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...