Changes to my study programme

Hi guys, this will be my last blog 😊, I want to tell you about my career and what things I would change about it.

Although I have only been studying my career for 3 years, I have noticed many things that I would like to change.

For example, the academic curriculum is sometimes very inflexible in the case of failing some subjects which are not important for higher level subjects, so, if you fail a subject, you can often fall behind even up to a year in getting out of the career.

I also feel that the academic load is poorly distributed, since some semesters can become even "relaxed", but the next one it may be very difficult to keep all the subjects with a good performance (as in the case now ☹).

Regarding the faculty facilities, the truth is that, throughout these three years, many improvements have been made to the infrastructure, even a new building was inaugurated (I have not had the opportunity to know it because of the pandemic), which I consider wonderful, however, I would like the laboratories used in the first two years of career to improve a little, since their facilities may be a little old even.

Although my career can be considered traditional for the years that it has been taught in this country, the use of technologies has always gone hand in hand with the development of the career, that is why I feel that in this aspect, chemistry and pharmacy makes good use of technologies.

Time travel to the future

 

Particularly, I have never thought about this situation, I am not a person who thinks much about the future beyond the goals I set for myself.

However, I think that if I had to travel to the future, I would travel to the year 2100 in Chile, basically because I would like to see how much things have changed in 78 years, I would like to visit the place where I live, where I studied in high school, and where I study now. I would also like to know what is the political direction that this country has taken after the Constituent process it is going through.

On the other hand, I would like to know how much science has advanced in all these years, if it was possible to create a perfect artificial intelligence, with self-awareness and if there are new medical methods that allow to increase the quality of life of people. I would also like to know whether the problem of climate change has been solved (if I am honest, I think that even in that year, it will not have been completely solved).

Another thing that I find interesting to see in the future, is how the trends in fashion and music will be in the population, if I had to guess, I think that Asian culture will permeate a lot in the Western world (in fact it is already doing so).

My Future Job

 

The job I would like to have in the future is that of technical director of a pharmaceutical laboratory.

I imagine it to be quite a difficult job, as it takes a lot of skills to run a laboratory where drugs are made and analyzed.

I wouldn't mind working in an office, after all, I would be the lab manager, however, I would also like to participate in the production processes that take place within the lab.

I like to travel, see new places, and I hope that with this job I will be able to do that, as I will probably have to do a lot of business travel.

I am thinking of taking elective courses in pharmaceutical technology and clinical pharmacy, as both seem very interesting to me. Clinical pharmacy directly relates pharmaceutical sciences to the work of medicine in the population, so I feel that I could contribute a lot to the medical community.

And on the other hand, pharmaceutical technology is extremely interesting to me, since it makes use of many branches of science, such as physical chemistry, solid chemistry, pharmacochemistry and physiology, so I feel that I would learn many things that would be useful to me as a technical director of a laboratory.