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English 4, Post 8 [FINAL], 'English Language challenges'

 Merry christmas everybody!!. For this final blog I want to tell You my experience learning english this semester, being honest, I don´t know how to fell about this, on one hand I really like the classes, I found them very good and I could understand them and learn from them, however, most of the lessons where from things that I saw in high school so I saw the classes more like a review of subjects that I saw before. About the blogs, I really like to wrote them, I think they are a good way to practice my english writting at the same time I have the freedom to write in the way I want. But If there is something that I need to improve about my english is my pronunciation, I don´t have a lot of experience speaking english for sometime perhapps I would improve on this for the english programm, now I´m planning to improve my speaking by reading a little bit more of english, perhapps playing videogames and watching movies and series on english. Outside the english class I tend to use engl...

English 4, Post 7, 'Changes to my study programme´

 Hello everyone Today I will tell You my thoughts on my current study programme, at the moment I don´t know to much what I would change, my experience on the university has been very mixed and at some point strange, specially by the online mode the classes had been taking. At the moment the curriculum of biochemistry is based arround 3 main axis, mathematics, chemistry and biology, all of this are essential parts for a scientist and I don´t have too many complains with this, what I do have some kind of discrepancy is the way this subjects are teached, maybe this is due to the pandemic but I find the classes are too fast sometimes, where a lot of subjects are teached very quickly and I can´t keep up with the teacher, specially in organic chemistry where we learn like 8 new reactions per class. The time for classes are not as bad as I thought, I have classes all the days of the week, where Mondays, Thursday and Friday there are classes from 8:30 to 18:00 with some spare time between ...

English 4, Post 6, 'Time Travel to the future'

 The future is something We all want to know, We want to be ready for everything that might happen, , specially prepare ourselves for the worst parts, that´s why I would like to travel to the future so We can know what will happen and what We can change now to avoid the worst parts of It, however, at the same time I would also use this technology for my own benefit, most likely to know my own future and avoid certain events that might happen to me, like the results of my future tests, and my career, perhapps I would also cheat in the present with the information I know so I can be prepared and get a better future for me. It´s very probable that I would travel a couple of years into the future to know my destiny and the decisions I will make, with this information I would try to take the best decisions so I can and avoid the worst parts of my future. However, I would not like to stay there, I´m scarred that I might cause a time paradox staying in the future, because If I don´t go ba...

English 4, Post 5, 'My future job'

 Hello everyone. Today I want to talk about what I want to work in the future, currently, I´m studying biochemistry because I love science despite founding difficult to learn certain subjects, the kind of job I´m currently thinking is one where I work in a laboratory analising samples from various sources, I still haven´t pick an area but I´m considering something like analysis of samples in a hospital, to help the sick or samples found in nature as a environmental analyzer. This job would be divided in an outdoors and indoors part, where the first one would be releated to the collection of samples to study, and the last one with It´s  propper analysis in a laboratory, this could also mean that my future job might be one where I need to travel a lot arround cities and other locations, however, I have no idea about my future salary,  It might be an average salary. I want to end this post telling you that this carreer is harder than I expected, and that my future job might ...

English 4, Post 4, "Strawberries are my favourite fruits"

Greetings everyone: I want to express my love for strawberries today, these are my favorites fruits along side apples and peaches, however, strawberries are special to me, their particular flavour that combines sweet and sour is one of the best combinations to me, It´s small size makes It easy to carry to other places and the fact that I don´t have to remove a peel from It makes me want to eat even more. The bad things about strawberries are three, the first one, the prices, these are not cheap fruits, they are expensive as hell specially when We are out of the season, for that reason every time I see an offer of strawberries I make sure to buy them immediately, however, this comes with other setback, strawberries are not very resistant to the eviroment and rot easily, in my home, If We don´t eat all the strawberries in a week We just dump them into the trash, and the final one, strawberry flavored products suck for me, they are too sweet or to acid, so I will never drink strawberry ju...

English 4, Post 3

Thalidomide: a teaching of why stereochemistry is so important I want to write about something important, the infamous case of the intoxication of newborn babies with the sedative Thalidomide. First of all we need to explain what is stereochemistry and thalidomide, stereochemistry is the study of chemical properties based on the  position an orientation of the atoms that forms them, on the other hand, thalidomide is a sedative sell in mass by drugstores. At the beginning of the 60´s there were alarming cases of newborn babies who were missing their arms and legs, an investigation later uncovered that the cause of this was the use of Thalidomide by the mother or the father  , however,  there were two versions of thalidomide that had two different stereochemical configurations and were produced at the same time, in other words, a simple shift in the position of one molecule created a substance with properties completely different. This case showed to the worl...

English 4, Post 2, The best holidays

 Hello everyone: Today (or the day You are reading this), I want to write about one of the best holidays I´ve been, this was the new year party of 2010, one of the best moments I had as a child . I celebrate this holiday with a lot of my relatives, this were my cousin, my uncles, my grandmother and my parents, the party only lasted for about 5 hours, but I loved every second of It. We did a lot of stuff, We watched a movie but I don´t remember which one, talked, ate and then went outside of the house to watch the firework show, all of this celebration was in my home, and It was very small so We tried to use as much space as possible, either way, I enjoy the company of everyone. The main reason of why I consider this one of the best holidays is because I never had other experience like this in the rest of my life,  sure, I spent other holidays with other relatives but I always felt I didn´t fit in or I just couldn´t enjoy It like this one