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English 4, Post 8 , 'English Language challenges'

 I have only had two English courses at university and I really enjoyed both of them, I loved the use of blogs, for me it was a lot of fun to write about some topics. I have always found it easier to write in English than to speak it, I can understand what people say to me, but I struggle to know what to say and how to respond, but they always say practice makes perfect, so I just need to practice the speaking part more to get better. My cousins were born in New Zealand, so they speak almost no Spanish, in order to talk to them I have to do it in English, I talk to them a couple of times a week and almost always by video call since they are little and don't have a cell phone yet, I still struggle to understand some words because they have English accents and I learned English with an American accent throughout my schooling. When I was in school I spoke more in English because besides having English classes I also had Chinese classes, all my Chinese teachers were from China so they

English 4, Post 7, 'Changes to my study programme'

 It has always been said that Chile has longer university careers compared to other countries, and that is due to the "common plan", in my opinion the common plan is a waste of time, you pass the same subject that was seen in the last years of school, I would like the common plan to be eliminated to move directly to the most interesting branches. Our faculty is quite old and that can be seen in the laboratories, the infrastructure is old and looks worn out, and although this does not affect the way of learning or the development of practical activities, visually it does not look good, the university is one of the most prestigious in the country, and I would really like to renew the laboratories of the faculty. The faculty makes good use of technology and especially in this pandemic, that is something that I really liked, in the laboratories there are very modern and crazy machines like in a movie. The way of teaching of most of the professors is very clear and precise, if you

English 4, Post 6, 'Time Travel to the future'

 In this blog I have to write about something I don't like very much, traveling to the future, would I like to travel to the future? No, the future scares me, it scares me to know that climate change ended life, that maybe in the future people will be suffering from lack of water and pollution. But this blog is about traveling to the future so I will have to write something, even if I don't like it. I would like to travel 30 years ahead, to see if mankind did something against global warming, to see if the animals that are now in danger of extinction still exist. But I should be careful because movies have taught that you can't meet yourself when you travel back in time because that would be fatal. I would also like to know if my family and friends are okay, to know if something bad happened to them so that when I go back in time I can try to fix it. I would also like to know how I am doing, if I accomplished my goals, if I finished college. What I would hate about travelin

English 4, Post 5, 'My future job'

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 In the future I would love to work in the research and development of vaccines or medicines, this work is never done outdoors because the research is done in a laboratory, so if you work in the area of research and development of medicines you will almost never see the sunlight, I like that because I hate the sun and the heat.  Although there are some branches of pharmaceutical companies in Chile, most probably if you want to get a job in this area you have to travel abroad, most are in USA and Europe, also if you want to be a researcher in any scientific area you will have to go abroad because here there are no such laboratories and Chile does not invest in science, so in short if you want to be a scientist you have to go abroad. Living abroad is an experience I want in my life. The truth is that I have no idea what the salary is for research and development of medicines or vaccines, but the approximate salary for a biochemist in Chile would be one million Chilean pesos, I guess that

English 4, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post'

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Only murders in the building, is a new series from star+, I watched the whole thing in two days, here's a little review. The first seconds of this series are very striking. Some cops enter a building while 2 of the 3 main characters are coming down the stairs screaming, they go looking for the other main character, Selena Gomez (she is the reason I watched the series), and they find Selena on her knees with a bloody body and she tells them: It's not what you think. This series is a satire towards the criminal shows that were very fashionable. In this series the 3 characters are fans of a crime podcast, this podcast is what unites the characters as they are very different people. One is an unemployed 70 year old actor, another is an unemployed Broadway director and Selena is a young design student. The plot begins 2 months before the opening scene, the three neighbors never speak to each other until an incident occurs in the building where they live that leads them to realize th

English 4, post 3- Carrer Related

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 During the biochemistry course we study molecular genetics. Thanks to molecular genetics we can perform analysis of the DNA components and we know the order of the nucleotide sequence, which would be the instructions to form a human being. The human being is made up of a large number of cells, and each of these cells has the same information according to the functions it performs. Therefore, each of these cells reads its information and acts. Knowing the composition of DNA is very useful in various issues present in our daily life. Thanks to the knowledge of the genetic material that is transferred from parents to children with small modifications during the different stages of generations, we can know the relationship between them, between species and thus know how we are evolving. In medicine, advances in genetics have provided knowledge that today allows us to better understand many hereditary diseases, as well as to identify bacteria that have a negative impact on the correct deve

English 4, post 2 ´The best concert'

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 My first concert was the green day concert in 2017 at the bicentennial stadium in La Florida, at that time green day was my favorite band, it is a rock group from california with 4 members. As I am from Chillán I had to travel on Friday to Santiago, to be able to go to the concert on Saturday, then I had to return on Sunday because I had an important presentation at school; my friends asked me to please not to scream so much at the concert to avoid having problems in my throat when I had the presentation at school, but I did not pay much attention to them. That day was one of the best days of my life and although it was very hot the energy of the concert was incredible, there were many people and at one point the vocalist began to throw t-shirts to the public while the other members with a fire hose threw water.  On Sunday when I was going back to Chillán I was very tired and during the trip I saw many people who had also gone to the concert because they were wearing the band's t-