Having music in my life!

Well, I should say today that my favorite piece of technology is my cell phone. I don´t think necessarily that my cell phone is the best technological article in the world, but in function of my needs and abilities it is perfect.

I got the Nokia 5130 express music mobile phone and it is the perfect technology for me because I can listen to music thanks to it.

I had plans during a long time of buying an mp3, but when I realized that I could have both (the cell phone and the mp3) in the same object and with a lot of storing capacity, I had nothing more to think about it.

So the last year I got it, and since then my and “it” are inseparable. Now I listen to music everyday: when I am travelling to home or University, when I am reading or studying, etc.

In first place, the main features of my cell (for me) are that: has high quality sounds and also have high definition headphones for real music effect. In second place, in my opinion it is a very light and skinny cell phone. And thirdly, but not less important, I got this phone for a very low price.

So well, although I am not a very technological person, I am in love of my cell phone because it brings music to my life.

Perfect Job?

Well, definitely this is not the perfect moment to ask myself which will be my perfect job.

I don´t know maybe it is the pressure of being so close to the end of the career, or because I being noticing the difficulties of the job market. But, this could be the time to dream... I always wanted to have an investigation job, whether it will be at the university, in some research center or in a place like CEPAL, PNUD, etc.

In first place, I wish to job in a place where I will have some kind of freedom about the topics of research, approaches, and even theories that can be used.

In second place, I hope that the results of my researcher efforts could have some kind of impact in the society. So this is related for example, with the idea that studying public policies should have as results the modifications or improvements of them.

Well, besides of what I’ve mention, I will definitely love to performed in a good work environment. And obviously, will be terrific to have friendly and smart colleagues where I could find feedback (ajajaj).

Even so, or maybe cause I been pessimistic lately, I think that my dreams are kind of difficult to get, or maybe need big career efforts, like studying a lot, making good contacts (ajaja) and things like that. But well, it is a road that I am willing to go around it...

Characterizing people in the Faculty of Social Sciences

I don´t know if in all the faculties of this University, or even in other universities, there is such a big process of reflexivity about the “kinds of people” as it is in here.

It may be related with the careers that are part of this faculty, or maybe it is just the reactions of being into sciences and the cognitive capacities that we develop.

Firstly, exist the classic division between the rural and the urban (specifically “santiaguinos”). Definitely I am rural and when I came to University it meant a lot of joking, like people asking me if I raised chickens in my hometown or if my transportation were horses

Well, also there are the hippies (the real ones and the ones that take only the fashion part), geeks, revolutionaries, politicians (the yellow ones, the communists, the ones that love the role of the bases, etc), researchers, among many other categories.

In one hand I think I am kind of a geek, but partially, cause I love to have fun also (only if time allow it). On the other hand, I should say that I am a “researcher” (or I hope to be), cause definitely I used my time on it and I have enjoyed it.