jueves, 29 de mayo de 2014

Career-related website that I like

I like Google Scholar, if you have ever been in a situation when you have to do a serious paper and you need reliable webpages, Google Scholar is your thing!, forget about the not so reliable Wikipedia, Google Scholar will show you only reliable sources, it will show how many people and works have cited the source, Google Scholar will also show you the most cited pages, and you can search webpages in Spanish too. You can also search publications by years, or by relevance, you can also search a specific topic too, if you choose law it will only show you law related things. I use this website every time I have to do a paper, and it´s awesome, before I knew this website I had to do long searches in Google or I had to go to the library (and if you are a lazy person you do not want go to the library), so when I learned about Google scholar, my source search was dramatically reduce. So here is the link to this awesome website http://scholar.google.com/    

miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2014

My favorite song


Is kind of hard to decide which song is your favorite one, since I have a lot of favorite ones, I will chose the one that is more related to this class, the song that I choose was Numb from Linking park, this song was released in the second album, Meteora of Linking park and it was released in 2003 (more than ten years ago) and it has sell around 20 million copies.

This was the first real song (that I remember) that I heard in English; the ones that you hear in school do not count, I did not understand what the song was saying but I liked the rhythm, and years later when I could finally understood it (yes, I was too lazy and I never looked the translation in Google), the song reminded me of mi previous self (the time when you are young and try to find yourself), every now and then I listen to the song and I feel a bit of nostalgia, so you should listen to it.   

lunes, 28 de abril de 2014

Religion

Hi, today I should talk about Christianity, first of all, even if I did all the sacraments I am not a Cristian myself, but I have to agree that the influence of Christianity in society is huge, now the influence is not as big as it was before where the countries where ruled by religion, but the church still has a lot of influence left, one of the reasons is that at least in Chile more than half of the people say that they are believers. But lately we are seeing and incredible phenomenon the church is losing it influence. Before saying that something was right because the church said so was a valid argument but now it has almost not weight in public discussion. It would be very interesting to analyze why the Cristian religion has lost it influence         

jueves, 17 de abril de 2014

laptop

First I have to set this straight, I really love technology and between all those marvelous devises my favorite is the laptop. But like all things, this one has a story, If you have been keeping up with my other post you should know that I was in the US for the last 2-3 years, and before I went there I had the bulky and heavy desktop computer, but when I went to the US one of the first thing I bought was a laptop, suddenly the me that did not know anything about English could communicate with my friends in Chile, I could use it to do homework, translate words, and play games.

To be honest not everything about a laptop is perfect; first they are very expensive when you compare it to a desktop computer and they are less powerful, and the main hindrance is that you cannot have a gaming laptop without spending a 1000$ dollars, but the advantages is that you can carry it everywhere and if your electricity is out, and you can have 5 hours of battery life while you wait for the electricity to return, to be truthfully I use my laptop every day but not only for playing I use it for studding too.    

jueves, 10 de abril de 2014

Courses

This term I am taking lots of courses, seven of them actually, but four of them are subjects that everybody that is studying their first year in law in the University de Chile is currently taking, these courses are microeconomic, introduction to law, moral philosophy (I actually had a very hard test today in the morning at 8:00), and history of law. The ones that I choose are nothing especial one of them Institutions of Roman law was recommended by a third year student, the second one is accounting, I picked this course because I want to be a tributary attorney, and the third one English, the reason for taking this course is because I do not want to lose my skills in this language. 

Currently I do not have any extracurricular activities but I do have expectations one of them is to pass all my courses and the other one is to have good grades.        

jueves, 3 de abril de 2014

My Auto Biography

I was born in Santiago de Chile 16 of September of 1994; I Studied my first two years of high school in the Luis Campino School, I lived in Santiago almost all my life until three years ago my mother won a Chilean scholarship to study abroad, so shortly after we departed to state of North Carolina in the United States, there I studied my last 2 years of high school in a school called East Chapel Hill High, after graduation I came back to Chile and I applied to an special admission program for people that studied their high school years abroad, so here I am in the university of Chile studying law.