English Challenges

Hello there, Dear Reader~

This will be the last post in this blog. I must admit that I actually enjoyed posting in this blog... well, most of the time.

This was not my first time making a blog nor will be the last time, I hope, but I think I will be away from blogging, for a long time, so I can focus on improving my drawing skills and my roleplaying skills.

As I said before, it was a lot of fun, writing about interesting topics... also, writing in English helped me to widen my vocabulary, as well to understand better the words I already new (like, in which context we use x word and in which one is better to us y word).

Obviusly, I still need to improve my English... but I think that we never stop improving the languages we learned, so it's okay. Although, I think I did improved a little with spoken English... not as much as I expected, but  half a loaf is better than none.

I guess the only way to improve my spoken English is, literally, speaking in English with a native speaker or at least, someone who speaks it better than me. Oh, and I will, obviously, keep listening to music in English, and watching movies and tv series, as I have always did, because that's a good way of understanding the pronunciation of words from a foreign language.

As I said, I am always using English outside the English class. Where and what for? will you ask, well, I use it while I listen to music or when I sing something in said language (mostly when it's symphonic metal or power metal music), I use English when I watch some movies or tv shows... I even think in english, sometimes. Sometimes, I do speak in english, when I am talking to myself, because I am the only one in my house who have learned the language, so, when I talk to myself, nobody else understand what I say.

I think that talking to myself has helped me a lot with pronunciation, though.

Aaaaaaaaand, that's all for now, for this year...

I would like to thank you, from the deepest of my heart, for reading my (awful) posts. 

Good bye, my dear reader ;)

Changes to my Study Programme

Hello there, dear reader.

Today I will tell you about, well, what the title says... what I would like to change about my actual study programme.

First of all, let me clarify something: I am not really motivated to write about this, mostly because I consider it a boring subjetc to talk about, though it has been a hot topic lately in my career... so I beg your pardon, if I bore you to death.

Well, where were we? ah, right, the changes I would like to do in my study programme... 

I feel like my study programme is kind of fine the way it is, I do not think it needs to be dramatically changed, not at least its compulsory subjects... Perhaps, I change in the elective courses would be necessary.

Let me explain myself: in this four years, I have seen that the offering of electives in some areas of psychology are huge, being more than four or five (if not more than that) different courses for the same approach (like psychoanalysis, where they offer a lot of courses per semester) while in other approaches, there are not more that one or two courses (in humanist psychology, there is one elective course per semester).

 Well, I think that that must change, because I think that is just not fair, for the people who do not want to specialize in the favoured psychological approaches, like psychoanalysis and systemic approach. 

I would like to be able to actually choose electives courses in the area of psychology that I am interested in, and not being forced to choose courses from any area just to have enough credits to graduate from my career. It is just ridiculous that I will be learning techniques and stuff from areas that I do not like or I do hate, and at the same time, I would have not learned a single thing about the are in which I will be working in the future... 

Some people have told me about this that I can "learn on my own" about humanist psychology, but I think that is just plain stupid... if I am wasting five or six years going to an university and paying for it, then I would expect to actually learn something useful there... I can perfectly "learn on my own" about humanist psychology without going to an university, but since I am paying to learn about that subject in an university, I expect to actually do so.

Long story short, I would like to make the offering of elective courses to be more varied, and with a more balanced number of courses per area.

And, that's it, see you next week~