Changes to my study programme

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Today's topic is about making changes to my study programme. As you may have already noticed, I'm studying Psychology. So, I will be talking about changes I would do to Psychology. It's kind of fun, because when I entered this career in 2013, there was a process starting that was meant to change the career's structure, but as I was a freshman (or a "mechón" how we call it here), I didn't understand much and, therefore, I didn't participate much neither. However, as time passed by and I knew more stuff about my career, I could participate more. I'm saying this because, almost everything I will write now are actually common critics and changes that have been already proposed to make Psychology Great Again.

A lot of the changes I would like to do to Psychology has to be with the curriculum, because there are many courses that aren't really necessary, as they are mainly focused for certain specializations. In this matter, I would make the elective courses (which the student must chose starting in the sixth semester) earlier, as they are a central part of our formation.

Another very important matter I would change are the practical works, because we don't have real interaction until a very late phase of our career, sometimes too late! This is crucial, because sometimes you can't bear the intensity of a real patient and his problems in case of clinical work, or the cruelty of a murderer you have to interview in the case of criminal psychology; or if laboral psychology is really what you think it's and a long etc.

Finally, the problems of the lack of use of technology and lacking faculty facilities to study, availability of computers, slow internet and other stuff like these are shared among all the careers of our faculty, even among all the faculties in our campus Juan Gomez Millas, so I won't get into that to make this post even longer jajaja. I hope this doesn't give a horrible impression of my career, because mostly it isn't as bad as it sounds.

See ya.

Favorite book.

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Today's post is about my favorite book. Even though I'm not a bookworm, I'm not able to name just a single favorite book; I have many books that could make it to my top list. In this list I would include Herman Hesse's "El lobo estepario", Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" and George Orwell's "1984", among many others. If I were to pick only one I would pick "El lobo estepario", because I consider it a masterpiece. This books makes you travel to the inner parts of the human nature alongside with Harry Haller, the author's alter ego. It has an in crescendo narrative where you constantly go deeper and deeper into the human essence and the reality gets blurrier and blurrier. The later part of the book, the "Magical Theater" is able to blow your mind and get you to question yourself. I'm not going to write any further about this book, because of the spoilers I could come across.

As I said before, I haven't read that many books, but I really like Herman Hesse writing style. He has a very refined style of writing, very descriptive and introspective. I Also like Palahniuk's raw style of writing. He has a writing style that can make you sick, but he is very good at telling a story this way. In fact, his story "Guts" made me feel ill, but it a was a really good story! I suggest you read it, it's really short.

Lately I've been reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, because my girlfriend gifted it to me as a birthday present. It has about one thousand pages! It's the longest book I've ever read. I'm like 50 pages away from finishing it and I've really enjoyed it. It's different from the western literature, but totally recommended.

Postgraduate Studies: Musicology.

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Today's post is about Postgraduate Studies. Personally I haven't planned to take any postgraduate studies yet. Anyway, if I were to choose any I would pick one regarding music. I have been thinking about taking a course about musicology, because I consider that music is something that influences our life in numerous ways, even if we don't realice. Also, I think it's really interesting to blend together music and psychology (my current career), because it could help understand how music works in our subjectivity and further develop some therapies based on music. In fact, music therapy is a growing area of alternative non-medical therapies and it interest me a lot.

The subjects that interests me more of Musicology are "Music Anthropology", "Popular Music" and "Musical Cognition", this last one with a strong link to Psychology. I would like to study in Argentina, because I like their educational system and it's not so far away from Chile. Another option would be to study in Chile, but the problem is that education is too expensive here, and arts are really underrated. I would prefer a blended system, because it has the best of both worlds: Classroom relations and autonomous learning.

Anyway, one of the problems I would face if I were to study Musicology is the requirements, because I don't have any "official" background in music, so that's a thing, but I think I could sort it out. Another problem is the money, that's why I would rater study in Argentina than in Chile. Also I would have to work and find a place to stay there, but that's part of the fun.