Blog 5: "Changes to my study programme"

When I think about the changes I'd like to do in the future, related to my study program, there would be several. From the syllabus to the currently infrastructure of Juan Gómez Millas Campus.

First of all, I would swap some theory courses for more subjects related to practice. For example, more lessons to improve our radio or television skills. In my opinion, the amount of classes and hours of these subjects are not enough.

According to class time, I would also change a few things. I consider that there are subjects to which we dedicate many hours and they are not the main ones of our degree. While others, that are more relevant to journalism, have the same or fewer hours during the week.

I believe that campus facilities are important for students, and those of our faculty are deficient. For example, the library is small for the amount of students, often they can't all attend this place to be able to study. Something similar happens with the place to have lunch, it is really small, so you have to go to other faculties to have lunch.

Technology is another issue, although the Faculty of Communication and Image has good equipment, it is too limited. Sometimes students are left without access to equipment or programs because they are not enough for all of us.

I consider that the teaching methods of the professors is something that characterizes the University of Chile, I have nothing to say about that. Each one teaches with the greatest possible professionalism.

Photography of Faculty Communication and Image

Blog 4: "Time travel to the past or the future?"

Personally, I would like to live in the present and be surprised. But for the purposes of the course, and answering the question, I lean towards the option of traveling to the past. I prefer to go backwards because if I went into the future, I would know what’s going to happen and my life would lose surprise. I wouldn’t like to live day by day knowing what will happen, where and with whom in the next few years. I want to live from uncertainty, but not from the knowledge of the history of my life.

According to the exact time of the trip, I would choose to go to my childhood. This is given that I have nice memories of my childhood with family and friends. It was a stage in which I had no responsibilities or risks, I just dedicated time to myself and doing things I liked such as playing soccer. I still had to be held accountable at school, but school was much simpler than university. 

However, I wouldn’t like to stay in that stage of my life, because I believe that one must continue experiencing other instances that childhood does not give you. It would only be a quick trip to remember what the Rafael of the past was like and compare him with the person he is today. I feel that by establishing myself in a specific stage I will not be able to grow humanly, and I would break the cycle of life.

I would also like to make it clear that in my visit to the past I wouldn’t change anything to avoid a new future to occur. I am one of those people who thinks that the different circumstances that one has faced maybe had a purpose. In the end, each situation helps build the person we are today.

Photography of my favorite movie about time travel.

Blog 3: My dream job

Writing this blog made me remember how indecisive I was as a teenager to choose what to study and work for the rest of my life. Now I think about it and I hope I have chosen correctly.

I chose this degree because it fulfills all the things that I like to do on a daily basis, for example: write, read and learn about current topics. Also, the areas of journalism are very entertaining. These include radio, television, websites and newspapers.

There are also many areas of interest to me, such as the environment, justice and sports. The last one was one of the main factors to take my decision because I am a huge fan of different sports.

In the future I would like to have a job related to sports. I would like to inform people about sports. I'm still not sure about the exactly communication area, I just hope to do my best. In any case, I would like to go through different formats, that will give me a lot of professional experience. If I am a dreamer, I would love to work in a sports channel or radio show.

About the skills I need to be a journalist, there are some I still can't do correctly. These include personality, language management, voice projection, good researcher and being educated. Each of these skills contribute to being a great journalist.

I'm already in my last years of my degree, so I hope to be able to face the professional world and find a workplace that welcomes me as well as university or even better.

Blog 2 : Best vacations of my life

Best vacations of my life 

My favorite season of the year is summer season, since I do several hobbies that I don't do during academic period. Therefore my most treasured moments are family vacation outings.

Specifically I remember last years holiday vacations. Instance in which I went to Atacama. It was a seven hours journey, so it was very exhausting for everyone.

On that occasion, the trip was made with the most important people I have, my family. Group that is formed by my mother, my two sisters, my brother-in-law and my nephew.  

In general the activity that I did the most during those vacations was discover new beaches. The funny thing is that I don't like to go into the sea and I consider myself part of that group of people who only go to the beaches to sunbathe and read.

If you ask me why that was the best vacations so far its basically because that has been the longest time I've traveled the north of the country with my family. I mention it given that we were in Coquimbo, Copiapo and La Serena. I prefer this last place since we went to Bahia Inglesa, a beach that has crystal clear water. Without a doubt, last year's vacations were one of the best and I hope to continue to filing memories like that.

Blog 1: "the trip of my dreams"

Spain has attracted my attention since I was a child so it's my dream to visit the country one day. I like that nation because I have seen that it has beautiful urban and rural sectors, where Barcelona, ​​Ibiza, Madrid, Granada and Murcia stand out.

I know that Spain is a great tourist power, the second most visited country in the world, and it is located in southwestern Europe and in northern Africa.

If I have the opportunity to go, I would like to visit the football stadiums since I am a fan of said sport. For me, it seems like a sin to waste the opportunity to be in Spain and not attend stadiums like the Camp Nou, Wanda Metropolitano or Santiago Bernabéu.

Some day I would like to live and work in Spain, so I would look for a job related to the degree I am studying, Journalism. If I were lucky in the search, I would lean towards sports journalism. Learning about sports is one of my favorite hobbies, so it would be my dream job.