My time in the university

It started really boring.

Now its very hard, but i like that a lot !

I hope that there will always be a challenge. That's what makes me happy.

English language challenges

I’ll start by saying that English has been a really important language in my life, mainly because of the way that information is presented nowadays. Things like movies, television, internet articles and even printed propaganda had made my brain to understand English as if was native to Chile. With that been said, I’ve also noticed how easy is to forget some aspects of the language when you don’t use it as a way to express yourself. You become insecure about your knowledge, the pronunciation starts to become more difficult, and thinking in English is way less instinctive.

Because of this problems I’ve figured that my main English challenge will be to keep using it in places like the university or at home. I’m especially interested in learning how different concepts or elements used in architecture are expressed in English. I’m also kind of worried that the English classes provided by the university don’t even touch architecture, or the other careers, so it feels kind of shallow or useless as a direct tool for the students.

I think that the best way to learn English is by talking to native speakers. That’s why I’m planning to attend many seminars where I can listen to people talking about architecture. This will not only improve my knowledge in new words, but also for learning how to articulate phrases using very elemental and specific concepts.

 As a review of the course I’d say that it was very useful for feeling secure with my knowledge again, but I would have loved to learn how to use English in my field. But anyway liked, faved, 11/10 and god bless.

boyyyyy the university is messed up !

I'll start by saying that the faculty is great! There’s always something going on and it’s located in the center of downtown where every building is either really old or really new and interesting. With that in mind, the place is total chaos. The reason for this is that the administration of the faculty hasn't been properly updated to the current state of the place, and the changes that have been done, don’t work with old administration. There are a lot of problems, but I think the administration one is the base for the majority of them. I’m not really sure which procedure needs to be taken, but the first step should pint towards acknowledging every subject and class in the curriculum and making sure that the old and new one are integrated. 

The other part that need’s a change it’s the attitude of a lot of students towards the career. Architecture works by researching, experimenting and making projects. Even if the workshop teachers aren’t the best (and I’m aware there are some pretty bad ones), the student has the professional duty to develop a self-taught education, by proposing and experimenting. The lack of this way of thinking is shown by the low quantity of research projects that the students have developed during the past years (I think there were 28 in 2016, which is really low compared to UC with 84). The roll of the university should be towards potentiating this behavior, by making spaces that supply developing tools (like material research and development, multimedia, open workshops etc.…) instead teaching class rooms without the infrastructure to work while learning.

this dude didn't even go to the university.

In conclusion I’d say that yes, there are a lot of problems on the faculty, but the addition of better infrastructure and teachers won’t make us better professionals. We have to be curious and purposing under any circumstance, because in the end, we do this for the passion that we have for architecture.