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Post 7: Changes to my study programme

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 When I first read the topic, I immediately started to remember some things. I’ve been in the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences for almost 3 years and, although it may seem like a short time, there are some experiences that developed an opinion. For example, I would like the specific courses to be imparted during the whole career, not only in advances years because many people leave because they´re not taught what they’ll do in the future right away, which is an uncertainty until higher courses are reached. The common plan courses (i.e., courses shared with people of other careers) should also be less difficult to reduce dropout due to the demand and pressure they represent during the first years I’m quite ok with the years of duration, we all would like it to be less time in all careers, but also, I think about others that last 6-7 years and I stay calm because even if it takes me a while to finish my career, it won’t be as long as if the whole career were longer...

Post 6: Time travel to the future

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 2045 As someone who is constantly thinking about how the future would be, any date sounds really scary to me, but I chose 2045 because I’ll be an independent adult at that time. Although I try to be optimistic most of the time, I’m aware that issues as the climate change, sustainability, political differences, job opportunities and many more prevent us from moving forward as a society and I get very anxious and scared when experts and scientists say that our planet won’t be functional in 10 or 20; that stop me from imagining myself as an adult in Chile. Hopefully when I finish my career, I´ll be able to leave Chile and finally live in Sweden, a country that, personally, I think that has better opportunities. I've learned and researched about Sweden and I’m convinced that it might be a place for me since it’s A LOT more advanced that Chile, it’s LGBTIQ+ friendly, there are job opportunities and good salaries, it’s one of the safest countries of Europe and they care about the en...