our challenges

I think that the biggest challenge for psychology is to be able to say what the mind and the emotions are. There are different theories and they all postulate different and opposite things about this subject, that is why there is not one psychology. If someone asks to a psychologist what are the mind and the emotions, they will answer from the approach that they apply and believe in. For example, if I ask about the mind to a behavioral psychology, the answer will be that the “black box” can`t be studied, so is not considered in the theory, but if we ask to a cognitive psychology, the answer bill be extremely different, it will say that with the mind we significate and interpretate what we live as animals, creating the subjective experience. The necessity to be able to agree with all the approaches of psychology is the biggest challenge and the weakest aspect of my discipline, but is also the best part of it. For me, is fun and necessary that in a profession coexist different ways of seen the word and the human being, because it allows flexibility and freedom to choose which one makes more sense to you, the one you like the most, the one that will help you to accomplish what you want as a professional and as a person. I think that is no solution for this “problem”, which I think is good, but I also think that it can be improved. In the time that I have been part of the program I have observed that the people are not very respectful with the psychologist that do not agree with the way they think, that goes for everybody, even me.

I think that teaching respect for the “different thought” it will improve the relationship that exist between the many types of psychologist, which will help to create a better, solid and complete knowledge created with cooperation and respect.

I think that the other big challenge of psychology is the social role of this discipline. Some people say that the psychologist could be a generator of change or a reproducer of the power relations of our society. I think that we as an active social actor have to question our role in the society and discover what we want to do with it. We need to be aware of what we do, not only in our consult with our patients, but also as a person who participates and influences the social order, so we could know what our actions mean and what we have to do to accomplished our personal goal, as a discipline and as individuals.

The money

I consider myself as a person that knows how to handle money. I have always helped in money issues in my house, I have always been responsible to pay the bills, deposited the checks, distributed the money on travels, control de expenses, etc. This means that I have a lot of experience handling money on a on a daily basis.
I usually don’t have to borrow money from other people, only to my mother that is the person that supports me while I´m not able to make money for myself. But if I ask someone else for money is because I need to by something immediately and I left the money at home, like lunch, copies, etc. And I´m not very good at returning the money, not because I don´t want to, but because I have a very bad memory for that, so If I ask for money I also ask that someone remind me to return it. When I don´t remember in a long time and the persons that borrow me the money ask me for it, I feel very embarrassed, that’s why I always prefer not to borrow money. The big problem with my bad memory for money issues is that I also don´t remember when I lend money to someone else, so If the other person doesn´t remembers, I never get my money back.
A long time ago, I used to pay my bills making very long lines, a few times a month, to pay them , It was a big waste of time and energy, and also very boring. Now, with the technology I pay my bills bay PAC, that is a system that discounts the money directly from your bank account, the company only lets you know how much you expend and why. The other method is paying the bill on the web side of Servipag, you ask for the bills that you owe and you pay them quickly and easy by internet with you bank pin.
I think that the responsibility of teaching us about the money, hoe to use it and the big responsibility that implies, is the responsibility of the family and the school, all the knowledge combined helps people to know better how to manage their finances.

my faculty

I think that the faculty is now in an “upgrade”. Recently they have improved the computer laboratories and the structure of some of the departments. About the computers, I think that is positive that know we have more and better computers, but they are very often used for classes which means that they are not available for the students that needs to work in them. Also, I think that a big improvement would be to be able to print without limit, a 1000 pages a year is insufficient for us, that’s why at the end of every semester we are begging for extra pages or we end up paying to print some else. Also, I would open new study spaces, because we only have the library and is always clouded and noisy, and the study room/casino that t`s a really but joke pretend that a casino is a appropriated place to study just because it has internet and plugs for the computers, that’s why I always end up studying on the grass or in the faculty floor. For all of these reasons, I would like more benches, chair or sofas in the faculty so we could sit, rest, study, work somewhere comfortably. I think that some changes to the faculty it would be positive, because it wouldn’t be some place to come, take the classes and leave, It would be a place for us and ours, where we could develop ourselves as students with all the elements and spaces necessaries.

my practice

Today the topic that I’m going to write is about my practice. I haven`t thought about it until last week, when I saw that the meeting with the teacher in charge of the practices was schedule for thin week. Unfortunately I couldn’t go.
I have always known that I wasn’t motivated to do a regular practice, like the ones that the students do just for obligation without enjoying them. I also know that for my thesis I want to do an investigation about an interesting subject, which means a lot of time and work. So I have decided that I want to do my practice outside Santiago, It doesn’t matter if it is in another city or in another country, the only thing that matters is that I`m not going to do it in my home city.
The main reason to do my practice somewhere else is because is the best option to do a lot of thing that I want to do all at once. First, it allows me to live a few months alone, outside my house, which means, without the protection of mom. It would be the first time that I would live alone, I have stayed in other places for a long time but on vacations; living and working, outside home is a whole different thing. Second, when someone does the practice far away from the university, they give you more options, for example, they could accept that you didn’t completed all the 700 hours of practice for the fact of been away. They also give you more freedom to invest the hours of work in other tope of activities. In my case I could be able to invest some of the time doing the investigation that I want to do and do activities that the people that I’m working with needs.