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.