Blog Session N°9: Changes to my Study programme

As you know I'm studying chemistry and pharmacy in the Universidad de Chile, but I'm finishing my second semester so I don't have many experiences about some classes that could be necessary or not for my professional development, but one thing that I can be sure of is we have more classes than other universities for example in Universidad Catolica, the same career have a different study program, just in the second semester they have three classes and we have six classes, there is a difference, I don't know exactly if all the classes we have are strictly necessary, but in my opinion, some classes could be out of the study program, for example, the class of electromagnetism is not necessary, apparently this class is necessary for cellular physiology, but many people said that they don't see many things of electromagnetism, maybe just tow topics of it and that's it, so personally, maybe it could be out of the program. 

We can be all agree that any career is not easy, and especially if that career is in some renowned university because then things get even harder, and something that some people thinks, no if you have more evaluations you are going to be a better professional, it doesn't work like that. Yes, maybe for people is good, but for the majority is not, I've seen some friends how started very excited for study this major but thanks to the excessive workload they think that they are not good for this or even leave the major, but not because they don't like it, is because they can with the workload, some times they have to stayed all night long study and the when they have the results, is a bad mark and is not because they are not intelligence for it, is because while they have one test already need to think in the next, and that is stressful for everyone, I'm not saying that it should be easy, but a little of empathy from the teachers it would not be bad, I mean they need to think that while we are in one class we have three or even more classes behind, so at the end we don't have just one test for the week, I mean yes we have one test, but is just for ONE class, so at the end we have three or even more evaluations in just one week, and maybe not everyone knows this, but yes, we need to sleep as well. And yes we are students, and we want to be the best professionals that we could be, but we don't want to have a nervous collapse thanks to that.