My Experience Blogging

I really liked posting here. Although many weeks i could not do it in time, anyway i managed to post all the blogs and comply with the requirements of the course.

The blog gave me more practice to improve my english. And finally that is what we need most to have a fluent english: practice and more practice. It is the law of life, practice to improve.

It was also fun because i usually had to write about subjects that i chose, so it was not something tedious but rather entertaining. I talked about myself, my career, yoga, how much i hate Santiago, among other things.

I also used to read my mates blogs, which dealt with very interesting things. This gave a sense of community to the personal task and also helped us to know each other better by sharing the topics that we liked.

I would suggest for the next semester to add a blogspot in which a personal video speaking english is required. In that way we would not only work on the expression of written english, but also on spoken english. I think it is necessary, because both forms are very different from putting them into practice.

Artificial Intelligence

Since the nineteenth century technology has been growing at a rate never before seen, and is already reaching exponential levels.

Thus during the last years we have seen new inventions such as radio, television, cell phone, etc.

One of the most interesting is the computer, because from it the human being can program different codes to create new inventions better than the previous ones.

And so we even create the "artificial intelligence" (AI). An algorithm that is able to solve complex problems, and generate knowledge through its errors and the environment.

Now, if we do not start to legislate about it and treat it with great care then at any moment could appear the drop that overflows the glass and the matter may get out of hand. Because the devices we have created are capable of storing much, but much more information than our own brains. And now we are adding an intelligence independent of us that can use these data at its convenience. Thus, if we are not careful, we will end up facing a metaphysical monster that is much more capable than all of us. And with that, the Matrix movie could stop being just fiction.

Culture of classical architecture

The subject that I have enjoyed the most this semester is "Culture of classical architecture". Here we study the origin of architecture, and how different currents and schools have developed throughout history.

I like it because history is very important to understand how we got here. We have analyzed from the first human settlements, then through the classic Greece and Rome to our days, and it makes a lot of sense to see how the architecture has always developed taking as reference past things to improve them and bring them to the present with a new personality thanks to technological advances.

I have learned a lot in this course, because we have gone through many historical moments. And we not only learn architecture, because to understand it we must also learn from the social and economic changes that occurred throughout history. That's why I consider it a very complete course.

Classical Greece is the period that most intrigued me, partly also because there are many things that have not yet been revealed and all the knowledge we have is based on ruins that were left from that time.

Plataforma Arquitectura

I am going to talk a little about a web for architects that i recommend. I mean www.archdaily.com.

This website provides information on different projects around the world, ranging from cultural, educational, sports and industrial projects to religious, public and commercial projects. This is the section that I use the most.

In addition, news, opinion articles, books and interviews are published.

It has a section where different products for the construction of infrastructures are sold.

Information about architectural events is also available, but it is difficult to fit in with any because it can be anywhere in the world.

Finally, competitions sponsored by agencies around the world in search of new talent are published.

The website can be visited in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.

To be honest I do not visit this website a lot, but I use it when I need images of certain projects to present about them in classes. That's why I like the web, because it has information about many projects around the world.

I hate Santiago

And i don't mean to a man. I mean to the city, yes, this city.

I am pretty sure i am not the only person with this feeling, because if you borned and raised up in a smaller city for sure you understand this for yourself. But if tou didn't, i am going to explain the point.

Walking through this city is more exhausting than walking in others because the air is of poor quality, because wherever you look you only see cement and more cement, and because the noise drives you crazy.

I despair of not having a place nearby with pure air and without apartments everywhere, where the sky can be seen and the silence allows me to calm down after a day of studies.

Also, people are not exactly nice. Everyone is living their world and no one smiles. Asking something to someone is scary.

My christening

This picture was taken in my catholic-apostolic-roman christening. From left to right: my mother, me, my father, and my baptize godfather and godmother.

I really don't remember how old i was for this moment, but my face said everything. I mean, i didn't understand anything of the ritual. I can remember my father and mother told me something like god, faith, and stuffs like this but clearly i didn't get in the feeling.

Indeed, nowadays i don't understand yet this things, thats why i am not so devotee, as my family are. I respect their thoughs, and share the same table when they are praying to god before eat, but i am like "amen too, but let me eat please".

I believe in god but i don't thing i have to thing him (or her) and pray to him for every single thing i live. It is dangerous because it can be an excuse to ask him to do everything and blame him for what does not go well, instead of giving the best of myself.