Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)

This sort of article or brief essay is going to be very difficult, but useful and positive, because we are not used to thinking in how our year resulted, what were the problems, and also what were the most important aspects of our career, our subjects and our lessons. This year was really very complicated and stressful, but also was a very interesting year. In the first term, I had to take many courses of each one of the lines of psychology, so it gave me an overview of my discipline, which contributed to improve my knowledge and interest on it. In the second half of the year I could choose the lessons and subjects that I wanted which improved the situation, because finally I could feel myself comfortable, calm and interested.
In the first term of the year, the situation becomes a little complicated. Some subjects had not proved what we expected of them. Personally, I hoped to get closer to clinical area and know a little more of it. However, this subject was quite precarious and disorderly. The contents that were taught were not the most appropriate, and we could not really know much about what really does a clinical psychologist in the different areas of this discipline. While other subjects such as occupational and organizational psychology, took care of me through many hard times, and for the first time in my university history I had to give an examination in a subject. However, I had the opportunity to meet educational and community area of psychology, which I find very interesting and attractive.
In the second term of this hard year, I finally had the opportunity to choose the subjects that I preferred to take, which completely changed things and make them better. I choose to take educational, community and child-youth areas of psychology, mainly. This was a great change, because I found a lot of things that I had always be waiting. I really found a reason to study psychology and a goal to follow. I discovered I could mix my passion, theatre, with this discipline to achieve profound social changes, and at the same time to eat (hahaha). I decided to follow the line of educational psychology, for mix it with arts education and community work, and now I feel calm and satisfied.
With no doubt, this year has been a very complicated, stresfull and hard year. But, in the other, this year has been a year where I learned a lot and I also found sense of many things I do. Now I believe that I can work in the real word, without giving up what I believe, my dreams, or my tastes. I'm confident I can change many things, and I am also committed to many projects and activities and hopefully fulfill my promises. I hope that all my dreams come true and I appreciate how hard this year was because it taught me many things.

My faculty

The situation in my faculty has always been a difficult, complicated and agitated. There are a lot of demands of students and employees that haven’t been heard. The grade of participation is very low; nobody gets involved with the demands of this group. Is common to see some students trying to convince other students, but the results are harmful. Many of us have listened their points without any interest although these are very important aspects of our career, and also about our faculty. It seems like anybody would be interest on these. Unfortunately, when people who decide the most important things in our university do what they like to do with our money, or our points of view, it’s so late. Nobody is going to do anything to make the things better, because of you have been wasting your time in other things, less what you should it. I’m not a saint. I haven’t participated on this movement, but I’ve tried. I guess the way to make all thing things better is to create other spaces to participate, different ways to take part of some movement, ways we don’t’ know yet. A first step to resolve this situation and improve this reality is to get a way to include and incorporate other ways to express and communicate. On the first term of this year I tried to concrete this idea with a group of friends. We created the collective “Miercoles” which came to changed way to express and demand. In our group we worked to express our demands in an artistic form. We use to appear the spaces in our university, and our performances took part in the middle of our faculty.
This was a way to take part of the faculty, create common spaces and feel ourselves like true participates and actors.