SELF EVALUATION OF MY ACADEMIC YEAR 2009

2007
Second best place in my class.
NEM (marks of the "middle" teach): 6.5
PSU: 660 points average
Conclusion: i´ll go to make my dream true to the Universidad de Chile to study Veterinary medicine.
Stress: 2 points

2008

Place in university: i really prefer do not mention it...
Marks average: i really prefer do not mention it.....
Failed courses: 2
Conclusion: i really prefer no dot write it or say it...
Stress: 7 points

As we can see, the university change my life in several aspects, and of a very aggressive way. But i did survive to the 2008, and although i couln'd finish unhurt, my spirit still fighter as always.

...2009...

Well, this year i started with a new air, fresh and optimist, thinking that the last just was a bad dream. Everybody have the chance to learn about our mistakes, and i think that i used the last year as an example to do now the things of a better way.
El first semester was very easy for me, i was very confused about it. But, i don´t know, maybe was because i liked more the signatures. I think that this reason cold be enough to make this real. I liked a lot physiology, but others i hated them, like economy or "Population ecology". Them and i just could't fix together.
Other good thing in the first semester and too in the second, was the horse practise. They were so much fun and i learnt a lot. Besides, near of September, was inaugurate the new "picadero" and i, although i can pay it, went and i made a new friend, the teacher Manuel Pizarro. Very good person and a very good teacher i guest.
The second semester was a little different freomm the first. This was a lot more difficult than the last one. We had to learn so many things, so many details and names so much strange! We got confused of a very easy way. And in november we got over a 10 test !! and all the final test. I had no life in these time. But i could survive again, but this time, unhurt !! But i finish the semester completly exhausted. I only want to sleep right now and whn i can "load" a little of energy, WALK !!! I wished so much during the long nights and days of study sitting in front of the computer.

Failed courses: 0
Stress of middle year: 5
Stress of final year (november): 100 points !!
Conclusion...

But well, i could pass to the next year, and although sometimes i can colapse because of the stress, alway i can go on, and today, after the damn november, i believe more in my self, and i don´t think that i am stupid because mmy marks, whose didn´t represent all the time that i use to study the matters of the signatures. I believe that i can reah my goal. And even i am scared of the 2010, because the oldest students say that thirth year is the worst, i have faith on me. And that is the more important thing in the university.

The end =)

CHALLENGES IN YOUR DISCIPLINE

VETERINARY MEDICINE

Because the lives are the most important thing in the world, the health is the most important discipline.
Veterinarian medicine, like all medicines, is a dynamic discipline. Always changing, always with new challenges, always with new information, share by a huge web of scientist, doctors, etc.


Technology

One thing very important in medicine is the patients comfortably. Sometimes, they have to do a very long therapy, like the dialysis. The hospitals, animal and humans, must have special conditions to this patients, and the most faster.
They have to get the last technology to get the best results in their interventions.
The best places (the most expensive ones) have the best of the best technology and for this, the best results. The lives depend of the efficiency and efficacy of their therapy that depends on technology.


Social-Matters

In the discipline that i want follow, equine medicine, the subject "social" is very difficult.
This area is a little complicated for me just for being a girl. The guys that manage to the horses are very sexist. So i'll have to deal with this all my life, until i win their respect. I will have to be strong enough to handle the potential situations.
Other challenge very important for all veterinaryans is the people that think that we work for free. We don´t. Nobody does !
We will have to deal with this people too, so we have to prepare our self to this "lillte" trouble.


Education

As the medicine is a dinamic discipline, always we must to be actualize. Knowing the most amount of things that could use in our job. Educating constantly to ours minds. Never is a plenty of knowledge, they will never be enough. So, until now to the infinity and beyond, we must read a lot about all the things that we could posibly use.

IMPROVING YOUR FACULTY FACILITIES

When i began in university, it was very sample. The best thing was Farm World. But it was dirty and with dry grass and garbage, a lot of it ! But just when we start the year, the thing began to get better: they did new classrooms, new bathrooms, clean the garbage and the dry grass, they made a new gym and the "picadero" and the troy for horses.
The faculty looks so much better now !


But still existing some bad things, like the papers stick in the walls, the blockers are awful and the food prizes are very expensive. I thought that we need too things to explore new areas, like exotic medicine, learning about animals no so common, and we need new buses (the faculty buses are very old and they many times just stay stopped in the middle of a trip).

I think that university it´s growing and getting better, but we still needing some stuffs. We as students can contribute with the clean and just giving information to the authorities to the conditions of us.

SUMMARY FROM A CAREER-RELATED ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN

5 miniature animals that make good pets ...

1. Micro pigs: very intelligent pets, even can learn their names. Affectionate, live until the 18 years old. Need a large garden and a partner.

2. Pygmy goats: is a funny pet ! And they need a partner of their own specie or even can be another like a horse !

3. Falabella pony: their like a dog. They onli can be ridden by a small kids or taught little carts.

4. Pygmy hedgehogs: They are like a hamster: are nocturns and enjoy exercise wheels. They live for three to five years. But this creatures are carnivorous! and have some spines.

5. Miniature mules - A cross between a miniature donkey and a miniature mare. They are a very feisty pets.


This animals and domestic pets, ussed to liuve between humans and their diets. We can supply their needs very eassy ways. They are more animals, including a Pygmy seahorse, Miniature donkeys, Fennec foxes, and even cows (Dexter cows). All of a very small size.




And 5 you don´t...

1.Eleutherodactylus limbatus Is a very tiny frog, they can lose their self very easly way.

2.Albino microbats : like their name, they are a smalls bats. They are very rare. Besides they are albinos.

3.Dwarf caymans: The people forget what they really are. Even being tiny, they are still crocodiles.

4. Pygmy mouse lemur The people do not understand what they do to the nature when took this kind of animals from the nature and put them in a cage. They are very small too.

5. Philippine tarsiers Like the last one, this animal have been stolen from the nature to become a pet. But their "bug" diet and often die in captivity, that no longer seems a good idea.

The majority of this animals are endangered and it´s ilegal have one in their houses and ofcourse, make a market of them. Other animal like Leptotyphlops carlae (a snake so small that the cscientis just discovered 1 year ago. It´s like a warm), Pygmy leaf chameleons, Pygmy marmosets, sand cats (As the name says, they prefer the sand) and Small-clawed otters are very beautiful animals, but they are exotic pets, so inour houses they suffer a lot. They need a lot of space, even being very tiny and need special conditions and food.

LINK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/nov/06/miniature-animals-pets?picture=355223628

MY FAVORITE ANIMAL

When i was a kid, my parents was unable to understand why the only thing that i could talk, speak or even think was about horses. The teachers asked to my parents if they had a farm or if they took me to the racetrack, but they didn´t. I've never could explain it, but i just love them since i can remember.
They are so amazing creatures! For them i always wish to be a veterinarian.

I like all animals, but horses... i don´t know. Once, i created a theory. It is very crazy, but the only way that i can explain this feeling: i lived another life, a past life where i was a farm girl, or a rider, or other job nearest of horses. I know. it sounds crazy, but is the only way !

Their moves, their strength, their eyes, their hair, i don´t know. The feeling when you are riding !!! My god!, i can't express how i felt when for the first time i rode it and galloped. In that moment, i have to say, that was when i felt more free than never in my entire life.

They can be indomitable or very obedient, reluctant or friendly. Through their eyes. that big and beautiful eyes, you can see their soul. You can finally understand what they want to tell you. You can see their free soul.

Maybe that is what i most like of them. Their freedom. Even when they are in their stables, you can see them and you just know that they are really more free than you. It´s the deepest feeling in me. So deep that i though my life around them. I search the way to be near from them, because where i live, the nearest horses are the ones of the street's carts.

Sometimes i discuss with the men of the carts, because they have their horses in terrible conditions. It breaks my heart. The head down, their ears down, their looks down and within any glow in them. It's so sad! It drives me crazy. Well, any animal that is suffering by any person, produce me an uncontrollable angry. I think that in that moments, their looks trapped. That people steal their freedom. They are no horses if they don´t have freedom.

Well, for all these reasons and other things that i can´t even explain in spanish, nor even to myself, i love horses.
They are my pasion, my inspiration, my goal, and i´m not gonna stop, until i reach it. I definitely wanna spend my life with them.

WHAT TO DO / WHERE TO GO IN SANTIAGO

Santiago is a very varied place. A city with a lot of places to visit and things to do.

The place that a foreinger have to visit, is the San Cristobal hill. Is very beautiful. Here are beautiful parks and a wonderful view, a place where we can make exercise, etc. Even we have here the Metropolitan Zoo, that in the present, is impeccable and have a lot of animals. If you want, you can climb the hill until reach the top of it where is the beautiful statue of the virgen, very famous in Santiago. You can see her from every place in the city.

Another place that have to visit, is the Santiago's cathedral. Is so amazing! Its architecture it's gorgeous. Here you can feel an extrange and spiritual energy, that makes you feel safe and protected. Even if the visitor is not believer, the foreinger or any person can go in and see its beauty.

But if you wanna have fun, or do you like go out in the night, a very good place is the "Sala Murano", a disco in Las Condes. It is very big and have an infrastucture very cool. Many people go to visit it from all the corners of the city.

But you can have fun in other kind of places, if you like the free air activities. A very good place is the Mahuida Park. Here are unusual activities, like the "Rodelbahn", that in fact their name meaning is "Hint of Sled", where each car low to speed 60 km per hour, feeling the speed, managed by a lever makes us to live an exciting experience. I have gone, and is very fun! In this park we can do another activities, like "Paintball", fly in helicopter and bungy-springboard. They are very exciting activities.

But my favourite place, although is not really in Santiago, is San José de Maipo. Here are so many things to do!, so many places that you can discover for yourself. You can go to Alfalfal that have amazing mountains, or San Gabriel, where is a hide waterfall and caves, even yopu can reach "Baños Morales" with thermal springs, etc. Besides, the little town in the heart of the "cajón" it´s so Chilean!, where you can eat delicious "empanadas" and lunchs. The people could do really anything here.

Thousands things that the foreigner could do and visit in Santiago!

SEPTEMBER

First of all i have to recognize that i think that i am very patriotic.
I love my country ! and always i defend it of everybody that speaks bad things about it and i hate when people throw garbage in public places. I think than that is like get their own houses dirty ! It´s awful. But speaking about the good things, this country it´s gorgeous! All the landscape that we have, the variety is huge! And the Chileans still travel so far away and sometimes they don't even know ours !
Another thing that i like is the way that Chileans are. Although this can cause a little controversial, because sometimes we are very bad people, but i think that's the way that humans are, not only Chileans. But i think that we are very warm people and very friendly, we like the jokes and we laugh very much!.
The bad thing is that the chileans majority do not see this, and always have a very bad perseption of ourselfs. Few days ago, talk about this in TV news. All the interviwed chileans, talk just bad things about our beatiful contries!, but one peruvian woman that lives and works here, just say wonderful and good things of Chile. She said that Chile is so much clean, arranged, whit a lot of opportunities that she doesn´t have in her contry.
I do not have my personal opinion very clear about the 11th of September, because my family think that it was good in some ways. Although the are not a fan, but they're not against them. They are very RIGHT for this thing, but they are not a fanatic people. So, all my life i been listening this, but my personal experience say me that the politics never say the true, so i think that both politics bands did bad things. I thinks that all that missing persons was murdered, and that is not acceptable. Was a very bad period for us i think, but i look forward, not the past, and i think that the Chileans have to leave this in the past. All the persons that did participate actively are dead now! And i thinks that the people are make the disorders for this date are stupids and ignorant kids that nothing know about the suppoused reasons of the 11th september disorders. Sorry, but i hate them. They embarrase me, really. They and all the delincuents, robbers, rapist, pedophile, etc. Sorry for my emotions, what i most hate in all the world and universe, is that they take away my freedom, and they do that. But, they are arround the worl, exept in Holland i think (lol).
But i always will defend Chile. Beause i have faith in our future generations, they can make grow Chile, and i am sure that Chile will be recognized like a very good place to visit and live.