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.