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Blog 5: Changes to my study programme

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I'm in 4th year of psychology, and I would make more practical courses earlier in the career. In psychology, we have to do our practice during 5th year, and in 3rd year some of the elective courses have practical evaluations, but not many in 3rd year do that. I think that more courses can do practical evaluations, because in this evaluations the students need to link the theory and the real practice, and I think that this prepares you for your work future. Also, more practical evaluations early can help like a preparation for the 5 th year practice, so that the change and responsibilities be more manageable. Also, one change that the departament of psychology implemented this year was the "seminaries" in 4th year and it replace the thesis that you do in 5th year in past years. I think this is great because you work in groups of 4 during all of the 4th year in a specific theme and with a course dedicated only to this work. The only bad thing is that the themes are given...

Blog 4: Time travel to the past

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If time travel was possible, I wold like to go to the past and live again good moments of my life or make different choices. The future scares me, so I don't know if I like to see what the future looks like, I hope that it is good but I don't have hope for that. Also, If I go to the past I can go again to concerts, birthdays and parties that I know that where realy good! Or I could go and meet important people, and the most important, I could tell Felipe Camiroaga to never go in that flight, or avoid other tragedies. And I could go to a time where Centellas cost less that $150, I could buy so much stuff if I go to the past! I think that if a go to the past, I go to the last 10 to 15 years, but I don't know if I would stay there. I feel that I would go and visit good memories, people that I knew back then and bring back a lot of stuff. I think the reason for going back to the present is to share with my friends all the thing that I bring from the past so we can enjoy tog...

Blog 3: A job I would like to have in the future

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In the future I'm not very sure of what I would like to do, but one alternative is to be a legal psychologyst. A legal psychologist work in the jury system and in legal investigations. It is a area that interest me, even when it is a lot of work, but I find very interesting. In this kind of work, the psychologist helps in the making of reports that can help the final desition makin of the jury, but not in every case this reports are used.  But what really interest me is that legal psychologist are the ones that realy see how the law affects the real people involved. Also, changes in the law can be influence by legal psychologist and their work, for example, the introduction of a gender perspective in the law process. This kind of work is hard, and you have to know the law very well, but it is important, and for the moment it is a area of my interest, and I hope to specialize and work as a legal psychologist one day.

Blog 2: The best concert ever

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The best concert of all was in Santiago de Chile, at the National Stadium, where Justin Bieber played on My World Tour on October 15, 2011. It was the best day of my life, since at that time I was a huge fan and he was the love of my life at the moment so it was a dream come true. To introduce you to Justin Bieber, he comes from Canada and was born on March 1, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario. He started singing very young doing covers of songs, until he was discovered by a producer, releasing his first song "on time", and also it was the first single from his first album named "My World". When I arrived to the stadium I was very nervous, but everyone seem to having a great time, and everyone loved Justin's music so it was very nice to share this moment with people who share the same interest. I remember when Justin come up to the stage, all the people started jumping and screaming, including me, I remember the energy I feel and it was crazy! 

Blog 1: I would like to visit Italy

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  Hi everyone, today I would like to talk about why I want to visit Italy. In first place, I think Italy have the most beautiful places to visit, with ancient architecture, beautiful beaches and harbors, and a peculiar charm. If I visit Italy, I want to know the Pizza Tower, the Venice canals, Sicilia, The Toscana, Portofino, Capri island, Milán, Nápoles, Pompey and to many incredible places in Italy.  When Im there, I wold like eat a lot of pizza, lasagna, risotto and spaghetti, drink wine and go to parties and meet new people. Also, I wold like go to the beaches in Italy, take a boat and sail the open sea, sunbathe there, eat an ice cream and swim in the ocean, which for me equals paradise. On the other hand, I wold like to visit the city, meet the beautiful architecture, the streets with cobblestones, the Venice canals, the culture, the people who live there. Finally, if I traveled to Italy, I would like to stay and live there for maybe one or two years to wo...

Post 6: Choice of Two Topics

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Hello everyone, today I will tell you about a person I admire in my field of study. The person I admire is a Brazilian pedagogue, his name is Paulo Freire, probably people who study pedagogy or social sciences are familiar with him. Paulo Freire is very important for psychology applied to the educational context, he is recognized for his critique of traditional education or as he calls "banking pedagogy". It is teacher-centered and not student-centered, a type of pedagogy that does not consider or give importance to the experiences and knowledge of the students. As a result, he created the theory of the pedagogy of the oppressed, a new way of looking at education. He points out that every educational act is eminently a political and ethical fact, which implies that the work of teachers is linked to an ideological and not an objective fact. This type of education proposed by Freire seeks the full and authentic development of others, which seeks a full develo...

Post 5: How Can Your Major Make the World a Better Place

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Hello everyone, today I'll talk about how my specialty contributes to making the world a better place. Psychology is an interweaving of different theories and practices, within them one can find diverse lines in which one can work, for example, there is psychology applied to the clinic (which is perhaps the best known), to the educational context, to the community, to the organizational and to the juridical. All of them have in common that they seek to contribute to people's mental health. Mental health is considered to be a state of well-being both subjectively and physically. Psychology is a career that transforms people, who will be in charge of changing their own world and thus at some point be able to transform the world. Psychology gives the possibility to position mental health as one of the most important axes for the well-being of people. As psychologists we have a very big and delicate job because we are working with people's traumas and vulnerabilitie...