Post 8: ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHALLENGES

Ever since I was a child, I have loved English. It was one of my favorite subjects. But when I left school I didn't practice it for 4 years. A long time really. Then when I got to university I take the english course  in my third year but we were just in pandemic so I had to practice online. I must say I don't like it at all. I feel like you don't learn the same way as when there is real interaction. I have to admit that sometimes I forget to blog. I really regret it because I know it's a grade and it's important for my learning. But I have so many subjects that I didn't have much free time and since it was due on Saturday I forgot.

I think a good way to improve my English is to practice it in my daily environment. But no one in my house knows English. Least of all my friends. So it's a bit difficult on that side. Something that has helped me a lot is watching movies in English with subtitles or looking up translations of songs I like. It's a very entertaining way to learn. 

I definitely consider English to be very important for our professional development. And I would love to practice it much more to speak fluently in the near future.

Thank you very much for joining me in this course. I enjoyed it very much. Best regards!

Post 7: changes to my study programme

 I really like my career, however I think it could improve some aspects to be even better. Among them, I suggest that the courses directly related to the career such as Ethics and Environmental Legislation, Environmental Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Economics, among others, be at the beginning of the career. This would be very helpful as it would give us the necessary context to understand our professional objective and how the rest of the courses relate to the career. I also suggest that they do more practical activities to link our theoretical knowledge with experience and thus improve the quality of our learning. For this I recommend incorporating more field trips, more activities in laboratories, or create instances of interaction with older students or graduates of our career or similar careers.

The pandemic context provoked an abrupt virtuality in the classes, which had both benefits and detriments. But I think we can rescue the technological tools as something positive because it allowed us to continue our classes and save travel time. In my case it saved 5 hours of travel time that I used to use just to travel from Paine to La Pintana.

I have always thought that as students we would be much more productive if we focused on one subject at a time. For example, we could spend 2 months completely focused on one subject and after passing it continue with another. Would you like it to be like that?