María Paz Medina

Hi! In this last blog I talk about my experiencie about studying English in the university. First of all, my level of English was never good, because in elementary school I never had good teachers and in secundary school it was very difficult for me, so having to study English at university was a nightmare for me. However, this course has been enjoyable, the ways in which English has been taught have been very entertaining, and the use of blogs has been a great and different way to learn to write in English. So, studyng English in the university has not been so terrible, because I have learned much more than I thought, without suffering so much. About my English, I have to improve many aspects since I don't know a lot of English. So, to improve speech, writing and the understanding, I think I should study more, I could also watch more series and listen to more music in English, because it's not something I do very often.  Outside the English class, I don't ...

Hello everyone! In this blog, I will write my opinion about the changes that could be made in the career of Social Work at the Universidad de Chile. First of all, I would like to have more courses in which one communicates directly with people, since most of the courses are very theoretical, which is very important, however, practices could be integrated so that we adapt to work in the "real world" so to speak. In addition, although the subjects of the curriculum are very good and help us to integrate more knowledge, I would like them to be more focused on Social Work, since there are subjects that are a bit detached from what is career and that sometimes is demotivating when studying for these courses. Regarding the workload, I think that perhaps it is not such a heavy academic load compared to other careers, but it would be great if the evaluation dates did not clash with each other, since the academic stress of having to perform many evaluations in a short time is stressfu...