English, english, english, and more inglish

I think that learning English is a powerful and very useful tool that you'll use at least once in more than one situation and different contexts. Personally, I enjoy every occasion which means learn something new, so generally I enjoy learning English (despite sometimes I get bored or I have my mind in other place while I should be concentrated in English.)

Part of learning is to practice too. Therefore, writting in some way is a good manner to start training grammar and reading sometimes. Thus, writting blogs is one of the best options to get started!

Personally, I guess that THE thing that I must improve is my speaking, but this is not easy pizi lemon squeezy if you are in a country in which you're not speaking naturally in english... nor spanish properly. So this part of my list of "english things that I must improve before I die" is a problem for the Pancho of the future, not mine. Another thing of my list of english things that I must improve before I die probably would be grammar, because I still having problems with the writting order. Finally, and this is a direct consequence of my almost-non time of reading in english, there are the words! You may wonder why words... And maybe I'll answer you that I'm a poet. Because what is the best thing that a poet does? Create! And I usually create a lot of words but create is not bad...

I listen a lot of music, the most is in english (cuz' spanish metal is very boring). So I'm daily practicing my listening with a lot of accents. I usually read papers or books when I'm studying, but not all the time because is faster when I'm reading in spanish and by now (in stressing weeks) is convenient that way. And don't forget the memes!

Changes aren't bad

Actually, I really don't know which things I may change in my study programme. This because I'm in my first year and there are a lot of things I don't know. Maybe I could answer all this things properly some years in the future.

Chemistry, the key of life

If you ask me how I imagine some kind of dreamed workload and subjects and infrastructure, I may say that I see a big wonderful building with wide spaces, modern labs with vanguard equipment according to the prestige university profile that all the people who's looking from outside imagine. For Pharmacy, chemistry and biology (and don't forget calculus) are the mainstay for the comprehension of all the phenomenons that are related to drugs and its physiological action. Therefore, a good standing of these subjects is the key for a good professional. This implies that we need a system which not only mechanizes some resolution methods, but allows to students to understand the problems which, in a future, she or he will face.

But not all in the life is studying or working. We need some time for us too to get free of stress. In consequence there must be a workload compatible with some free times which allows the student practice sport or activities withing the study programm that includes musical or artistic subjects.

Hey, teachers! Leave the kids alone!

By the other hand, it becomes very useless having a lot of things and principles which allow the students having a good time or getting more instructed in their matter if we don't have  the properly infrastructure. You may wonder why, and the cause is that psychologically our behavior is programmed in function of our environment and some other factors. So if our environment is full of stress and "claustrophobic" we won't enjoy our day-to-day experience and our focus won't be in our work or studies. Because this could affect students and functionaries too.

Holidays, please, holidays!!

All of us NEED want the arrival of holidays as a self-destruction savior way to relax after a very stressful year full of activities. But when the moment comes we only want to sleep because an empty existence full of pain and suffering don't know what to do or where to go, and that's really annoying!

Mess with pup, your time is up

Friends or girlfriend? Why not both? Family or my doggy? Live fast or sleep? OF COURSE I PREFER SLEEP, but I can't say it here because I must have some serious plans and then Telha the almighty will be happy with me Personally, I'd like to go camping with some friends, play the guitar, read a good book, learn more calculus (yes, I'm a nerd but I like it) and BURN ALL THE THINGS THAT COMES FROM THE UNIVERSITY swim, and swim, and swim till my arms are the strong enough to escape from my body.

But that's in Santiago, and sometimes Santiago is bored. I like the beach too! Sand, sun, swim against the tide and return without getting drown in the try (if you can, of course...), and of course that "I MUST NOT DO ANYTHING" sensation that frees even your soul.

Summer of 2015. "Karukinka" Natural Reserve,
Tierra del Fuego.

I like the south more than the north. But in all my vacations, since I have memory, I've been with my family; so it wouldn't be a bad idea if I do something different with some friends or my girlfriend, if I had one. If I had to choose a place as my selected place to stay in my vacations, I guess that I'd say Patagonia, it's really fantastic! BUT is very expensive so I'd only settle with Valdivia, because visiting the Kunstmann's matrix house is one of the greatest goals in my life. Now being realistic, because currently I'm poor, I settle for going to Concepción... which is like being in Santiago but with nearest beaches.

Live fast, die young

There's a wide variety of drugs of abuse: LSD, Anthrax (this is also a very good thrash metal band, another drug of abuse), marihuana, crack, Casimiro's smile... Depending on your neighborhood, your friends and a lot of many others factors, you'll see some of this drugs; being the marihuana the one that, personally, I've seen the most.

Despite I've had the chance of trying marihuana, I've always declined it. I don't know, it's just part of me and my values. In fact, I guess that the hardest drug that I've ever tried has been the salbutamol, it was a very extreme experience; I almost fell into a coma.

If you see the image on the left side, you'll appreciate how an innocent baby is becoming addict to salbutamol consumption; notice that he's trying to fight against this evil woman but all his attempts are futile. By her side, she's smiling because she's enjoying the baby's suffering and she knows that in the future he'll be another victim of one of the most powerful legal drugs of abuse (and he probably die during his adolescence before knowing the love of his life because the illness that salbutamol induces: asthma).

I have a friend who's addicted to marihuana. The most of the time he have his eyes red and "chinese-like" and while he is flying around Saturn, he's always saying non-sense things. But he's funny, I guess. I remember once that he wanted to left this drug, but after a time he said that he NEEDED that drug... researching, I found that this phenomenon it's called the withdrawal syndrome.

Depending on the drug, you'll see different effects: you'll be lazy or you could be more active, happier or sadder... Depends on which drug you like the most (some friends have told me this).

I think that, as a pharmacist, my responsibility is to teach the people which drug is "good" and which is "bad" to avoid the self-medication and with this I can fight the abuse of some drugs, including the drugs of abuse, because I'll have the tools (I hope) to buy fight'em.

The future, the real aim

Nowadays, the professional degree is not enough to get a good job. So it becomes necessary achieve some kind of superior degree. Personally, I'd like to get a Biochemistry PhD and, if I have the chance, another PhD in Pharmacology.

I've always dreamed with study in Germany or England (But Germany über alles), so if I could choose between studying in Chile or abroad, I'd definitely choose abroad! This would be a great plus for my career. I guess that I apply to an university in Germany or England; I REALLY DON'T LIKE STUDYING THROUGH INTERNET; in my opinion, that's not as serious as I want.

Now you might wonder why, a person who in the future will be a pharmacist, would like to have a PhD in Biochemistry. And I would answer you that all my life, since I discovered that I really love science, I've wanted to become a scientist and practice science. Because, for me, this discipline goes beyond than being behind a desk watching if a "water" volume changes of colour or not. But being a pharmacist is only the beginning of a very long scientist career that I hope would end when all things have been discovered. And in the other hand, I'd really like some PhD degree in Pharmacology. Because I believe that this discipline is the esence of the career that I'm currently studying.

Working hard or lasting at work?

I remember that when I was I child I wanted to be an ingeneer, then I realized that the numbers were not made for me... "I don't want to stay sitted in front of a screen in an office" I thought then. Then I wanted to be a medic, I wanted to help people. And finally I decided that I wanted to be a scientist, there was MY area.

In the future, I'd like to work in a laboratory. That's my current motivation (in fact, it is since I discovered that I really like to "make science" and that environment); I guess is something that calls me. I don't care if I don't become rich with science, if I'm happy with what I'm doing that's all what I need.

I wonder if I could travel a lot as I want being a scientist... but if I have the chance, why not? If we talk about work and studies, my dream has always been study or work in Germany. And if we talk about travel just for travel I'd say a lot of places. I really enjoy travelling and staying into the nature (as a good boy scout)

Looking forward, I'd like to take some kind of major in biochemistry. This because I want to follow a pure scientific way rather than being a typical Pharmacist, so I must go further in those skills.

My hobbies!

Currently I don't have any hobby. But somewhere in the past I remember that I collected coins, I had some imperial roman denarius, some coins from the III Reich and an old chilean coin (from 1942). The last one is the only that survives and I still have, the others were unfortunately lost.

After that, at my 13 years, I started to play guitar (and as a boy scout it is very useful), swimming, and even reading; I really love poetry! But swimming is the hobby that I usually practice, because I don't have much time to spend reading or playing the guitar with a lot of exams incoming.

If you ask me what does it mean my hobbies to me... I'd answer you in one lonely, but not less important, word: Freedom. Because, for example, while I'm swimming I feel that I'm flying, I'm free of all that keeps me stressed or even what surrounds me. And that's what I want to feel in my freetime: That I'm free of my routine.

A hobby that definitely I wouldn't have is cosplaying. I mean, what kind of sane people waste their time manufacturing clothes of their videogames, anime or whatever characters! But let's agree to something: some women look very good doing some cosplays...

Our best friend in parties: the liver.

All we have (or we are) that friend that takes care of our drunk friends after or during parties. But that this drunk guy don't knows (or probably don't remember due his or her condition) is that he has a better friend than us that takes care of his body itself: I mean the Liver.

This organ (which is the largest in the human body, it can measure around 25-28 centimeters in length!) sits on the right side of the belly, and its the responsible of all the blood detoxification. So when you're drinking alcohol, there's your liver, are you using drogs? There's your liver, are you drinking some cold beers? Guess what! THERE'S YOUR LIVER! But this organ also can be damaged... With an alcohol  excess we'll probably develope Cirrhosis, eating some out-of-date things could result in Hepatitis, or with a very bad luck it could develop Cancer. So, to keep a healthy liver you must not drink a lot of beer (not so funny as we would like), drinking water, a low-fat diet...etc.

But what does the liver that make it so cool? Easy: Allows you to drink beer! So our liver is a real friend that truly takes care of us when we are on a party enjoying with another persons, so trust in your liver. You love your liver, your liver gives you life (and alcohol).

Tickets for a concert... and for a kinesiologist

It was in 2011, I was listening "Master of puppets" guitar solo when a friend interrupted my favourite part, instead the sound of Hammett's strings now I was listening my phone ringtone. Obviously I felt a little angry, someone has taken my inspiration away! But I took the call. "I have some tickets for the Slayer concert, it will be in June... Will you come?" I didn't have to wonder it twice, damn it! It was Slayer!! In that days I only listened just some metal bands such as Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Testament, and, of course, Slayer... but a concert was something bigger, I never had enough money for one and that call was really unexpected. 

This band, curiously, is headed by a chilean: Tom Araya, and I didn't enjoy his vocal notes... they were very high sometimes and very low another times. But I really love the guitars: very aggressive and fast, accompanied by some kickass drums that could even broke your neck while headbanging (just kidding, but be careful at the headbang if you listen them, or in general... it could seriously hurt your neck and spine).

I remember that the concert day I went after the school, so I was in uniform (Shirt and tie, it was very funny) within a very big crowd of metalheads with black T-shirts, leather jackets and longhair. As anecdote, I was standing in the access queue and one of this metalhead looked at me, he laughed and then asked me "you come from the school?" and I answered "yes", then he laughed again and he said "Fuck you're a true metalhead" and gave me a hug... then I understood: he was drunk.

That night in Movistar Arena I felt very excited, it was my first concert and it was of one of my favourites bands. It was some kind of frantic sensation, the atmosphere was aggressive and sometimes it became psychedelic. It was very funny see many people playing the air guitar as the solos were been played, or some heads going up and down (but their hands never dropped the beer can, that could be some kind of complex ability), singing (or trying to) the songs while in the middle of that people sea a very big moshpit was spinning. All the people were doing thant kind of stuff... so I joined them with my friend. Eventually, the next day I went to the school very sore and almost with my head in a hand... but it was an excellent choice!

A country that I MUST visit

Despite I don't know many countries, I guess that I'd like to visit Germany. It might be something exciting because I really like the history behind this country: Germanic tribes that made a lot of troubles for the Roman Empire, Teutonic knights, a lot of kingdoms united by Otto Von Bismarck, the Nazi ideology... and a very large etcetera.

By the other hand, Germany is one of the most advanced countries in scientific matter. So that's a good motivation to travel there and learn more about the biggest scientific knowledge cradle and its history in this country particularly, which is full of freak facts and a lot of some cruel anecdotes. For example, did you know that the Medic and SS officer during the World War II Josef Mengele "The Angel of Death" made a lot of investigations in humans about genetics in Auschwitz (of course the ways that his experiments were made didn't care about the suffering and health of the persons who were victims of this madness of the "aryan race superiority"), and because of that today we know some new things in this area?

                                 

                     Max Planck                                Josef Mengele                           Hans Adolf Krebs

If we begin to make a list of the scientists who contributed to increase the scientific knowledge, it would probably be a very large list. Because of that, I might say that Germany is the country that all passionate scientist should visit at least once in his life.

If you ask me if I'd like to work or study in Germany... I'll answer you "YAS!", What could be better than have the Max Planck Institute in your curriculum? That would be a warning of you're a real badass in your matter.

Blogging

Usually, I really like to write in moments that I feel sad, tired or even happy. It helps me to carry on and forget the things that could mess up my day. In fact, one of the things that I love about writing and all that includes letters is poetry; I guess that is a very personal but powerful escape route from the bad things.

In general, this blogs had allowed me to improve my grammar in writing , play chess, and I could feel free respecting what I'm writing about although some days I didn't have the motivation, or the inspiration (like today) to write about something in special. Anyway, the most of the days that I was writing blogs I laugh a lot with some posts of my classmates and the images that they put in their blogs.

If you ask me what do I would like to write about in the future, I guess that I would answer "about chess". Well you would wonder why chess; because chess is one of the games that the most of the people have heard about but only a few know how to play it "well". But what they don't know is the interesting history behind this "boring" game that only some "geeks" are able to play. In the future, I'd add some kind of free theme to give a little of variety to this blogs... but only once.

Finally, I only hope to have many chess matches left in my life and keep enjoying writing.

Some Notions About CRISPR-Cas9 Technique

One of the most important applications of Molecular Biology is the capacity of manipulation of some organisms genome. This has been used as a very important tool for different purposes like gene therapy.

Beneath this context there are a lot of techniques that are used in a very diverse fields. Within this, we could refer to PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), Electrophoresis, etc. Inside all this techniques developed some years ago, we can find one that's a pretty little younger: CRISPR-Cas 9.

Well, ¿What's that? In a simple way (i'ts a very complicated techinque such as the most of Molecular Biology techniques are), it allows to us to alterate and manipulate the genomic expression of an organism (particularly, a bacteria) using some chemical cutters as "molecular scissors" in the DNA. This could (and in the practice it does) allow to develop some anti-viral or pathological bacteria  mechanisms at a molecular scale. 

I knew of this technique during a molecular biology that I made during the school. In fact, that was the reason why I started to read some papers (in English) and started the scientific literature reading. Since this I improved my reading capacity and now I'm able to, at least, understand what are telling me while I'm talking about science with a scientist or someone who dominates the science.

I guess that this technique, for me as a pharmacist , brings to me the job to develop the molecular tools which are necessary for use CRISPR-Cas 9 and I choose it because is a beautiful way to play to be god. For the humans, this could mean a great advantage in the struggle against the viruses and diseases.

My Currently Enjoyable Subject

During my short life as a student I've always loved Biology. I used to say that I wanted to be a mad scientist when I grow up, and from then to now only remain to become a scientist hehe. But the years keep passing and during that time I understood that if I wanted to study the Biology at the level that I want (molecular Biology) I must comprehend the Chemistry behind all that mechanisms. So I decided to immerse myself in the Chemistry world. At the point in which Chemistry became my second favourite subject; I reach the point of being able to imagine what is happening inside a molecular system (when I discover it i felt very excited) and, through just logical steps, solve a lot of problems. For a while I participated in the National Chemistry Olympics and in the Chemistry Academy of my school, all because of once I helped some classmates for a test and I realized that I could easily interpret the process inside that; then I never quit to this subject.

But that's now in the past. Nowadays I'm rediscovering this subject at some deeper levels, the classes combine the theory with laboratory applications (and that's pretty good!) but just in the paper and, with the time, this has become a little boring. Despite this, I'm still in love with Chemistry (not as I love Biology but well, I can't be always perfect) and I keep the curiosity about discovering new things that I will be able to apply in a future.

The Scientist that I admire

There's a lot of scientist which I could speak because of my admiration for them. But there's one who I could say "I'd like to be as him", and his name is Bruce Alberts.

Alberts is a badass of the cellular biology. He was born in 1938, in Chicago, USA. He studied Biochemstry at Harvard, place that, also, has granted him his Biochemistry Ph.D in 1965. He has worked in the Princeton's Department of Biochemical Sciences and later in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the University of California, San Francisco. Currently, is the chief editor of the Science magazine 

During his life, he has studied principally the proteins that allows the chromosomal and DNA replication. He served to as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (1993-2005), and he is very compromised with the improvement of the scientific education. This is one of my personal reasons why I like his work, besides this, he has the greatest book of cellular biology (a really backache because its weight).

As anecdote, I met him once he came to Chile visiting a program of portable laboratories program that belows to Jorge Allende (another big scientist) and in which my school was participating. So, as the president of the Biology Academy, it was my work to receive him in te biology labs of my school.

I can remember that that opportunity I said "I don't have to be a genius to become a great scientist", and he felt really fascinated at hear that one young boy could say that about science in general... But that he never knew was that this cute innocent young dreamer will pass from a really mad amateur chemist:





To a very stressed and death inside poor Pharmacy student like this:

My favourite books and films

Despite I'm not the kind of person who's always reading a book, I really enjoy the Stephen King's books and some poetry books (specially from Mario Benedetti, my father loves Neruda; but I think that his poems are very sad). The first time that I've readed a King's book I was fifteen, it was "The Mist" I really like it because the horror and fear sense that it made me feel was amazing. I mean, I wanted to stop at the same time that I wanted to continue the story while some kind of awful events were happening. After that book I bought "Cell", another masterpiece for me that I ended in three frantic days; and the last book from King that I read was "The Shining". Sometimes I wonder why I enjoy the psychological terror, but why stop to think when I can enjoy it? I recommend that kind of books, it catches you with the plot till the end.

I have many movies to pick, so is very hard to choose one of them. But if I should choose one, I guess that it would be reservoir dogs. I really like Tarantino's films, but this have a special place in my personal ranking. I saw it with a friends some time ago (I don't remember exactly when), and the story that tells and how it is narrated is fascinating. If you're one of those who enjoy an evening in the living room with a good story to see, you'll enjoy reservoir dogs. Another movie that I'd recommend is 2001: Space Odyssey, that is one of the movies that you really MUST see at least once in your life.

One of my favourite photos

Many photographs have been taken from me since I can remember: some summer camps, the typical nude baby photograph that our mothers ALWAYS have in an ancient album, with friends, birthdays celebrations, and others.

But this photograph is one of the specials for me, because it have an important meaning for me. I was in a scientific camp in Patagonia (specifically in Karukinka natural park) at the beginning of my "adventure" to discover what was my "purpose" for the future. I was passing by a very difficult moment in different meanings, so that camp helped me to relax and enjoy the nature itself in other ways.

It was taken by one of the teachers who led this camp in collaboration with some scientifics from a wide diversity of areas, and with whose I became a good friend. We, and other fourty four persons more, were standing at the top of the tallest hill of the sector (which name, sadly, I can't remember) then I wondered: So that's how it feels to achieve the highest goal when I decide to reach it. Then I thought that it should be good to save that moment in a photography, looking down to the hard way that I had to travel before my reward. And which place is better for a photography than Patagonia? So that is, I guess, the meaning of this photography for me now that I look it after three years: Work hard to get the biggest rewards.

Music In My Life

When I was a child I remember some songs of Chayanne, Marc Anthony or Elvis Crespo that my mother heard in those days, now I'm very distant from that kind of music: I think that is boring to listen the same music style for a long time. Despite this, my favourite style is thrash metal; it's aggressive, with powerful guitar riffs and drums that came directly from hell. Nah, just kidding; but I like the speed and the frenetic environment that thrash creates, it's a good motivation for moshing and put a fist in someone's face.

In my darkest past, I listened reggaeton only because it was a trend in my classmates and, obviously, I wanted to fit in the group. With the time I adopted the idea of not being one more of the group but a leader of that group, I don't wanted to be another sheep that blindly follows what other people say; so I took my own musical way to the metal. While I was developing a better sense of music, I learned to play the guitar, I learned to enhance my taste of different styles and how to enjoy them with the company of my guitar "Manuela" (a good name for a better mate): cumbia, salsa, rock, jazz, other kinds of metal, even reggaeton, pop and romantic songs (this was a good weapon with women when I had the time to spend in my guitar).

The most of my friends plays an instrument, violin, drums, bass, guitar, ukulele, piano, and others variations and some exotic instruments. And within my friends I can find a very big variety of music: metal and many of its variations, reggaeton, bachata and cumbia, even K-pop.

I've changed of favourite band a lot of times: at the beginning I liked Metallica, then I liked Judas Priest, then Sodom, then Pantera, then Slayer, then Testament... Currently I'm between Exodus and Slayer. Because, damn it's Slayer and Exodus! There's no other reason. Choose between one of them it's just like choose between a tasty choripan or an italian completo.

In the movies, the song that I most remember is "The Eye of the Tiger" from Rocky. That was the first song that I learned in guitar.

My History with the Computer

Since I can remember, I've always used a computer. I can remember a lot of moments with my dad playing Quake II and some kind of fly simulator which name I can't remember.

Is very difficult to pick one of all the technologic things that I actually use and say "THIS is my favourite", because I enjoy each one in different ways. Although this, I guess that the computer is the most useful tool that I have and enjoy. It helps me to study, I can spend my free-time playing games in it, listening to music, watching some series or movies and it allows me to mantain some communication with my friends. I can't remember since when I use a computer, I only remmeber that I only used it for playing.

Currently, in the university, I have a lot of books to read, a lot of jobs to do and so many things that I must to do as a part of my study. For this, the computer is my best friend because I don't have the money to buy the texts or the best caligraphy to write by my hand all the jobs. For this, I'm using my computer all days in great part of the day reading some PDFs or writing .

I thing that without a computer, my life would more difficult and boring (just a little boring I guess). Because I wouldn't play Pc games as Age of Empires, Call of Duty and more geek games. In the other hand, I should write my university reports without the comfort of a keyboard and that would be really annoying because that could imply more time for the report than I currently spend for write that kind of documents.

Why I choose to be a Pharmacist

When I was in primary school I thought of becoming an engineer. That's because of the money they reached at that moment; but later I realized that maths at that level were to high, and boring, for me. I needed something more interesting for studying or even just for hobby - when I thought that study could be easy and more relaxed than now- to fill my free time. In the high school I developed found some preferences by the biology subject; only because I liked the teacher that I had: you don't see a beautiful blonde blue-eyed young teacher within a men school everyday! So I had the obligation to study always with the objective to catch her attention. By the time, that "teacher conquering" idea - now as a remember is very funny; because despite the ridiculous it could sound, it led me to took the biologist elective for my lasts high school years hehe - disappeared , but I kept my interest for the biology science.

At my my second year of high school I started a very long adventure at school science level that lasted to the end of that period, which includes the Chemistry and Biology academies of my school, places in which I found where was my passion: Science. I went to a science camp in Patagonia (the best ten days of my short life), led some school scientific projects (actually I'm ending my last big school scientific project in collaboration with the Biomedical Neuroscience Institute from the Universidad de Chile) and, as a great and "glorious" ending of my president of the Biology Academy (yes, a real proud nerd) career, I organized the biggest Scientific Fair made in years in my school. In which we had some national science prizes, scientists and a lot of things that me and my organization team requested. All my tasks were accomplished, now my projections had to aim another way: Become a real, and mad -you couldn't be a good scientific if you''re not mad, could you?-, scientific.

As a consequence of my big enthusiasm, I met a very large list of persons who worked in science: biologists, pharmacists, biochemists, medics, even some mathematicians. At the start, I wanted to be a medic, then chemist, then biologist, but finally I decided to become the best - for me at that moment - of that list: a biochemist. And at the moment of that decision all the paths turned for that colour. Everything was good, I had the ideas, the motivation, "I can with that career". BUT I don't had the time for prepare the test that "will decide" the way of my future: the feared PSU.

I did the PSU, I didn't have the needed score to biochemist, fell in depression, I got up, look for a side: nothing; looked for the other (with the help of my academy teacher): Pharmacy. ¿Could I become a Scientist? Yes. ¿Could I have a good job? Yes, and a better job than a biochemist - without overlooking them. I still believe that all the important biologic discovernments in the past were made by biochemists -. ¿Could I investigate? OF COURSE! Ok, I made my choice.

Until now, the University has become some kind of second house. It's likely my school from where I come: very good friends, suffering in the air, some death cries when the teachers deliver the tests... just like in home.

My projections to the future are in the scientific world, within a lab creating knowledge and always trying to improve the science in Chile. Because now there's no future for those who are dedicated to investigate; the answer from the government? "Your investigations are no related to the country interests".

Getting to know each other

I'm Francisco Fuentes C., the first of three brothers. My mother is from Santiago and my father from Concepción; for a while he began to study Biology in the Universidad de Concepción, but he couldn't finish it because my grandfather's death. Therefore my father had to do the military service. Thus, a couple years after that, he came to Santiago where he met my mother.

I studied in Instituto Nacional, place in which I've spended the most of my time; even more time than I use being in my own house for the last six years before university. I'm a boy scout too, and although my short time in the scout movement, I've learned to appreciate and enjoy it as a way of life, allowing me to see many things of my day-to-day experience with a different perspective.

While I was in Instituto Nacional I became the president of the Biology Academy and, someway influenced by my father, I fell in love with biology and science in general (except physics, it only gives me headaches). I met some great Scientifics as Bruce Alberts and Jorge Allende, I visited so many laboratories from Universidad de Chile and from Universidad Católica (personally I prefer the Universidad de Chile laboratories) and all those experiencies droves me to choose that I wanted a scientific life as a pharmacist. Because it allows me to continue with my curiosity such in biology as in chemistry, and I really like the idea of being a laboratory mouse too.

In my free time, I play the guitar, listen to music (I like thrash metal), swim or play age of empire if there are no exams during the week.