A stressful week: how to survive?

Well, at the university who don’t have a horrible week, with many works, tests, quizzes and more class? I think nobody. Today I will write how we can survive to difficult weeks. First we must to keep calm, an useful option is to make a list with the priorities, then we can to assign one hour for each work. It’s very important to make breaks after forty five minutes, because our concentration decrease in this moment, break can be five or ten minutes. Other important thing is our food, it must be very nutritious, but it can’t be very much or very heavy food. To achieve a good study we must stay in a silent place, without distractions. To avoid pay attention in useless things or to fall asleep, we don’t must stay in our bed. We must are in a special place for the study. Other thing that we make in a very stressful week is to stay up late, but it’s very bad for our healthy. Sometimes we can’t to avoid staying up very late, but when there is time to study during the day. Finally after a stressful week, we must to relax and maybe to go out of the house. Go to the park, to the party or anywhere.

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My favorite piece of technology

At present many technological objects have entered in our world. Many of them are very useful. Of all technological objects that I know, my favorite piece of technology is the DVD player, which is to watch movies in your own house. My first DVD player was a gift of my father three years ago in my birthday. I use my DVD player to watch movies, documentaries or recitals that I rent in video clubs near my house. I use it often, every week, especially every weekend, when I have time, although sometimes I can’t watch films, because at the university there are many works and tests. I love watch movies, especially thrillers and I can’t go to the cinema always, the DVD player helps me to watch them. I like stay in my house when it is raining in winter or with my friends in summer and to see many good films. I don’t know how would be my life without DVD player; it makes me funny in bored moments and it let me share good moments with my family, my friends or my classmates. Besides DVD player is useful in class, when we have to see a documentary or a film about any subject in college or in university. Finally DVD player is very useful for movie’s fan.
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Practice or theory?

Today I want to write about our faculty’s life, specifically about how we, “los socialinos”, are making a life agree to social sciences. I will start telling you that I saw here when I arrived one year ago, many politic groups called “los colectivos”, invited us to work with them. The problem in our faculty maybe is how to integrate the theoretical with the practical work and each group offers different alternatives to solve. We can find many options to participate in society and contribute with our studies and our theory, for example some group make volunteer works in poor neighborhoods, others make free courses P.S.U. preparation and there are groups who give class to leaders from this city. Sometimes it’s difficult to make tangible work, because our formation in studies is not near to the real world and we can read important authors and writers, but the real life isn’t always like theory. We try, as social scientists in progress all the time make a good work in practice and in theory. There is still work to do, but every day there are people in this faculty who try and it is the most important.
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A great woman

Simone de Beauvoir (1904-1986) was a French woman philosopher, writer, novelist existentialist, but the most important is that she was one of the promoters of feminism. She partnered with Jean Paul Sartre; she met him at the Sorbonne when both were studying philosophy there. Simone de Beauvoir was one of the founders of the magazine "Modern Times", with Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre. She was an early feminist who wrote at a time much more difficult for women than the present time, she had to face a "man's world." In one of his most important works is “The Second Sex”, an essay that talks about the historical role of women and explains why our society limited them in many areas, for example the job, the maternity an others. This paper became a classic of contemporary thought and serves as a theoretical basis for many feminist groups began to fight for women's demands. Simone de Beauvoir was an exemplary woman who made significant contributions to women’s liberation. There are still many things to do, she is still not completely free of "machismo" and prejudice of society, but following the example of people like Simone we can break down those barriers.
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My favorite website

In the social sciences, specifically in psychology, we can find many pages which publish research from different theoretical currents. A website is www.ScIELO.cl I quite like it because it has many articles, in other words, it is a virtual scientific library that contains a search bar by subject and alphabetically. Here you can find articles from important scientific to foreign electronic journals. ScIELO.cl is a project developed by CONICYT to publish scientific papers in Chile, but also exists in other countries. You can log in the page and have an account to access for material to study. I visit this site frequently, every time I work and when I research a topic that I like. This is a website that I like because it is easy to use and there are articles on almost all issues related to social sciences. When I need to do some works or search for a test I always find a publication or journals that could help me. Other advantage of this site is that it has very current papers on scientific research that have emerged recently. You could see it, is very interesting.
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The strange weather in Santiago ...

When a person is from the south like me, one of the first changes that you notice is the weather. It's hot when it should be cold and winter comes as a surprise, the fall was not noticed by anyone because the leaves don’t leave the trees. For example, today was a warm day and many people were wearing t-shirt while TV was telling us that tomorrow will be a rainy day. Nobody knows what is going to happen with our beloved weather. Time ago the weather was predictable and nice with the farmers, but every day becomes crazier than ever. The first time I watched the rain here in Santiago it was normal even with the hails, but all my classmates rose from their chairs and looked through the window. To me, it was normal. In the south of the country, you can watch the rain fall so much harder than that! Anyway, in that moment I realized that the climate of this city would be different from the one I had seen so far and I realized too that I would have to get used to it. not that hard to get used to the delusions of climate and its surprises, but what I really miss is the rain, the crazy and typical rain of the south.

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