Workshop 3

During this semester the subject I have enjoyed the most is "Workshop 3", although I am taking this course for the second time and last semester I didn't have a good time with this subject, as I had a microfracture in my right hand and that's why I was a lot behind in my work. However, this semester it has been the opposite, it has been a subject that I have been able to enjoy, I have drawn a lot and experimented with shapes and colours. The workshop as such is not a subject that teaches matter, but rather they teach you to draw plans, textures and to represent projects. They have made us experiment with materials such as plaster, cardboard, fabrics, among others. I like this subject because it is very artistic, I relax drawing and creating projects, I like working with different types of materials and it is quite fun to see the variety of shapes that are created throughout the workshop.

At the beginning of this course it was difficult for me to adapt, because of the creativity involved, at the beginning of this semester I was not doing very well in the corrections, but then when I understood what the course was aimed at, I started to do much better and I started to have fun while I was working. It's funny that I like this subject, because in the previous workshops I used to get more stressed and cry because of the pressure.

My most precious photo

 

This is a photo that I like, because I remember perfectly that day it was taken. In 2018 I remember I was looking for one of my ferrets, his name was Binks, he was a naughty ferret; playful and affectionate, he loved to sleep in the strangest corners, that day I remember well that when it was time to put him in his cage, we couldn't find him, I looked for him for at least two hours, I shouted around the house "Binks come here" and as he didn't appear I started to worry and despair, After several hours it occurred to me to look in my younger sister's pyjama drawers and there he was, sleeping peacefully, without a care in the world, as soon as I saw him, I felt my soul return to my body. Now when I tell it I laugh to think where he hid to sleep, however at the time I remember it wasn't funny, I cried a lot when I tried to look for him. Well the reason why I like this picture in particular, is because it makes me remember an anecdote of my little Binks, he passed away from cancer at the beginning of 2021 and seeing pictures and videos of him makes me happy, because I can remember how he was when he was alive.

And I remember how happy I was when I was with him, he was my happiness, my world and my everything, he was the one with whom I learned what it was to be responsible for a living being and who taught me the pain of loss, the memories I have with my little Binks are the most precious to me.

My Faculty

The degree I am studying is Architecture and the changes I would make to the study plan is to remove the transversal and CFG, as in a way they are filler subjects for the university degree. Another change I would make is the academic load that is given to students in Architecture, there are times when we sleep with luck 1 hour a week, literally 1 hour, this is because they overload us academically and there is not enough time to do everything in a day.

On the other hand the faculty of architecture of my university should be better, the few spaces of expression of the student body were removed, whenever the students try to do something to feel part of the faculty, those of "Block A" take it away, an example of this are the white boards with drawings made by students, these were not in the way at all, however they still removed them, speaking of infrastructure there are rooms that have very little lighting and are very small and there are other rooms that are raining, if it is a faculty of architecture and architects leave the place, why do not they fix the faculty? I know that the place is a heritage site, but even though it is a heritage site, they should fix what is bad. There should also be an infirmary in the faculty, as we students often work with heavy and dangerous machinery and if there is an accident we have nowhere to go, there are people who have injured their hands and have to run to an emergency room to be attended to.

With respect to the teaching methods each professor has his own teaching, but there are professors that their teaching is not worth anything, since in this faculty they hire mainly architects and not architects who also have a teaching degree, there is a lot of difference between being an architect and a teaching architect, to teach in my opinion they should have a teaching degree, since not anyone can do it, for these reasons there are very aggressive professors and those who leave the students with psychological damage, there are also students after a semester with certain professors who have to go to therapy. I do not think they should continue to allow things like this anywhere, as not everyone who works here knows how to have an effective teaching method.

Summer with my nona

My ideal plan for this summer is to go to Ireland, because almost a year ago my best friend went to live there and she told me to go and visit her, my best friend's name is Isidora, however I call her Nona, she is my soul mate, they say that soul mates come in many forms, it can be your partner, it can be someone in your family or it can be a friend you have, in my case she is my Nona and I have no proof of that, but I have no doubts that it is so, is someone I love with my life and what I want most for my holidays is to go and see her. In the country I don't really know what places we will visit, however what I do know is that we will have a wonderful time, with her I always have a great time, my Nona is my safe place in this world. We both like Harry Potter and everything that has to do with his world, in fact her Hogwarts house is Slytherin and mine is Hufflepuff, my best friend told me that if I could go to see her we would go to London together and we will visit all the places that have to do with the world of Harry Potter.

Inuyasha

To put Inuyasha in context, it is an anime from 1996, I first saw this anime when I was 10 years old, I watched it on the TV channel "ETC". Inuyasha is my favourite anime and my favourite series, every time I watch it again I feel the same emotions as the first time. Well in this post I will talk about how the main couple of the series is toxic and why they shouldn't be together.

Although I really like the main couple of the series, which are Aome and Inuyasha, I must admit that I don't like how toxic these two are, Aome is a very naive character, she always goes back to wherever Inuyasha is, even though he prefers his ex, (who is otherwise dead and her name is Kikyo). To contextualize again, Inuysha's ex died because of a trick of the main villain of the series, called Naraku, however Kikyo was able to come back to life thanks to a witch who put part of her soul in a body of mud and bones. Because of this, just as Inuyasha and Aome are beginning to have feelings for each other, she reappears, complicating the story. Now back to what I was talking about before, Inuyasha always has to choose between Kikyo and Aome, he chooses Kikyo, leaving Aome as second choice, this situation is constantly repeated until Kikyo dies again, literally Inuyasha's ex had to die for him to choose Aome, that is to say that until the end he put his ex as first choice, even though she was just a body of mud and bones in the form of Kikyo. In short, Aome was never Inuyasha's first choice and I don't think she should be with someone who never knew how to make her his first choice.

Postgraduate

Personally, I would like to do a master's degree in Landscape Architecture, which is a programme at the "Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile" university, to be honest, although it is a postgraduate course in Chile, I would like to study remotely, as I would like to work and study at the same time, as I said before I want to study in Chile, because I don't know if I want to study something abroad, although I know that studying somewhere else would give me other views of architecture, I want to first study at another prestigious university in Chile, to have different views of my own country.

All the subjects of this postgraduate course attract my attention, I like the area of landscaping in architecture, it is a beautiful area of my career and I think it is what I want to dedicate myself to in the future.

My future job

Architecture is a career that has many areas and a lot of job opportunities, I like my university career, I feel that it goes well with my personality, I have always liked handicrafts and making drawings, that's why I chose to study this. On the other hand, so far I have been interested in the area of landscaping and I would like to mix it with the architectural design of buildings and cities.

I would like to be one of the future architects who create architectural works that help the environment and the city. I imagine myself working in a place that is a naturally lit building on the inside, I like to look outside while I work, so I imagine an office with a big window that faces outside.

If I am honest I still don't know if I would like to travel for work, I think it depends on where I have to go, if it was the USA I wouldn't like to go, I really feel that it is not a country I would like to visit. However, if it were a city in the south of Chile, I would love to travel, I would also like to go to a European country and if it were a country in America, I would like to go to Canada. All of these are places that I would love to visit or travel to for work.

Regarding the salary, I haven't seen yet how much an architect earns, nor I haven't estimated how much an average architect could earn and that's why I don't know how much money I want to earn.