Learning English

Learning English is an excellent opportunity that the university provide to us because is a tool that will help us for too many things.  I think is important that we never stop learning and practicing English because in that way we will not lose what we have learn so far and we will keep improving our English.

Personally, I think that I don’t have a bad base of English, but I know that I have too much to learn.  It has been a very enriching experience to have English classes in the university this semester.

With the blogs I had to think and write in English once a week, what has helped me to get used to the language.  Even so I have realized that I have a lot to improve in my writing, so I would like to continue practicing.

Also in the grammar classes I think that I had learned a lot.  Although as usual I am easily distracted, it had not been difficult for me keep my attention in the classes, because the teacher always does didactic classes in which it keeps you participating.

Outside the English classes I always watch movies and series in English and sometimes I take out the subtitles, and if I do not take them out I try not to read them.  I also hear a lot of music in English, but I am not used to speak or write in English outside the English classes.

Finalizing, in hope that in the future I could travel to another country to improve my English.

Changes to my study programme

Although I like my career I think that the University can improve it a lot.

First of all, I think that the infrastructure it’s in worse conditions, it is hard for me to understand how an architecture´s school does not respond to the spatial needs and demands by the students. Unfortunately, the improvement of the infrastructure is slowed down by the restrictions that the buildings have for being historical icons.  I think is time to leave the restrictions behind because the increase of admitted students that grows every year generates an evident lack of space, so every year is more necessary start making changes.

Another thing that is important to improve is the teaching ability of the professors, because they are just professional architects, and even if they are very good professionals that does not means that they have teaching skills.  So I propose that every professor has to attend at least one teaching course.

I also think that the workload imposed by most professors is too heavy, I think is urgent to change this especially in first year, professors has to understand that the workload is not directly proportional to what students learn, on the contrary, the only thing they achieve is that the students get frustrated with all the workload they have, because they can’t rest and neither give the best of themselves.

Besides this are much more things that can be improve in the University, the important thing is to keep the progress of the school.

Legalizing drugs
To begin I think that all drugs are bad, whether they are natural or synthetic.
They are substances that alter the nervous system and have negative effects
on the body and in the mind particularly.  Maybe it is not so terrible to try
some mild drugs just few times, but if you have an addicted personality and try
any drug might become a problem to you and those around you, and sometimes it's
hard to know how vulnerable you are to falling into an addiction.

Addiction is a problem because it is wrong to depend on a substance to be
stable, that's what the drugs do, they cause personality and emotions problems,
and the recovery from an addiction is a difficult and long process for the addict
and his or her family. The recovery process must be done with
the support of the closest people for the addicted.

In a way the ideal would be that no drugs where legal. In regard to
marijuana I think it is a problem that is a better accepted drug, because although it is
natural and it is not as strong compared to other drugs, it is also a drug and
generates addiction.

On the other hand I also think that it is a good option to legalize marijuana to stop
drug trafficking and increase safety on the streets. This will only work if the authorities
generate an awareness of what marijuana is and the problems it brings,