise because I expected to receive it the next year when I get graduated!.

I use my computer every day at night. I sit in my bed and turned it. Then, I have to wait a little seconds for the programs and my antivirus start to work. So I open the messenger, the internet explorer page and my program "last fm" (music program) to listen some music. I use it sometimes just for chatting, another occations for write my summary about psichology class, to listen music, to upload my pictures in my fotolog's page, to check facebook, or just for play.

The life without the computers would be boring and complicated because we couldn't accede to many things when we want it. We couldn't speak with our friends all the time that we want to(because talk on the phone is so much expensive), we have to go to the library for take any information (books, magazines, newspaper, etc), we have to write all "with the hand" and the pencil (we can't print).

Well, if the computers doesn't exist, we'll get in troubles. The life became in chaos for a while (at least even we find a new way to put the things in order and more accessibles).

For all this, I love my notebook (L)

Last meeting.-

Hi, look at me. I'm the girl that you made.

You don't remember me but I do. You taught me all that I know now.

You make me feel in that way, desesperated.

Your taste, your magic put me in this situation, I'm lost.

I remember when I see you that day in the library

you seem to me so much interesting, so near, so inocent.

You made me feel so strong, so much happy in that moment, but this

happened just because I really didn't know you, I didn't know your poison.

That strong taste made me feel so naughty and your eyes came to me

and exposed all my shame, all my horribles feelings.

You made me strong, but you consumed my soul.

Now I'm lost in my own desesperation, looking to myself

and yelling you words that were my last piece of me.

I lost you and you took me in that way, so hard, so painful.

Let me find me again.