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CHANGES TO MY STUDY PROGRAMME

  In 2019 I entered the university for the first time to study journalism. The duration of the career is 5 years, a total of 10 semesters. The curriculum consists of a total of 60 courses throughout the career. That year was unstable, the first semester there was a school strike for a few weeks, and the second semester the country experienced strong social changes that forced the closing of the semester earlier than normal. The changes I would implement in my career are based on my short experience in on-site classes and in the student assemblies that were made at the institute. Regarding the journalism curriculum, I would implement the courses that involve the use of journalistic tools in the first year, such as radio, photography, and reporting. This is to experiment and get to know these tools before the theory. In addition, the curriculum concentrates a high load for third, fourth, and fifth-year students, therefore, the program should be reorganized. On the other hand, the...

Time travel to the future

  Climate change has hit Chile hard, this year we were surprised with high temperatures in the middle of winter that made July the warmest month in the historical record. The year 2021 has been extremely dry especially for the central-southern part of the country, which has a water deficit of between 40 and 50%. Specialists indicate that what we are currently experiencing is a prolonged lack of water, better known as "mega drought". This situation will continue to worsen in the future if the necessary measures are not taken to deal with it. If I could travel back in time to the future, I would like to witness how the drought was dealt with in the country. I would like to travel to the year 2080, to the south of Chile, specifically to the Magallanes region. This area will be highly populated because the vast majority of the population will migrate south due to the water shortage in the rest of the country and the world. One of my dreams is to have a house in the south of t...