Turtle in the sea

In February of 2010 a big earthquake happened in Chile and the epicenter was in the south of the country. That was my first experience with that kind of phenomenon and was very scary. I think that since that day I became in a person that hates earthquakes because they scare me a lot. In September of 2015 another earthquake occurred, but this time it was less strong and the epicenter located in the north of Chile, specifically in a little village called “Canela”. That place is very close to the village where my grandmother lives so that year my family and I have to travel quickly to my grandmother’s house. Fortunately she was ok, but her house wasn’t. It was a house made of adobe so with the movement it became inhabitable. Was so difficult to my grandmother see how her house was demolished because she had lived all her live there. I remember that earthquake coincided with national holidays –Fiestas Patrias- so for that reason the “fondas” were suspended. If you don’t know what “fo...

Around the end of 2014 I decided that I wanted to focus my future in the social sciences. So I started to investigate about different careers and then while I was looking for the options, I decided to study sociology at University of Chile. As to manage that I had to do the PSU and achieve a good score. Finally I entered in the career that I wanted at the university that I wanted. So here I am in my second year of sociology. So let me tell you about the study programme of my career…  This career lasts 10 semesters –five years- and belongs to Social Science Faculty. But this doesn’t mean that the career doesn’t have a relation with mathematics. For example one of the subjects that I have is statistics! But also I have to read a lot in my others subjects like sociological theory, world history and Chilean history among others. For that reason this career has a big workload. In this point I think that the programme needs a change (okay I know that is so important read a lot, but no...