Self evaluation of my academic year (2009)
Well, is the end of the academic year! It was so fast… really, measures not already the year is over. I think that this year was very odd for me. I think that there is still time... BUT not really!
Last year, at the end of the year, at this time I felt I had spent much more time, and I felt that had spent much more things and that I had done things… now...
Is has the year had less time. But is impossible, because the al the year have the same amount of time, of month and days... Then, what happened?
Well, really, I think know what happened. Last year was a time in that I made a lot of things, and where I was much more excited and whit more energy… unlike today. Today I feel less excited and I feel less energy, so, I am discouraged, tired… slower. It’s very curious and funny at the same time, how when a person is discouraged and slow, thinks everything is at your own pace… until one day you realize that really this is not so, because all the world and all people… all go to the normal rhythm, fast, and the only person who is outside… it is you.
It is what I feel today, and in this sense, being consistent, I can’t say that this was a good year. I do not think it was a bad period, but I think that it can be better. I think that my life during this time was very flat, too flat in all aspects, in absolutely every way.
One year is long time, in which a person can do lot of things, and can change a lot. I did neither the one nor the other.
Academically, It year was awful, because I have been very distracted, dispersed, and I have not put adequate attention to the university issues. I lower my performance, but the worse is that I feel that I miss a lot of instances to learning, and deepen knowledge that interest me.
In other ways, I feel that I miss the chance to do things I enjoy, like spots or dance, or simply relax, or be with people I love.
Well, for all this reasons, this self evaluation of my academic year, but not only of my academic year, my year in all the aspects, is negative. All I can say is that the next year thinks will be better.
martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009
miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009
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Challenges of Anthropology
Well, I think that anthropology is currently facing many challenges, in almost all areas of their day. In this university, anthropology has many shortcomings in Technology, because there is a little technology implementation, but these issues are really important in the areas like archeology and physical anthropology, where the technology can be very helpful in the discovery and greatly facilitates the work. In Social Anthropology, is important to have more advanced computer programs to process and analyze information, qualitative data. In therms of diffusion and implementation of more advanced computational technologies our university is long overdue, and the students are poorly prepared to use it.
About the Social Matters, I think that is maybe one of the biggest challenges, because the main objective of the anthropologists is to interfere in social matters, that is to say be able to generate knowledge useful to society, and I think that today, this aspect in the Chilean anthropology is very puny, because the government does not consider the importance of the social scientist. I think that is very important that there a direct relationship between the social reality and the work of the anthropologist and generally with the anthropological endeavor.
In the education aspect, I think that is important that the discipline can be more open and accessible to all people. I think that is important to generate more diffusion about the topics of the social sciences, and specifically about the anthropology, especially in reference to the contributions that anthropology can make. In this sense, would be interesting massify the anthropological knowledge. In other hand, I think that the anthropological training should be more strongly related to the practice field. This should be a constant feedback. About the career of anthropology, I think that the students should be more involved with all the universities where is the career and with the neighboring countries. It´s important to have a more thorough knowledge about the other types of anthropology, the development of the anthropology in other places, in other ways, and thus to achieve a much more critical view.
Well, I think that anthropology is currently facing many challenges, in almost all areas of their day. In this university, anthropology has many shortcomings in Technology, because there is a little technology implementation, but these issues are really important in the areas like archeology and physical anthropology, where the technology can be very helpful in the discovery and greatly facilitates the work. In Social Anthropology, is important to have more advanced computer programs to process and analyze information, qualitative data. In therms of diffusion and implementation of more advanced computational technologies our university is long overdue, and the students are poorly prepared to use it.
About the Social Matters, I think that is maybe one of the biggest challenges, because the main objective of the anthropologists is to interfere in social matters, that is to say be able to generate knowledge useful to society, and I think that today, this aspect in the Chilean anthropology is very puny, because the government does not consider the importance of the social scientist. I think that is very important that there a direct relationship between the social reality and the work of the anthropologist and generally with the anthropological endeavor.
In the education aspect, I think that is important that the discipline can be more open and accessible to all people. I think that is important to generate more diffusion about the topics of the social sciences, and specifically about the anthropology, especially in reference to the contributions that anthropology can make. In this sense, would be interesting massify the anthropological knowledge. In other hand, I think that the anthropological training should be more strongly related to the practice field. This should be a constant feedback. About the career of anthropology, I think that the students should be more involved with all the universities where is the career and with the neighboring countries. It´s important to have a more thorough knowledge about the other types of anthropology, the development of the anthropology in other places, in other ways, and thus to achieve a much more critical view.
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