Free Post: My pet

This is my first free post of the semester so I don’t really know what to say so I’m going to talk about my pet. My pet is a hedgehog that I adopted in March of this year; I adopted her because her previous owner wouldn’t care about her and left her alone for days so it was given to me by my family – my cousin rescued her and left her at my home-. Her name is Neptuna and according to the vet, she has one and a half or two years; When she arrived I didn’t have anything to care of her and I didn’t know anything about her too, so my mom helped me to buy everything and I found a special veterinary for hedgehogs. She is still afraid of people and she doesn’t like to get touched, so she gets really defensive when someone (that isn’t me) tries to grab her but she is cute. She is small and had a family of stuffed hedgehogs to keep her company, she likes to bite mint and eat dissected worms. At first she didn’t let me sleep because she was running in her wheel all the night but nowadays I’m used to all her noises and everything is easier. Neptuna is really important to me because she arrived when my cat, my favorite cat, died and I promised I’ll never had another pet because of that so she slowly made me change my mind. I attach pics so you can meet Neptuna.

Post Graduate Studies

So, in this post I’m going to talk about possible post graduate studies. Like I said in my latest post, I’m not sure what I’m going to do when I’m done studying psychology but something that I really like is art. And I would like to mix, somehow, what I’m studying with Art, gladly I think that could be possible because this University has a post graduate program in Faculty of Arts about Art Therapy. I have seen the program and is really cool, it only lasts two years and I think I qualify for admission because its requirements are: 1.- have studied something in arts, health care or education field, 2.- have two specific Psychology courses approved (which I have) and 3.- reading comprehension in English. I think that is my best option if I don’t want to throw away my Psychology title. And if I can’t do that, I would like to be an Art teacher, but I haven’t seen programs yet so I don’t know where I would like to study. I would be safer if I study something art related after studying Psychology because a lot of people consider “art” like a waste and not a real career, so probably I would be cool saying “yeah I’m studying something art related but hey this is my second career, I’m a psychologist too”. And of course I would like to try to travel around the world to specialize because I think Chile needs more “I love arts” culture so I’m not sure I’m going to have a lot of options here. I don’t really care if I have to study online or go to class but I would like to go to class because I’m sure I won’t be efficient with online class.

My future job

Like I said in my latest post, I’m a psychology student, so you will think that I’m going to be a psychologist in a few years, but actually I don’t know? I don’t have something like “when I finish Uni I would like to do this and that”. Actually I want to do a Masters Degree in art therapy because I love art, even my second option when I did PSU was being an art teacher and my third option was architect, so I always wanted to do something art related. I’m not sure If I will be a psychologist, like the stereotype of Psychologist at some point because I’m still not sure about what I want to do, sometimes I joke about finishing Uni but ending up with a tattoo parlor doing tattoos and my diploma hanging in the wall. If I end up working in the psychology field I would like to work with young people, like teens and kid because I know there are a lot of them who need help somehow and mental health in schools is not enough, I want to help those kids because I don’t like watching tv and seeing headlines like “kid commits suicide because bullying, nobody saw the signs”. I know I’m one person and I won’t make a big difference but If I can help one person in my entire life, I’ll be more than okay with that. I don't know how but I'll like to travel a lot in my future job, maybe go to forums or adquire experience in another places. I would like to put the "therapy" space outdoors too, but i don't know how because "therapy" requires a "intimate" space with people because they let out a lot of problems, pains, secrets. And lastly, I don't like to talk about money, I don't care about the salary a lot, if it's enough to live and give myself some gifts monthly, then it is okay. 

About my career

I'm going to write about my career. So, I'm in my 6th semester at Uni, or my 3rd year and I'm studying psychology. My career (at least in this University) has 5 areas where you can get your specialization: Juridic Psychology, Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social / Communitary Psychology and Industrial / Organizational Psychology. I'm still not sure about what I'm going to do in the next two years and the only thing I know is I like Clinic and Juridic Psychology. I used to love Educational Psychology (along with the areas I like right now) and I used to get the best grades in those subjects but last semester I had a really bad experience with a class in that field (It wasn't what I thought it would be) and I decided to focus on the others. Right now I'm doing courses in the lane of Clinic and Juridic psychology and I like it a lot, and somehow this semester is a lot more "chill" than other semesters, I do not know if it is because I like what I'm doing and I'm choosing which courses to take or this semester is' chill' really. In case you do not know, Clinic Psychology and Mental Health is the area where you can find the people who works at hospitals and organizations, is the stereotype of a "psychologist" and Juridic Psychology is the field which works along with Laws to make interventions in that area. Those two areas are the lanes that I want to follow, but I'm still not sure how. Anyways, back to my career, in this University, the professional formation is like a mix of everything, like you can find courses with biologic sciences or courses that are more reflexive like psychoanalysis, and the main idea of having a lot of questions that you can choose to learn to investigate, diagnose, intervene and evaluate in different ways and in different contexts and I think that's cool.

Best Movie (on my opinion)

To be honest, I don't watch too many movies (once, a friend made a to-do watch list and I'm still trying to finish that list, I'm 70% done with it by the way) because I can't focus in something for whole two hours and I get really nervous when I can foresee that something bad is going to happen. But to me, the best movie is Dunkirk. Dunkirk is a 2017 war film about the evacuation of Dunkirk in the World War II. Like I said, I'm not really into movies, less if they are about war but the effects in this movie, the storyline, the way the movie is constructed is really cool, like they have three main scenarios and the movie focus on the way that those three scenarios converge. I don't really want to give more details in the movie because I feel like everything in this movie is important so if I start to to tell my favorite scenes or more details in the storyline i'm going to post spoilers and i don't like to do that. BUT something important about this movie is that the director is Christopher Nolan - I know he is important because my friend who gave me the to do watch list gave me like a whole page of his movies and said that his movies always were like above 90% in Rotten Tomatoes- and the whole cast is important too, i heard that a lot of the actors in Dunkirk were in other movies of Nolan. Also, this movie is important because is about survival and not blood, and the way they portrayed that is really cool because even veterans of the Dunkirk evacuation made a lot of good commentaries about this movie.

Disclaimer: I don't think this is my favorite movie, but I think it's the best movie I ever seen. I watched it like 8 times and everytime I saw it I discovered something new in the movie.