what we need

If I’m honest, the curriculum of Pharmacy in this university is really well structured, i took a look to the old curriculum and the new one to compare them, for example some of the signatures like anatomy were deleted and replaced with more physiology, pretty accurate in that case -we're not doctors-, we work with the physiological effects of medicaments in organisms. Although, I think we are a health career, we took the responsibility of health people, we treat with people in some jobs, so, why not implement a signature like Etic? All others health careers have it, actually we're one of the few universities that doesn't treat that side of the profession, and actually there was some pharmaceutics of this university that some years ago they were involved in some non-ethical activities, ah, what are they waiting?

This is a faculty very small in comparison to the others, we NEED more classrooms, and sometimes the schedules are just terrible because we don't have enough space to do more classes. Our library could have a little more space, sometimes if you don't run, you can't even reach a chair, and it's one of the most quiet places to study. And no, I’m not forgetting the lack of laboratory material, sometimes we have to work with a partner just because it's not enough for each one -I don't have problems with share or with teamwork- but the point is the lack of material :(

And of course we could improve all the material necessities with money -a lot of money- but, the most important thing it's the methods of teachers, the quality of them, and I have to say that most of them are GREAT -personal opinion duh-, I notice them trying to make us understand and they're always available to solve our questions -you can see that they love what they do, and I’m happy for that-, although not everybody thinks the same, and I believe that each one of us -the students- have to find the teacher that works best with them. After all everybody learns in a different way.

I want vacations noooow!

I can't wait for the summer, this has been a really hard year, i just want to take some leisure time, finally sleep more than 5 hours at night, visit to my dear friends because right now i have no time to do anything -university is really stressfull- but certainly i want to leave Santiago for a while.

My friends and I have been planned to go to the beach this time, summer vacations laying in the sand taking the sun with a wine-cantaloupe in a hand and then swim like if nothing else exist. But i don't know, i'm not agree a hundred percent with them because i really miss camping, i remembered some  vacations when i was a kid in "Parque Inglés", it was really fun, i love the nature -there you are surrounded among the trees and the silence is so peacefull- and of course there you are far away from technology, i have the feeling that i want to be dissconected from the world.

Recently i talked with a girl in English class, she told me about her vacations in Bolivia and Peru, she said that she take this trip with her cousins, and it was cheaper than i thought, actually i've never travel to anywhere from Chile, and maybe this vacations could be the first time, but first i have to work all January to get some money so i could go wherever i want to go... climb the Machu Pichu for example or the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia.

Vacations HURRY UP, pleaseee!

The addictive world of nowadays

When i was a kid i was really exposed to drugs substances, my family still have some vicious, my mom for example, she used to -and still- smokes a lot of cigarettes, so my aunts and my grandfather, in a kind of way i think that it's more common to be a smoker if your family it is as well, and i'm not a exception. I wake up with a cigarette in my mouth, i smoke other waiting for the bus, other walking to the subway, the next one when i'm walking for the university and well, it's a sick compulsive adicction that reduce my anxiety, before any test i NEED a cigarette, especially because i'm really nervous person.

I usually drink some beers with my friends or my family, i like the vodka and red wine, but it's not an adicction, i don't like what it feels to be drunk to be truth -and throw up, iug-, i remembered my mother getting drunk a lot and she was really really really annoying, so i have some repulsion for that.

Sometimes I smoke pot, this drug it's a plant after all, my first joint i smoked with my mother and cousin, at first it was a bad-trip, i feel so paranoic and anxious, but after that -when i left the control- it feels really pacefull and weird, and it's pretty usefull when i want to get creative, for example to play the saxophone or after reading a good book. But i'm responsable, some people blame to the drugs for their failures, and everything in abuse is bad, it's all about the balance and self-respect.

My cousin lately has been some trouble with the drugs-abuse of cocaine, his parents used to be drugs-addicts and i have to admit that his life has been really complicated, but it's not an excuse... he have no goals, no motivation and when you talk with him, it's like talk with a 12years old boy, pretty inmature. Although i feel sorry for him, he almost died for a overdose and i advice him everytime i see him, after all he is the only man i ever loved.

My grandmother doesn't have that kind of viscous but she consume medicaments that are drugs after all, she has a lot of health-problems and actually, she use a topical substance of marihuana to calm the pain -she said it was better than anything she has been tried- so drugs have that brightside.

I know people who lost in drugs, they use them like an escape from reality, from the real world, it's sad, you know. But if you are responsable with your body and your mind, you can use for reacreational activities, well, there are a lot of controversity on it, it's such an interesting and debatable topic, but the most important thing is to be informed and be responsable, if you can't be succesfull because of drugs, maybe you are the problem, not them.

Post graduate studies

The study is a long long way, it feels everlasting sometimes: your parents sent you to the the kids-garden, then to elementary school, after that the high school, in my case i take a pre-univeristy study, then if you want to be a professional you go to the univeristy, and all of that to finally start to work, woo-hoo, trying to find some money then you die.

Well, you could take post-graduate studies if you want, in my case i think i want to get a PhD in pharmacy maybe in USA, England or right here in my actual university, so i could get better in the investigation field, it's exhausting to think in finish other career, but i really like Enthomology, and i think i could mix this two passions to get a great result, the study the chemistry of insects, arachnids and other species related to bugs, in Latinoamerica you can find a lot of them, and some endemic species all over the world, so i could get an association with parnerts in the same field, or maybe work with a investigation institution, sound pretty exciting to me, and it's because when i search for bugs i feel like a 10 years old kid.

Althoug, i'm not so sure, it's hard to me think right now what i want to do in the future, and it's a little bit complicated to me to take desitions, i question a lot to myself, but anyways, i just want to do some that worth it, even if it doesn't mean money, fame or the great success, i just want to do what make me happy, i think that make me that question is the correct in first place.

A job, the research for a cure

Did you know that the blue scorpion venom has properties that can fight against cancer? This is one of the millions of chemical substances that we can extract from animals to help people using them in the treatment of a lot of different diseases.

I always feel quite interested in animals, especially in all kinds of insects, arachnids, and arthropods so I would like to investigate about the thousands of unknown substances at the present that we can get from them and see the characteristics of the active principles involved to study their effects in response to different diseases.

To expand my opportunities in the investigation I would like to get a PhD in Pharmacy in this same university or in another country like USA or England and then study Entomology to be pretty qualified in the field. This job, by the way, forces me to travel to a lot of different countries to study endemic species from all the continents, so in part, I could work outside traveling and taking samples of this animal substances and then in laboratories analyze them, i don't know but sounds pretty interesting and exciting to me.

I always feel that work with animals has a deep ethical discussion, but assuming that my work is centered on a special kind of animals like insects... maybe it's not a big problem. That's because there are 10'000 millions of bugs by square kilometer, imagine that they are a plague! lucky me haha.

And to be truth, if I could work in something so cool for me, I don't know if the payment would be a problem because I don't mind about it, actually, the research for the cure of a disease is a really huge work so maybe I could work for a scientific institution collaborating with them, I'm not so sure... but certainly I'm not made to be a businessman but a scientist;)

Hobbies: Bugs, sax and carnivorous plants

Tell me to what you pay attention and i will tell you who you are.

-José Ortega y Gasset.

For some people are totally disgusting, but when i was a kid I used to play a lot with all kind of insects like woodlice, dragon-flies, caterpillars and my favourite ones: the ants. I spent the whole day just watching them, learning how they worked in a "society", i always admire their altruism, helping each other when they were injured, amazing creatures are the ants.

Well, i started listening to Jazz when i was like 10 or 11 years old, i had this neighbour who had a band, and he used to play the bass, one of my favourites instruments together with saxophone and piano. When i heard the music, he put on the radio: i was listening Coltrane for the first time, and i just travelled to a peaceful place, it left me speechless, and it was indescribable. So, then, when i was 15, my family bought me an alto saxophone, it was hard to learn, but it truly worth it.

If you want to play the sax, you must learn how to control your breathing with your mouth in a correct position with the tongue bellow the entrance and play the keys at the same time with your two hands, it was totally different from flute, but it really helps to know how to play it, after all they are wind instruments.

And recently i start to gardening, a friend gave me some carnivorous plant seeds and i planned to have a lot of them, then buy an artificial anthill to have an ant civilization and make them live with the plants, so they can establish a symbiotic relationship, pretty cool to me! i will feel like the kid i was once... just admiring their altruism.

The fascinating human brain

"Cogito ergo sum: i think, therefore i exist"-Descartes.

 
It's philosophical, but this is what makes our brain different than the other species, we know that we're existing, most of them, can't even recognize themselves in front of a mirror. It's the most complex organ in our body, the result of thousands of years of evolution and is all what you are as a person, everything that you feel through you senses, it's you: your human brain. The brain is the central organ of the nervous system, receptor, processor and response generator of all the information that we perceive. The human brain is divided in two hemispheres communicated through the corpus callosum, the left one is related to reasoning, communication and mathematical and scientific abilities, while the right one is related to creativity, imagination and artistic and music sense, and each hemisphere has the control of the hand in the other side, so when you write with you left hand you are using your right hemisphere.

Each hemisphere is divided in four lobes: in the frontal we can find the Broca's area, is where all the words you say come from, also, in this area is where your personality is contained. The parietal lobe is where all your moves come from, yes, the motor-response area. The temporal lobe is where is located your sense of audition and balance. Finally, in the occipital lobe is where your brain capture images from your eyes to process them so you can see them. It's amazing the things that an organ of 1300g can do, with millions of nerves cells doing the synapsis constantly, but, I’ve always think about the dark part of it: psychiatric diseases, the power of our brain over us is infinite, schizophrenia, depression, psychosis or psychopathy... it makes me wonder how do you know you're mad? Maybe it's nothing real, maybe it's your brain making all the work for you, I don't know, and just in case I don't want to know.

The Best Holiday

It was on 2015, me and a group of four friends went to La Serena in summer vacations, it was the first time that we go out all together in a trip for a whole week. We stayed in the house of one of my friend's aunt, I remembered it was a really comfortable place, with two big bedrooms to rest with a giant TV where we played some videogames in Jorge's PlayStation some nights after hanging out for the whole day.

We planned this trip for months, so we had a lot of money to spend on everything we wanted, we went out to the beach in Coquimbo, I remembered me, Felipe and Jorge swimming in the sea joking around about how Allison and Marissel just wet their feet (cowards!), then we usually played Cariocas lying in the sand, gambling with "dares" for the losers, very creative and prankish dares. And after the swim the hungry was intense: the best "Pastel de Choclo" I ever taste was in a restaurant there in La Serena, actually, we ate a lot, especially in the afternoons, well, I have a superpower, you know, I can eat everything and don't get fat... lucky me, sadly not them:(

We spent a lot of time walking around and taking photographs on the lighthouse  (i have one of Jorge kissing a starfish, iug) and sitting in the sand just to drink a couple of beers talking about everything with a beautiful view of the sunset in front of us, I think that kind of moments are priceless and unforgettable.

But the most fun parts were the nights, hanging around all together, walking by the sea or sitting around a campfire, having fun, laughing and relaxing, it feels like another world, far away from the stressful Santiago... the last day, while we're getting back to our home i remembered me watching the photos that we take, thinking about the great vacations of that summer, hoping to get back there someday to eat another yummy Pastel de Choclo.

A Country You Would Like to Visit

"Il dolce far niente" or "the sweetness of doing nothing" is a sentence very used in the boot shaped country, and is definitely one of my favourites... here in Chile everybody is so hurry and everything is for yesterday, so people have a lot of stress, while in Italy people knows how to take a break, and rest, and sleep, and doing absolutely nothing... and that sound pretty good for me.

Italy is located in the old continent, and have the most beautiful scenes of the world, specially the South, in cities like Sicily, where i heard people is very kind, although, if i had the money, i would visit The Floating City: Venice, a place without traffic (yesss!) and with a system of channels to peacefully  navigate around the city.

Italy is also known by the art, is one of the most artistic countries, famous paintings of the Renaissance to admire, a unique and amazing architecture that includes the Coliseum in Rome or the beautiful Milan Cathedral, and of course that i can't forget the music, Opera is a beautiful music genre that i usually enjoy and that can be easily find it in here.

Italians use a lot of body language and it's fun to know that some movements or hand gestures can be easily understand by everybody in there and the Italian is beautiful language, actually i know a few words... but certainly if i stay in there for living a couple of years i have to learn how to speak it properly... anyway, i think i'll have the time to visit it, i can't wait to eat a Spaghetti dish al dente or a giant Pizza, meanwhile, sadly i have to study so i'm going to leave the "Il doce far niente" for the future.

My Blogging Experience

I remembered the first time we had to do a blog in English III, i was not too enthusiastic, especially because of the "mental block", i don't know, it's so stressful, sometimes it's hard to me have to write about something just because i have to do it. I really hate that.

However, i realized that when i started to write a blog (after the mental-block thing), the ideas only appear, and it's fun, every time we have to write about something (the most of times) it's about an interesting topic, so after a while i don't even care about the wordcount... and although it sounds a bit silly, i got to know myself better, it's weird, because some ideas just pop up, and after writing, i assimilated them.

There's no doubt that i learned a lot of new words, so my vocabulary increased considerably. And of course, now i feel more prepared to write anything in English. Also, it's a way to get out of the chemistry, physics, maths... it's just different and I’m able to enjoy it.

Sometimes i just read some blogs only for curiosity and there are some cool and fun blogs, and i like the way some people write, it's a whole new world for me. And some future topics, i don't mind if i must write about some other countries that i find interesting or about the fears that people have, i really hate clowns for example, so... there's a fun topic.

Whatever, it was fun, more than i expected it, and, oh, achievement unblocked: i was able to overcome my mental block without even a cigarette.

From the invisible to the visible world...

"What is essential, is invisible to the eye."

I recently read in the news about a group of pharmacists and other professionals of the health area who invented a new treatment based on nanoemulsions of a derivative of Tumeric: the curcumin. This treatment can inhibit the reappearance of cancerous cells and is apparently very effective on animals.

Nanoemultions are basically a kind of heterogeneous mix: powder of a selected product or "active ingredient" round by a lipid monolayer with other immiscible liquid that contains it. This "emulsion" is encapsulated in nanostructures and it could be administered by many ways, the process to make simple nanoemultions is energy efficient, but the trouble is that industries generally use a high amount of energy to make the process the most effective possible.

His applications are essential in the pharmaceutical industries, it allows to reduce the size of any material to nano-size (50-200 nm.) and protect, carry and deliver antimicrobials, antioxidants, drugs, pharmacological nutrients and many other substances, so they are common in the Pharmacy career.

It's really interesting the wide use that nanoemultions have, not only in the oncological treatment, but in food and cosmetic industries too, and the recent discover, shows to everyone the importance and utility of this method.

And if the essential is invisible to the eye, just bring your microscope!

The Most Enjoyable Subject...

All in all my heart still belongs to biology, i have to admit it, actually, i can't wait to start the second semester just to study about the cells, genetics, ecosystem and so much others :( whatever...

I really like Chemistry I, there's something about the study of the matter that caught my attention... it's so universal, even the Greek philosophers tried to understand what things were made of. It's really interesting study the behaviour of the atoms to form molecules, and so, i always wanted to know how really works the reactions to form compounds, and of course, lean how to name them. By the way, my favourites contents are Chemical Bond and Stoichiometry<3.

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I feel really comfortable in the class, just like a fish in its bowl and other friends from other sections are there too, actually, there are like 80 people there, and the teacher, Mrs. Atria, well, she doesn't talk... she whisper... so, it's really hard to listen when you get late to the class and there's no sit free in front.

Although, sometimes it's a little bit complex (solutions pls) and as you know, it's a class totally theoretical, i like that, but, the next semester start the practical Lab of Chemistry, and that sounds more interesting to me than the actual Lab Techniques, this last subject it's fine, but, i can't really enjoy it so much because of the pressure i feel in there... whatever, there is no subject i don't like at all, but certainly the second semester it's gonna be f*cking awesomeee!

A Person you Admire

"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others"

-Leonardo Da Vinci

His legacy is endless, born on 15 April in 1452 in Italy, Da Vinci is for me, the greatest figure of the renaissance, his work embraces from maths to painting, including astronomy, botanic, anatomy, literature and a lot more areas from the arts, humanities, and science, also he was an magnificent inventor.

Leonardo had an excepcional mind, maybe, the most complex and complete one in the history. Is recognised by their paintings, the most famous ones: The Last Supper, and The Mona Lisa, this last one is really misterious, i don't know, maybe, because the experssion of her face...

It's hard to talk about all his magnum opus, but, we all know the Vitruvian Man, which reflect the anthropocentric revolution and the most perfect machine ever made: human body, Leonardo just like me could marvel from the beauty and the incredible mechanism of everything that we are made of, just like gears that spin in a precise way. Da Vinci also studied anatomy and physiology, i heard that he used to profane bodies from the cementery just to dissect them and then, draw what he saw, material with the vascular system, a fetus in the uterus and organs like the heart, cerebral ventricles and the liver (to mention a few), also Leonardo was the first in define the atherosclerosis and liver cirrhosis.

I like Leonardo's insatiable mind of knowledge, he was unique, and when i read about his work sounds like the most interesting person i'll never know. I mean, he probably could talk about everything and enjoy to know about everything at the same time. I bet he was an inspiration for a lot of people (artists, humanists, mathematicians, scientist, writer and others). Maybe, he was a man misunderstood in his time, but now, he have the appreciation he really deserve.

And just like Leonardo said, don't be afraid to experience all the fields that you want, don't guide by the other people words, if they say that something is yellow, don't respond: ok, so it's yellow... just take a look by yourself.

My Favourite Book and Film

There is not exist a feeling comparable to finish a book. I remember when i was a kid my mother sometimes bought me some childish books to read like "¡Ay, Cuánto me quiero!" or "La familia guacatela", i don't think that titles like those sounds familiar to you but for me are an important part of my childhood, i remember i liked so much that i read them like a million times at least.

But i started to really enjoy read some books thanks to my teacher of language, she always give us cool books to read and i get into it so much that i ask her for more books. Between the Chilean writers, Pedro Lemebel, (rest in peace, master) the way he write.. his books are so enjoyable, it's incredible, my favourite books written by him are "De perlas y cicatrices" and "Tengo miedo torero". Also, i read "Mala onda" by Alberto Fuguet, a Chilean novel about a teenager, Matías Vicuña living in the middle of the dictatorship in Chile, i have to say that i loved that book, it's probably my favourite one in spanish.

I like horror books too, Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe are the reason of the 90% of my goosebumps :( advice: never read them in the night alone... well, i also like fantastic novels like A Song of Ice and Fire, The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. I remembered me so excited about the new movies of HP. I used to go to the cinema a lot, but, now... maybe once or twice at month.

Well, i like a lot a movies too, but my favourite is"Kill Bill" with the beautiful and deathly blonde, Uma Thurman by the great Quentin Tarantino, who also directed Reservoir Dogs, Unglorious bastards, Pulp Fiction and other masterpieces... "The Clockwork Orange" by Stanley Kubrick is a five stars movie, Kubrick also directed The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I like almost every movie directed by Tim Burton, who usually work with Jhonny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter, and by the way, "The Night Before Christma"s was my favourite movie when i was a kid, i know all the songs in it.

Well, i'm going to give you just a humble advice: don't read something beacause everyone read it and don't watch a movie just because it has 5 stars on netflix, come on, like my mom say: don't judge a book by his cover.

A Photograph You Like

Press the button and ¡Flash! it's taken. As we getting older, we usually forget about the past, about certain moments, people, travels... the best solution: take a camera with you, well... it's not 1998, so you could take your phone, or your tablet, or your notebook, There is any device that don't take photographs? I doubt it. Now it's easier, you don't have to wait for the developing or worry about the camera roll, welcome to the twenty-first century bit*hes, the "I want it now! age".

When i see my family albums i can't help but notice the importance of the photographs, especially because i almost don't remember my father, so, the picture of my mind of him is basically his face on photographs. And oh, how can i forget when i said to my mom: "I don't want to take the camera, mom, all i'll want to remember it's going to be on my mind" Bull*hit! I regret it so much, my best vacations on 2010 in Chiloe and i don't have any picture of it :(

Anyway, a photograph that caught my attention was a nostalgic and beautiful one, and is the proof that a picture taken in the right time can capture the perfect essence of the moment... In the middle of the war in 1994-Chechnya, a russian soldier who found an abandoned piano in the woods started to playing it, and someone just took the photo. I don't know why, but it's like this photograph has soul, it's a little bit rare combination: a soldier playing piano in the middle of nowhere, but at the same time it's so peacefull and nostalgic. Well, sorry if i can't describe it right to you, but, look at it for yourself... as you know "a picture is worth a thousand words.".

Music in My Life

            The music is like food to the soul, and you could "eat" any kind of music you wish, in my case, i could start with a plate of psychedelic rock, then listen some hip-hop, but, of course, end with a great dessert: Jazz.

          I started listening to Jazz when i was like 10 or 11 years old, because a neighbor had a band, and he used to play the Bass, one of my favorite’s instruments together with Saxophone and Piano. When i heard the music he put on the radio: i was listening Coltrane for the first time, and i just traveled to a peaceful place, it left me speechless, and it was indescribable. So, i did get so much into it, that then, when i was 15, my family bought me an alto saxophone, it was hard to learn, but it truly worth it, i love to improvise, even i play in a Band, but the time is really short because University, so, we decide to take a break until vacations.

            By the way, that doesn't mean i just listen to Jazz, because in a day i listen Chilean Music like "Los Prisioneros" or "Violeta Parra", The Doors, Michael Jackson, Radiohead, The Eagles, Iron Maiden, Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd, Edith Piaff, Calle 13, Cypress Hill, even classic music when i study, like Vivaldi, Mozart, Debussy... i listen to almost everything, except for Reaggeton, and i'm not a big fan of the new pop. Sorry if you feel judged, but i feel Reaggeton and Pop are the most commercial kind of music for me.

            Anyway, I think people shouldn't be close to listen to a specific kind of music, because, if your take your soul to the "restaurant" of music, i don't think that feed it with the same plate everytime be so funny, so, try to listen a little more of the menu!

Your favourite piece of technology

When i see the kids now, it's like they were born with a smart cellphone in a hand and a joystick in the other. I remember my childhood, and a lot of the devices in the present just did not exist. But it was fun, you know, playing out in my neighborhood with my friends... then, in my birthday (i don't remember which one), my grandfather gift me a Nintendo 64.

Maybe, it's not the best video game console i ever played
(it's definitely not), but was the first one, the same night i get it, i played it, conecting the joystick and selecting the game, then, i just get into a new fantastic world, i mean, i played some other games in arcade, in game boy and some tetris<3, but it was just not the same, because of the graphics and the complex ideas: Donkey Kong, Super Mario 64, Zelda, Mortal Combat and my favourite one: Smash Bros! Man, maybe you could have played it and be really good at it but nobody beated me when i played with Kirby.

I remember i could spent a whole day in front of the TV with the N64, playing with my friends or my cousins, having a great time, it's so nostalgic... it's hard to believe how much has changed the video games consoles through the time: Play Station, XBox, Wii, virtual reality headsets, even the computers has become a kind of video game console... anyway, i think none of these are going to be so amazing like it was the N64, and i think, even if in the future i have a son, and he born with a super hyper smart cellphone in a hand and a futuristic weird joystick (if they still exist) in the other, i'm going to play a Smash Bros round with him, and if i pick Kirby, who knows? maybe i'm still being the best!

Why did you choose your career?

As a child, you really never have to take big decisions, you can dream about what you want to be when you're all grown up, in my case, I wanted to become an entomologist, especially because I played a lot with all kind of insects like ants, woodlice, dragon-flies and others bugs in my yard. Then in high school I started to like the science and I feel in love with biology, however, chemistry and physics were equally interesting to me.

The great decision: medicine? "Man, that career is really hard, it's not for everyone, good luck if you get 850 points in PSU". Teacher of science? "Son, the pay is really low, you'll going to live to work, not work to live", it's not that I chose (or didn't chose something) just for what people said, but they made me question myself a lot, so, when I had to choose my career and university, it was a chaos, but I found a career, pharmacy, it had everything I ever expected: a lot of science, enough money to live a good life, great employment and in the university I liked the most: Universidad de Chile.

The pros: I don't regret it at all, day after day, I just feel closer to my career and I like it more and more and until now, I think I’m in a good way academically talking. Also, people I met here are really nice, they are all different and nobody have problem with that. The cons: My social life almost don't exist, God, I miss so much to get out some weekendsL, but, nothing good comes without a sacrifice.

Finally, as a pharmacist I’ll hope to work in a hospital or clinic, then teach and share my knowledge with other people… well the truth is you'll never know: you start liking bugs but at the end study chemistry!

Getting to know each other

Hey! So, something about me... i was born in Santiago, on March 13th in 1998, it's funny, a Friday 13th, i mean, it's the official "unlucky" day, well, sometimes makes senses to me. My father passed away when i was only 1 year old, so i grew up with my mother, she was my mom, my dad and my friend, a good one by the way. I didn't have siblings but i have really good memories with my cousins and friends from my neighborhood: all day playing (outside of course, oh, man, good times), you know, i have to admit it, it was a cool childhood :)

I studied in Boston College, in that place i made good friends, some of them still being important people in my life. In high school i was a little trouble, escaping from the class, smoking hidden in the bathroom, i don't know, i used to think "i can do anything i want, so f*** up" (not in a good way), and i gave a lot of headaches to my family doing all that stupid things, well... teenagers things. After the "James Dean, rebel without a cause" stage, i started to understand the things in another way because i started to think about the future and all that crap, so i started to studying (really hard) and i found myself winning the first place in my school, so, the change was good. I also found other things that i liked, just like playing saxophone in a jazz band, playing chess in "Plaza de Armas". playing with my cat "milo", reading some books and drinking some beers with my friends sometimes.

So, now i can say i'm finally here, i made it, i'm in the university (Universidad de Chile), happily i can say that here is the place i want to be, studying one of my passions, the science, and i know that this career is just starting, but i have the feeling that, after all, the date of my birth has nothing to do with it.