CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

I think it's a usual comment the fact that we have studied architecture the same way for an entire century, so it's obvious that our learning it's obsolete. Also, it's known that the first time you do an actual job, like to practice or after you graduate, you feel like you have no idea on what you are doing. So I would say that the first thing we can point out in our career is the learning method.
As for curriculum I don't have that much knowledge on what we should know yet, personally I highly doubt I'll be able to be a calculation engineer, so sometimes while I'm studying that I feel like I'm losing my time, but I also understand that it is an important part of my formation.
For teachers, I, personally, don't have any complain, but I know that a lot of my classmates are mistreated here, for some reason, all the teachers here want you to be superhuman because "that's what it takes to be in this university", I think it is a stupid idea, those teachers seem to be brainwashed with the idea that they are better professionals just because they graduated from here and that makes no sense.
As for faculty facilities, we are totally lacking, even if it is an architecture faculty, there isn't universal accesibilities, we are lacking space when it comes to classrooms, we don't have enough bathrooms (says the normative), we don't have an adecuate space to have lunch, and recently the ceiling is falling and it's getting really dangerous.
To finish I would like to say that some spaces like the free computer lab, mapoteca, library and other should be permanently open, since we have other classes, apart from workshop and we can't really control the times we have to work outside the classroom.

Personal Opinions

What is your opinion about the US, Chilean, Argentine, and Brazilian far right governments and how they will impact our neighboring countries?

It has been proved that after a complex period of protest, no matter how much benefit it gave to society and no matter how big it was, people vote for conservatives again, due to an unbased wish to stop social changes, even if they don't completely disagree with the new ideas. Given that, all countries that experience this situation, enter in a setback process from all that has been achieved with social articulation and force. Also, because of nowadays globalization, the arrive of these far right governments ends up affecting the rest on the world. My opinion here is really clear, people is so used to be pasive that they don't want to accept a change in their lives and the responsability that comes with it, I think that the lack of participation and the traditionally far right votes, comes from people that reject to be aware of their responsability in today's society.


What is your opinion about the military? 

The military is one of the multiple traditional institutions that are still up in the country. They create a illusion of motherland, tradition, hierarchy and unecessary power of Chile as a nation (unfairly the only nation in our country), given that, population, even today, still has deliriums of unuseful wars and rivalties with our neighbors. My opinion on an institution that had the guts to kill their own people and stole big amounts of money from the state, it's that they need to lose the power they have in society today. A war would never be an option, it's never a solution. As a country, we need to stop investing money on training young people to go to a unexistent future war. Apart from that, military has another administrative jobs, I don't have a problem with it, as long as they have the same conditions of any other worker (f.e same years of service, as the rest of people, before retiring). Wich makes me more sad about this is that a lot of young people enter the military after graduting high school, because they don't have the money to keep studying, so  they end inside a violent institution without having a real choice.


What is your opinion about “barras bravas” (hooligans)? 

I'm a hardcore fan of football (or soccer, I hate to call it like that), since I was young, my family has always been involved with it, specially leading amateur football clubs, so I have seen, firsthand, how destructive and violent hooligans can be. In my opinion, this is highly a culture matter, but it clearly isn't just a will issue. Hooligans come from vulnerable contexts, they learn since young that one of the few things that they have the right to be passionated about is football, that, plus the fact that they grow up in the middle of violence and drugs abuse, leads to them being barras bravas. If as society we could recognize that, we could go way more far with a solution. Personally, I was a fan of Chelsea F.C even before that being a fan of the national team. In England is were Hooligans started appearing, and after a lot of work and projects, you can see that the stadiums there doesn't even have barriers between the public and the football field anymore. Shouldn't government research for an actually effective method?  

What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in all cases? 

My opinion on this is pretty short, because I start recognizing that women has been historically deprived of their sexual rights. Women can never decide, women always have to be take the responsability for their sexual life, even if ,clearly, there was someone else there, and most important, according to society, no matter if they didn't have access to sexual education or support, they must ALWAYS take the responsability of parenting. These ideas don't have a base nowadays, only the sexist and retrograde ideas. At the end, we just have to keep fighting or wait to old people to die (sorry not sorry) so we can walk forward on society.