Post 8 > English Language Challenges

Hi everyone,

Well, I think that these English subjects I have taken at university have helped me a lot to improve. Although at high school I also learned English, now at the university I developed better reading and listening comprehension, I also use words and expressions better in a conversation. My pronunciation also improves a lot thanks to the activities we develop, especially the videos.

By writing blogs weekly I have been able to improve my writing, initially it was difficult for me to write thing on my own in English, because I wasn’t sure if the words and organization were the right ones, but this activity made me accustomed and now I can write more safely in English.

I think that due to the pandemic and the fact that we couldn’t have face-to-face classes, I wasn’t able to develop as much spontaneously speaking in English, my pronunciation and writing improved, but I still find it difficult to speak, I lose concentration and I can’t speak fluently. The presence would have helped me with that, and I think this is the aspect that for the moment I must improve, I could practice with someone who speaks English or with myself out loud to get used to and improve my fluency.

These days I haven’t used much English outside class, only when I read or hear something I can understand it, but I don’t speak or practice it because no one else in my immediate environment speaks English, in addition, the time I have out of class is dedicated to work in other subjects.

Thanks for read,

Good bye.

Post 7 >> Changes to my Study Programme

Hello classmates,

As I mentioned in previous blogs, I’m studying architecture, regarding my study programme I think I would modify it.

As for my subjects, I would not modify them, but I think that due to the pandemic I haven’t been able to learn correctly, it takes practice to better understand some subjects.

I would like the workload and duration of studies to be better organized, I don't like that exactly the last week of each semester all evaluations accumulate, I know all branches must have a final evaluation, but I think it would be better if at least these were distributed in 2 weeks to avoid so much stress.

The infrastructure of the faculty is nice, but I think some classrooms should be modified according to who is going to occupy them, for example, workshops subjects need a larger space to work, but there aren’t enough classrooms, so it would be necessary to expand some or add other facilities, in addition, I would like to expand doors and windows.

Regarding the use of technology, it has seemed quite advanced to me, perhaps because the pandemic has forced us to use it more, but I would like its use not to decrease too much when we return to presence.

Discarding some specific cases, I think that the career has a good teaching method, but it’s definitely much better in person, more is learned through better communication between teachers and students.

Post 6 > Time travel to the Future

Hello again,

I've always been curious about what the world would be like in the future, how things would change physically and how will people think, if everything really would be better, or something important would happen that would make everything worse. If I’d to choose a time in the future to visit, maybe it would be the year 3000, I wouldn’t choose previous centuries because I’d like to see more radical changes in the world and I think that the next millennium is far enough away to see important changes in evolution, and surprising from a technological point of view in my opinion.

I’d very much like to learn from that time if I could visit it, but I wouldn’t stay forever, because in the present time I’ve much to lose and miss, and I also don't think I can adapt so easily to a time that is probably very different, not only for the environment but also for the people, maybe they’ve rules or ways of thinking that I don’t like. Even so, in case everything was very beautiful and great in those years, I prefer not to rush anything, regardless of whether this isn’t the best time that will exist, I want to live it as I should, whatever awaits me in it. I prefer to keep the natural order of things, after all, at this time I was born and grew up, and I want to see the world evolve step by step.