My favorite subject

 

Hi! everyone, today I’m going to talk about my favorite subject of the semester.

In others blogs I said that I work giving vocational advice in a popular pre-university. And one of my teacher worked in this pre-university some years ago, so the last and this year she made a subject called “Workshop of psychoeducational interventions for the entrance of the popular sectors to the university”

At the beginning of the semester the teacher teached us important concepts to understand the context of teenagers specially in social medial, for example, “polemic”, “perezhivanie of Vygotskys”, and others.

Currenly she makes us take part in different organizations who work with teenagers who will give the PTU.

My group works in PREUPED (the preuniversitary at the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Chile) and now with the help of a teacher is more easy help to our students. We make talks about topics that may be useful to them such as “Fuas”, “stress management”, “anxiety” and others.

Every Thursday we meet to discuss what we did in the week in the organizations and what we could next week.

I like it too much, because I can help in a practical way and reduce the anxiety of some students.

My computer

Hi to every one!!

 

Today im going to talk about my favorite piece of technology. And that is my computer.

I use it everydays of the week, mainly for work and study; but sometimes I use it for waching films and play. I have it since december 2018. It was a gift from my parents for christmas. I like it because it’s mine and also because is so small, light and useful. Before of my computer I used a tablet that belongs to my dad.  So If i didn’t have it i would come back to use the Tablet or my cell phone to study. So It isn’t something essential to me but it is more comfortable.

Is useful because since I have it I fell that I can learn better, especially now in quarantine and online classes.

Why I chose Psychology?

 

Hello again!

In this post I’m going to talk about why I chose to study psychology.

I dont remember what I wanted to be as a kid, possibly a princess because I was a barbie fan. But from seven or eight years old my parents told me that I should be an engineer. And I didn't question it until I was in high school and my philosophy teacher inspired me to follow a humanistic career. 

At the end I studied commercial engineering for a year and I don't like the subjects. But I loved the circles, and my colleagues at FEN some of them are still my close friends. 

And finally I entered to study psychology because I liked people management and I wanted know why the persons do what they do, In addition, in my school I liked listen to my classmates when they had any problem. Currently I'm in 3rd year and I really like It! My experience in the university has been pretty good, I love the theory of the subjects. But the best experience are the practices. 

In my first year I participated in a volunteer service called TSR in a rural area of the country. There I had my first contact in the attention of people. And since the end of the second year and the beginning of this year I been working as a career adviser in a popular pre-university. I have learned a lot from these experiences, because thanks to these I knew that I really like working with childrens and teenagers. 

In the future I would love to work in schools or pre-universities. 

If you want any information about TSR you can talk me 💕

My autobiography

Hello! My name is Catalina Lobos, I am 21 years old, on November 3 I will turn 22 and I am currently in my third year of psychology. I live in Maipú with my family, my mother, my father, my younger sister and my two dogs, Happy and Phoebe. I don't consider myself to have a hobby. When I was 18 I liked to read and write, now I don't feel like doing it so I don't know if it's anhedonia or if my preferences changed. The closest thing to a hobby would be cooking. I mainly like to bake but I also like to make sauces to accompany noodles (my favorite food) and some main dishes.

I’ve studied in many schools, greenland school, santa maría de Maipú, Gabriela mistral and the Luis gandarillas institute which was where I finished my high school. Then I studied a year of commercial engineering at the University of Chile, but I did not like economics, finance or accounting.  I only liked marketing and people management because they involved psychology. So I decided that I should study what I wanted and I switched to psychology without notifying my parents.

I did not tell them because my parents are Christians and psychology is frowned upon in the churches, so they were not going to let me study this degree, so I only told them when they should enroll me. And to my surprise they weren’t angry with me, but sometimes I notice their disappointment.

Anyway, my favorite book is "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. My favorite color is light green. Currently I greatly admire Chiara Ferragni so I really wanted to learn Italian. Finally, I could say that my greatest near goal is to be able to live alone soon because the pandemic ruined those plans.

And I included a picture of Phoebe, because I love her so much and she is my baby.