Post 7: Changes to my study programme

 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.

The faculty brings many spaces where to study and, although there are few recreative places, for example the field or some green spaces. In such a prestigious university as UCh, I would love the infrastructure of the early years laboratories to be more modern and have better materials and resources for the students.

The faculty doesn´t have the best technologies or, at least the first-year students don´t have access to them and, as I said before, the labs don’t have the best materials and conditions to work properly.

The teaching methods also could be better because, although the teachers are dedicated in their classes, in face-to-face classes they don’t provide support material for the study outside the university, so I would like to maintain the working method that is applied in the online classes where we receive a lot of support material and activities to study.

Although I haven’t finished my major yet and there are plenty of things that I would change. I’m happy with the things I’ve learned so far, everybody and everything can improve and UCh isn’t the exception.

See you in a next post!

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