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A subject you enjoyed studying this term

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A subject which has currently affected, in great magnitude, the faculty is suicide among the students. This is due to the actual suicide of a workmate and two others that were on the verge of doing the same thing. As often happens in these cases there is hardly any prevention but a lot of talking amongst us once the tragedy has occured. Personally I think not enough importance is given to these cases in Chile, the worst has to happen before anyone takes any action. I remember needing psicological help, mainly because I needed some type of contention and as always there were no hours available in the public health enteties and when I tried to find help within the faculty the waiting list was enormous. I could have had suicidle ideas without any support to avoid them. I dont know if this is the same in other countries but here in Chile its obvious that help is difficult to find. I wish that the depression, words and actions of our workmates were taken more seriously. I
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A career-related website / an expert on your field

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In architecture inspiration is totally necessary. The best projects have been created on the way to work, whilst you watch tv or by seeing objects on the street. There are moments in which you see a centre piece on a coffee table and you hear   a click in yourhead you have been waiting for, it sounds crazy but thats the way it is with art. When you least expect it you see something with the form of your future project, even the smell of something can generate a good idea. Although nowadays things have changed, the need for imagination is no longer that important because inspiration and good ideas can be found on internet.  In my personal experience, during my first year of university, one doesnt know the short cuts you can take so as to reduce your work load and physical stress. The most dificult part of architecture is thinking of what to do, I remember having spent whole nights awake with this dilema. I would like to make it clear that I havent stopped thinking or creating bu
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What's your favourite TV show / film?

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One of my past times is watching movies and reading, both are clearly related. The best movies are those   that interpret books, many of them the creation of great authors. One of my principal rules is to watch the film after Reading the book, this   is because I find it truly thrilling to imagine the characters, their physical aspects and their surroundings. Their psicologial trates are easier to get to know and in movies these details are very difficult to show as the autor would have them portrayed. For example there are small details but not less important that are not shown in movies, one of these and the first that comes to mind is the color of Harry Potter’s eyes, one of the firts books I read and one of the first films I watched. the boy in the movie has blue eyes and his mother’s are brown. In the book, however, this detail stomts out when the shape and color of his eyes are mentioned relating them to one of the physical aspects he has inherited from his mother and they
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A photograph and its story

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The image I chose makes me remember my childhood. When I was raised with a lot of love by my family until my brother was born and then my cousins. I was always my grandparent's favorite and my uncle's too. Even after the others were born I could swear I was still everybodys favorite. I am the little girl in the picture and the other girl is my cousin. She was my best friend and my confident, we were raised together, infact she was more than a cousin to me she was like a sister. I chose this foto with her because she represents a great part of my childhood. I miss her very much, as we grew up we went our seperate ways, each one forming her own family. We no longer live together, we no longer tell each other everything. The distance between as has made sure of this. But the love I feel for her and the memories like this precious image will always remain. Like she says i will always be her little beast and she will be an example i can follow. I would never change the childhood
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What are some of your favourite hobbies / pastimes?

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What are some of your favourite hobbies / pastimes? I have quite a few hobbies and pastimes but i must admit the ones i prefer are reading and watching movies. This doesnt make me an antisocial person or this doesnt mean i like to run away from my reality i guess i just love fiction.  My favorite authors are Agatha cristie and stephen king when it comes down to chosing suspense. Both authors are very different to each other, they have a unique style of writing but i find they keep me hanging on to the very end. I have quite a collection of their books, my favorite thriller by agatha cristie has to be 'murder on the midnight express'. I love the way she doesnt let on to the murderer until the very last. Its brilliant when one of her detectives starts suspecting of one of the characters and you follow every lead he does. On the other hand there's Stephen King with his spine chilling personalities few of which tend to be human. 'IT' is one of his very best no
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What´s you favourite piece of technology? My favorite tecnological item is definately my cell phone. I cant imagine life without it. I wake up with the alarm I have programmed on my phone and if I want to snooze for a few minutes more I press a button and I hace five or ten minutes, depending on how many I have programmed, more in bed. After breakfast I browse through my messages and check to see if my daughter's teacher has asked for any extra materials, once this is done I go to my other whatsups and see if anything important is going down through out the day. If I need a taxi, urgently, all I have to do is go to my app and order one. Sometimes lunch is going to be late so my mum gets me to order something cheap and according to her nutritios. I can get in touch with just about anyone in the world without having to pay a penny more for the call thanks to WhatsApp. Everyday I have homework from the university so on the the bus trip home I go on to internet and try to advance as
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Why I decided to study architecture! This is a   complicated question for me to answer, do I like this career? During my life prior to university I asked myself on many ocasions what i wanted to do with my future or what i wanted to be, there was a time I wanted to be a doctor then i   didnt want to do anything, to tell the truth i had a dificult time deciding on what I wanted to study. I have always liked to read so this played a big role in my decisión, I gave teaching a lot of thought, becoming a lawyer was also an interesting option. One week before the applications I realized I have always liked drawing and history of different countries and I had to choose a career which would allow me to include both of these. Finally I decide on architecture and here I am four years after. After such a long time you would think this was the right choice for me but im still not a hundred percent convinced this is the direction i want to go or if i love what im doing but i have to admit
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