Tuesday, October 31, 2017

time travelling

When I was 12 years old I was fascinated with time travel. At the time my friends and I stared a club in search of time travelers and other fantasies but we quickly realized it was a hopeless task so we didn't search any further. Even if I already know time travel is impossible (because for that you need to travel faster than light, theoretically speaking) I still have a sense of wonder with the trilogy of Back to the Future or Stein:Gates, series that relies on this sci-fi concept.
So the question for this post is ¿What would I do with time travel? and the answer is "everything". With this ability I could do anything: visit the future to see if humans are still living there, visit the past to watch the dinosaurs or even make me the supreme ruler of the world. But ¿Should I visit the past? indeed visiting the past has a lots of problems. First of all ¿Should I kill baby Hitler? Some people might say "yes indeed, you could save us from WWII", but if I kill baby Hitler WWII wouldn't happen thus the Cold War wouldn't occurred and the internet wouldn't been invented and I might not be able to write this post right now. The thing is visiting the past only has three options: visiting and changing the past makes time itself to be re-wrote or it's just another form to visit parallel universes or nether of those because we don't have free will and we are destine to do the things that we have to do...
... So in resume ¿Would I prefer go to the past or the future? No, I wouldn't go anywhere but here in the "present".

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

summer plans

I feel like I already talked about this matter before but I don't quite remember. I think it was in the english video that I sent last week, but that video only mentioned what I expected to do during the holidays. 
Anyways, when it comes to plan the vacations I usually do a regular schedule that consist only in visiting my grandmother who lives in San Carlos, a small village near Chillan. There has been some vacations with other destinations, like three years ago when I went to Valdivia, but those trips aren't planned by me. So this next summer I wanna try to do something different: I want to get a job.
Well, getting a job doesn't sound fun at all and I actually agree. The thing is I need a new PC and materials for the third semester of university, so I would need to save some money. But working is not the only thing that I have in mind.
I'm currently doing historical fencing on Sundays so I'm plannig to stay in Santiago for at least the month of Junuary to practice on a regular basis, thus leaving me February for visiting my gandmother. Now that I remember my mother told me she wanted to go to Valparaiso for this vacations. Perhaps I could go with her and my sisters for a week, but I'm not quite sure of that because she only mentioned once. 
So this is my plan for this summer. Kinda lame but is the only thing that I can come up with.

Friday, October 13, 2017

postgraduate

Apparently I got something wrong in my last post but in my defense the academic system in the UK and the United States it's too problematic with names. First you're in the school, then you go to the high school, then you start a bachelor's degree, then you need to choose a  professional degree, then you start a major and ¿then you start a postgraduate apparently? I don't know how the system works anymore. Here in Chile it's just basic education, "medium" education and superior education as I know. Maybe I'm just an ignorant about all this.

Well... about the last degree of education I mentioned I think doing a post graduate would be a good choice and not just for the money (specially "not just for the money" because here when you have a professional title all the scholarships of the government doesn't apply anymore). As I said I wanna know about town planning but I don't know if it is a valid option. Anyways. I wanna know about town planning because it's what I would do as an architect, not because I would plan it instead the act of building always affect the environment. The only thing is that I don't know if town planning exist here in Chile so I would like to take the course outside of the country. But if I study abroad I would need to sustain myself, so I might have a part-time course and get a job in that country. Now that I'm thinking it would be nice if I study in the UK. Well, only time will tell if I accomplish this.

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

a job a job a job a job a work a job

When I was applying for Architecture after the PSU I didn't knew what I was doing. At the time I didn't considered it as the career of my life because I was "experimenting". "I wasn't prepared for the world" I thought. As any human been I was scared of been "mature" in this new process in life so I was sure I was gonna fail. I was wrong. Now I feel I'm getting used to this career, actually I'm kinda glad of this opportunity. Here I found "things that makes sence" so at this point I might say "I really want to be an architect".
The only problem is I don't know what an architect does. Obviously architecture is about making proyects and molding space but ¿how do they do that? I don't know. I imagine working as an architect might be like been in a clean but messy office with lots and lots of cofee mugs and models for new proyects. Well, sure been indoor is boring but I don't think architecture it's just about making models and floor plans. I think Architecture it's learned by living, so I would like to travel from time to time to europe and the south of Chile to experience the cities, or just walk around Santiago. If I have those thing in my future job I wouln't care much about how much is my salary. Of course I would need money to buy a house, eat and a lot more, but those things wouln't be as important as been in a job that I like. ¿And what happens after that? Well after my degree maybe I could study a major. I don't know really. I would like to study urbanism but only time has the final answer.