perrochico_'s blog for English 4

Hi there! For this blog I’m going to write my opinion of the study programme I’m coursing (Sound Engineering), and what it needs to change to be better in my perspective. The curriculum is relatively new since it was renewed in 2015, it focuses on the intersection between science, art and technology, in that way it has many interesting courses and makes the programme very dynamic (e.g. somedays you study piano and music in the morning, and calculus and physics in the afternoon, and so the other way around). But this is not as good as you think, this focus involved put together many courses in every semester (at least 8 courses), so much so in first year we have 10 courses and in Mondays we had classes from 8:30 am to 9:00 pm with no much free times, only 15 min. between classes and 1 hour for lunch. Considering the technology focus the infrastructure needs a improvement, the labor field in sound engineering demands to professionals know how to handle newer gear which the university...

 Hi everyone! For this blog I’m going to share mi opinion, and my experience as well, about the “mechoneo”. This is an old Chilean tradition in the Universities of Chile and it’s the equivalent to a initiation ritual for those who enter to study. In consequence, the new students are called “mechones”. I think it has a good spirit, to introduce newer students to college life, but in the practice there are so many cases which ended bad, whit accidents and aggressions. In the newest and most well-known cases, there are 12 students who ended up with burns on their skin as a result of a mixture of chemicals in “Universidad Austral”, a student who died because she was hit by a train in Valparaiso, and a 7 month pregnant was attacked in Concepcion. Things like these motivate universities to ban these activities. In my personal experience, I was “mechoneado”. In my case it was really disgusting, we had to “swim” in a mini-pool full of garbage and then kiss a pig head. Next, they put ca...

     Hi everyone! Today i’m going to write about a future job I would like to have. Writing about this topic is a bit hard for me and now I’m going to explain why.      I am studying in the university since 2016 (for 5 years considering this year) and in the first 3 years I interested in the musical work related to sound engineering, I mean jobs like music producer, recording engineer, mix and master engineer, but I specially interested in live sound reinforce, which refers to do sound in live activities like concerts, conferences, festivals, theater plays, etc. So, I enter to Centro Cultural Espacio Elefante (CCEE), it’s a student organization which organize live activities in “artes centro” (campus Alfonso Letelier Llona) to learn about that job from older students.