4 Questions, 4 Answers

Hi everybody, lately I have been talking a lot about my career and that stuff. I think that you should be really fed up, so I'm gonna return to older posts and strat to talk about various topics again. So, what a batter idea than starting a blog about 4 topics and my opinion of those. Well let's begin.

Pets at home:

Well, since I was a child I have wanted to have pets. I think that is awesome to have pets in your home. But is important to know that like any being, they have needs, so you must feed them, care of them, clean them, and the most important give them all the love you can give. Also is important that if you want to have a pet, you must keep informed about the animal and their cares. In the end bring a pet to your home is incorporate a new member to the family.

Cloning:

That is a really interesting topic, because is one the things that have most drawn attention of the human race. I think that is very difficult to say that if it is or not a good, beacuse the different nuance of this practice. In my opinion I think that the study of clonation is important to discover new information about the celular functioning, helping to the fight of diferrent disseases that today don't have cure. Maybe in the future it will can be regulated, avoiding bad practices in this complex field.

Legalization of different drugs:

This is a very controvertial topic, but I think that is imortant to discuss about it. In my opinion, drugs like marijuana, must be legalized. I think that legalization will mean an end to the black market, also a regularization to the products that are sold, like quality, drecreasing the probability of damage to the consumers, and prices. All those things, I think, are the most effective fight against the drug trafficking.

About other drugs, I think that is more complicated the discussion about their legalization. For example, phychedelic drug, like LSD, according to diverse studies, are harmless than drgus that now legalizated, but can be harmful to a certain group of people. So if those drugs are lagalized, they must have a ragularization more exhaustive, especially because this kind of drugs are very important to the study of mental diseases, and, at the same time, his effects are very unknown, due to how complicated is to study them for being ilegal.

The chilean education:

In this part I'm gonna talk about the protests about chilean education.

Today chilean education is on crisis. There are a lot of lacks that until today are not solved. The students are tired of promises of things that never come, and the goverment is fighting agains their protests. I'm goinna tell you a personal example. The years before I entered to the university, I went to a school that was very participative in the social movements that help to improve the chilean education. But today any movement or protest by the students of my school is hardly repressed by force by the police. Tht's how any person inside the school suffers the repression, is or not protesting. In this way the goverment shut up the petitions and doen't solve anything.

Well, I think that I have altered a little haha. Well I have written very much, so I leave this blog here for today, see you soon.

After my career

Hi friends, this blog will be quite similar to the last blog. Maybe you are thinking that I'm going to talk about my career like many of my blogs. Well... you're right and at the same time you're wrong. how? Well, In spite of Chemistry and pharmacy is very interesting to study, I think that is not the only "thing" that I will study in my life. How I said before I like very much the health area, so anything that I can study I will study. All that to have as much knowledge as possible and be a great professional in the area that I work. So I'm not going to talk about my career in the present, I'm going to talk about my future studies after my career.

If someday I finish my studies, I would like to take a postgraduate. Probably I would take it here, in Chile, in the University of Chile. 

The  postgraduate I would like to take is a Master in Pharmaceutical Sciences. What is done here? Well, this is a program that is oriented to the teaching of  analytical and clinical pharmaceutical. Although this is more oriented to analytical part.  So this program is more with the purpose of work on pharmaceutical products, just the thing that I want. Also This consists in attending classes, so I would have to go directly to the University. It is very awesome!

After that I won't do a PhD. Because is not necessary for the kind of job that I would like to do, but maybe in the future I change my mind and finally do three PhD.

Well, this is all for today, I hope that this blog had help you even a little bit to think in your studies now and after your career,  after all all that will be your base as a professional. 

Life in Labs

Hi my dear fans, I'm bringing you another blog. Today I'm going to talk about a theme that is very important to me, my career and the job that I would like to do. 

Well... since I was a teenager I always have had the dream of working in the health area, maybe caring for people, giving them medicament, or making the medicament. Today I'm studying Chemistry and Pharmacy at the university, so I had an idea that what I want to work on. In the future I would like to work in a pharmaceutical laboratory. In this kind of job there are varieties like researcher or supervisor. But I want to dedicate myself to the investigation of new medicines that help to treat different diseases that today don't have cure.

In this job we pass the most part of the time in a laboratory, but it doesn't care because I will have all my attention in the creation and the study of the drugs.

The salary in this job is very good, we can get about $1641.5 a month. Well, this is an approximately number because it varies according the laboratory or the country.

Today I'm in the first year of the career, I don't have fished it yet. But when I finished it, I will do a postgraduate, to has most knowledge and most possibilities to get a job. Maybe when finished all, I would like to leave the country and go to work abroad. I'm just thinking, but it would be really awesome!!!

Lateralus

One of my favourites bands ever is Tool, an American metal band formed in 1990, and that is one of the most influential in the actual era. Tool has released five studio albums, but Today I'm going to talk about the best of these albums created by this band, "Lateralus". Maybe you are asking why is this album so good? 

One of the things that differentiate this album form others is his composition. 

Tool used the concept of the Fibonacci sequence to create "Lateralus". If you didn't know Fibonacci sequence is a sequence that begins in 1 and 2 and the following numbers are defined by the sum of the two previous. Basically is this: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13, etc. This sequence is the base of all of our world, we can see it in flowers, snails, etc. So this band took this sequence and created its album. For example there are many songs that its lyrics follow this pattern like the song "Lateralus", or the percution is in such way that also follow the sequence.

Well, this is not the only thing that we can see in this album. For example while ago some fans discovered that can rearrange the order of the tracks on the album into a similarly shaped sequence. The key to the order was placing track 13 in the middle and arranging the other tracks in additive pairs on either side. The songs  are said to match up with each other in a more sensible way, and makes for the “proper” order. 

Of course not only that mathematical things make this album so great. Also its innovation, for example, drummer Danny Carey sampled himself breathing through a tube to simulate the chanting of Buddhist monks fo "Parabol", and banged piano strings for samples on "Reflection". 

Well, I could keep talking about this phenomenal album, but I think that is better that you listen it to discover it. See you next blog, bye.

Chemistry and Pharmacy

Hi readers, today I'm going to talk about a very special career to me. If  you are new in my blog and didn't read my older posts, let me tell you that I study Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Chile. Maybe you are wondering why I chose this career. W

ell, the truth is that only I'm doing it for the money... I'm just kidding, although it is true that this profession is well paid, but is not the only good thing that made me chose it.

First I can say that since I was a kid I like sciences, also there were TV shows and movies that made me love the chemistry, like Breaking Bad. So in this way I was entering in this new world of Chemistry and Pharmacy. 

Chemistry and Pharmacy is a very important career that is dedicated to the health area, in general. Is due of that there are many options to choose to work. A pharmacist can work in a clinic or hospital participating in schedules for the correct use of drugs in certain patients, pharmacovigilance (the surveillance of the drugs that are distributed in the clinic or hospital), and handle toxicological situations. Also, a pharmacist can work in pharmaceutical or cosmetic laboratories, investigating new drugs or regulating the develop of medicaments. Well there are more works that a pharmacist can perform, but there are so many. In fact this profession has an employability of 97.7% first year. 

So, money and employability are important things to consider to take a profession. But especially that you love the career.

Well, to finalise, I will say that whatever you choose how career, don't choose Chemistry and Pharmacy, so I don't have to compete with you. It's a joke if you are interested come and join us.

The country of dreams

Hi friends, I came back to this blog, after a while. I took a short vacation to relax. But, anyways, today I'm going to talk you about the country I would like to visit.

Well, since I have memory France has been a really insteresting contry to me. Always I have liked its culture, architecture, and its beauty in general. I have seen France in movies and books. Also I have friends that have visited this country and have talked to me a lot of it, so thanks of that things my curiosity have been grown up, making me dream with someday visiting this beautiful contry.

The things that I know of France is that it's a country located in Europe and its capital is Paris, the "city of lights". French food is one of the most important of the world. Through the history, France has been a country dedicated to arts.  The arts have been very important in this country, for example there is one of the most famous museums dedicated to that, the Louvre. Its architecture, also is impressing, one of the most famous in the world is the Eiffel Tower, located in Paris. And finally, its geography, having the French alps or lavender fields in Provenza, for example.

If someday I go there, I would like to visit the most possible places, starting with Paris, visiting the most famous places, like the Louvre, Eiffel tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Notre-Dame

. Then visit other cities like Versailles, Lyon and Marseille.

I would like to live in this amazing country and learn a lot of this beautiful country, I don't think that I can someday cost it, but who knows...  

Last blog, my dear friends

At the beginning of the year, when I started these blogs, I didn't was so sure that I would be capable of make a decent text to read. I always have thought I'm a really bad writer, so I never had written so much. Until this semester. All Fridays we wrote about a topic. Pets, mental diseases, films, technology. All super interesting topics that helped to me to want write, although sometimes it cost to me to think what write, when I didn't know very much about certain topics. Creating blogs every Friday was an excellent form of improve my English and, obviously, my writing skills. But also it helped me to activate my creativity, and motivated me to do the work of investigating about the topics I had to write about. There may be people that think that is a boring activity (actually I thought it too, before to start) but the work of create a new blog continually, has been a one of the things that I have most enjoyed in this semester.These blogs allowed to me to discover something that I never expected, I really like and enjoy writing. So  I hope to keep writing in this blog or anywhere, but try to always do better.Writing blogs allowed to me have fun, discover new things, learn a lot, meet nice people and even rediscover my past. Now I'm writing this with a smile on my face, hoping that this is not the last time I write. I can only say thank to all of you readers and teacher for give me the opportunity of write. It was a beautiful experience. Good bye to all of you, keep writing and reading, my dear friends.

OK, BYE

 

  

Schizophrenia, a misunderstood disorder

Our brains are a very important part of our lives, they are very complex organs that can make a variety of functions since regulating the processes of our bodies until allowing us to think. But, how all our body, this is not a perfect organ. Currently, there's a lot of mental diseases and disorders, caused by chemical alterations in it that are not supposed to be. Today I'm going to talk about one of the most known disorders and at the same time, most misunderstood. Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder characterized by abnormal behaviour, strange speech, and a decreased ability to understand reality. The causes are not fully known yet. But is demonstrated that exist a genetic factor that causes the disorder, although is not the only one that causes it, in the majority of patients, there's a lot of possible external factors that may unleash it, some are the abuse of drugs like cocaine or psychedelics, or vital stressful situations that mark the life of that person.

In this disorder, there's a lot of symptoms that a person may have. The most important are delirium, that consists of false beliefs that the person firmly hold based on some details of reality that misinterprets, hallucinations, where the person see, hear or feel things that he lives how real, but they are not, and negative alterations in thoughts, affectivity, behaviour and cognition. 

Schizophrenia appears equally in men and women. But is more frequent in men than women, and tends to appear later in women in a milder way than men. Generally, it appears in the teenage or first years of adultivity, but it may start later in life.

The worldwide prevalence of this disorder is around 1% of the population with few variations between countries. But the prevalence of life in developing countries. 

Although it is a complex disorder, it has treatment. Antipsychotic medications are the most effective treatment for schizophrenia. They change the balance of chemicals in the brain and can help control symptoms. The problem is that schizophrenia is a chronic disease and most people who suffer it need to be on antipsychotic medication for life.

To end this blog, I'm gonna tell you why I chose this disorder. I think that is important to know about this kind of disorders, to break the stigmatization. I think that if we know better this disease, we can improve the lives of humanity.

Picture made by a patient with Schizophrenia

                   

The Green Subjects

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, 

is something beautiful. All life is interconnected with the rest of life. 

- Richard P. Feynman

Hello fans, today I'm going to talk about my favourite subject of life. Well, I always have been a passionate of the discovering of the world and its secrets, so that, not it's strange that in my life I had acquired a liking for the science subjects, especially, for biology and chemistry.

I have luck of have been in a school that developed very well these subjects. Of course we had a lot of theoretical practises, but also, regularly, we had practical works in the labs of school. In biology, once, we see a real brain, actually we worked with it, and we opened it and studied it, I loved it so much. In my university, occurs the same, due to I study a scientific career. 

I like that in these subjects there's a lot of available information, and despite this, it isn't enough, because only we know a small part of the behaviour of universe and there's a lot to discover. For this reason is that I began to like the sciences. I like how science open to you the ability of know and discover the world, giving to you the all the possible knowledge and teaching to you how to discover. 

Well, although, I know that it's very important the theoretical knowledge of a science to begin to work in it, I really prefer the practical works in labs. But, currently, I course the first year, so the most of activities are most theoretical than practical, but I know that is because is important to get the knowledge first and work after.

In spite I said before that I liked biology and chemistry, today I prefer the last one, maybe because, I find more interesting to study the matter than the study of organisms. For this is that I study chemistry and pharmacy, my liking of chemistry facilitated me my choice. I think that is important that people learn about the world that surrounds them, and chemistry is a good way of knowing it because it is the base of life and the most of other sciences.

The genius behind modern era

Through the history have been a lot of people with a brilliant mind that have given their lives to the service of the science, the discovery and the develop of the society. All those people that have done important works, today, I think, deserve all the recognition of the world. Today I'm going to talk you about one of the most important people in the current era The person that have develop a lot of companies to try the change of the society to a better one. This is Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a PhD in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. Since here he starts his career to the develop of big companies. The main companies that he have founded are "Tesla Motors" that manufactures electric vehicles, "Space X" a private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company, and the most important, I think, "PayPal" a company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods.

I admire Elon Musk because he is a real genius, having an economics degree and another in physics, and because he has been a great visionary, creating companies like "Space X", that today help agencies like NASA to the hard work of the aeronautical and aerospace research, or "PayPal" that offered a new way of how to manage the money in a fast and safe way. But above all because for his perseverance and his desire to create a better world.

My dog, the reason of my happiness

I have always loved animals, especially dogs, of any kind, they are so beautiful and I admire its loyalty and fidelity.

Since when I was a little boy I wanted one, but I never had it, due to, I lived in a small house and all my family was out of home during the day. So during 18 years I never knew how was having a dog how pet, until now. The last summer I received a gift from my uncle, it was a puppy that his dog had had. It was a Yorkshire and it was only 1 month old. I wanted to call it "Milo", like dog of the mask (the movie), but finally we named it "Hachi", like that famous dog. I love it. It is so energetic, always want to play and bite my feet, but also it's very friendly with other dogs and people, and always that it heard a sound from out of the house it starts to bark, like trying to protect us from any invader. We say that is the guardian of the house at the same time that is the baby of the family hahaha. I love it so much, I love that always it accompany me and that always sleep with me.

                                                                   My dog is something like that, but very much beautiful

The best photo

My favourite photograph is from my last day of class, actually, the graduation day. In this photograph I was with my friends, in the last "official" day that we would see each other. In it you can see that is no taken by a professional, actually, is just a selfie taken in mirror by one of us. We are in an informal pose, all embraced each other. All this was made in purpose of show the "brotherhood" between us and the affection that we had to each other, and when we saw it remember all those days of joy and laughs, all those times that we helped each other to pass an exam, either studying or copying (in the worst of the cases).

I like this photograph, due to, appears the people that I knew during my time in the school,  and that helped me to grow up and that I help too. This photo represents to me that in that moment we stop of being kids, and we became adults. We had a huge and unknown world in front us, but we would support us always. 

Maybe is not the best photograph, maybe it has a bad quality, but I love it, and always when I watch it, Pedro Lemebel's words came to my head: "I don't have friends, I have loves". 

the film that marked my life

Through the years it have released a lot of masterpieces, especially at the past century, so, to me, is hard to choose one favourite movie. There's a lot of movies that I have seen in my life, but there's movies that have impacted me, American History X. 

The movie belows to crime genre and drama and tell us a story of a neo-Nazi called Derek Vinyard that goes to prison after killing two black men who tried to steal his car. Here comes one of the more iconic scenes in the history of movies and most favourites to me, when he forces to one of the two mans to open the mouth against the sidewalk and hit his head with his foot, it is repulsive, but introduces us magnificently the personality of this character at this time of the story. When he goes to jail we can see a progressive change in his mind caused by various events that mark him (if you want to know, you have to watch it) and when he get out from it, he have to face those people that he knew before entering to jail and were in this neo-Nazi world. Something that I don't tell you is that his younger brother also was in this world, so Derek is going to try to protect him form these people, this fight seems to me really awesome.

I watched this movie for first time 2 years ago, it shocked me. It's so wonderful how this movie introduces us the violence of the streets can reach at the current era, how the government forgets its people and how ignorance and influences can make a person to adopt an entire ideology of violence. 

I totally recommend this movie. You can see in it since hatred to sadness, it have an excellent developing of its main characters, the performances are great and the script is the best part of all. If you watch it, it will give you a lot to think about.

The technology of my life

When I was born, in the year 2000, the technologies that we know today, didn't were much developed, cell phones were so basic, computer had the double size that they have today, and the internet... Well, the internet was very different. In 2000 few people had it, due to, computers were so expensive and phones didn't include this function. In addition, the information that had was few, limiting the access to internet users. Despite this, in that decade the Internet begins to develop very fast, to now.

Today, the Internet has the capacity of connect people for all around the globe, the information that circulates in it, every time is getting bigger and the most is for the free access to the internet users, making easier to collect knowledge. The internet gives the possibility to entering in a new world where all is possible, since buy things until play with friends or even unknown people. This is the reason of why I believe that the best technology of XXI is the internet. 

I, like most of people, use the Internet almost 24/7, in my phone or my laptop. I don't imagine a better place without it. It makes life easier, so its disappearance would complicate our connectivity with the world and also we would lost an excellent form of have fun. The problem especially would be to people that grew up with the Internet, like me. I still remember when at 7 years old I had my first computer and when I used it I entered for first time to Internet. Was here when I knew that it will be my favourite technology.

The jobs of my dreams

When I was a kid I dreamed of becoming a private detective -like movies- or a fireman to fight the fire and save lives. You know, the typical jobs that a child wants.

In spite of be very good jobs, when I grew up I changed my mind. In high school I developed a liking for the subjects of biology and chemistry. My liking of these was evidenced when I entered In a extra-curricular course to learn chemistry more deeply, and when, time later, I entered in another of these courses, but that time in a biology course, when I was in my last grade of school. Despite this, in that time I didn't know yet what I should to study in the college. I had a lots of career options, like medicine, biotechnology, biochemistry or chemistry and pharmacy. I had that doubt even after doing the PSU.

Finally, I decided for Chemistry and Pharmacy, because I felt that was the career that more I would like, also I could help people to heal. Until now I have enjoyed all classes in the college, especially the practical works in labs, and all the people that I have met are very nice.

I hope finish my career as soon as possible to work in a pharmaceutical laboratory to develop medicines that help the people. In addition I have heard that they pay well in this job.

Hi Friends

Hi, my name is Felipe Albornoz, and this is my new blog. I'll start presenting me. I'm the first son of my parents, and  I was an only son for 9 years, until my sister was born. I was born on September of 2000 in  the hospital J.J Aguirre. My mother was from Santiago, and my father came from a town called Villa Alegre, the place where Felipe Camiroaga lived. Both have many brothers and sisters, then I grow up with aunts, uncles, many cousins, and my grandparents.

When I was 6 I entered to a school called Pula Jaraquemada, in Quilicura. Then, when I was on 7th grade I enetered to Instituto Nacional (please don't hit me) and I studied there until 12th grade. Now I study chemistry and pharmacy in the university (Universidad de Chile). I'm only in the first year, but I already have met wonderful people.

I play the electric and acoustic guitar, I play every time that I can, but I still learning. I like also, watch movies, but I'm poor, so I watch them on pirates' websites or Netflix.

Well, this is the main information about me. I hope we meet each other.