Catalina Orellana

I'm in the first year of my career, dentistry, and I think that it's rushed to think of a specialization yet. I have some ideas, especially because we have a subject called Destrezas, where some specialists went to talk to us about their specializations, and that served to know more about it. There were two of those specializations that called my attention, imageology and maxillofacial surgery. The first one, I think that called my attention because the girl that made that class represented her ideas very well and display in a way that made the specialty looks very interesting. Maxillofacial surgery I think that it's closer to what I really want, because it has more "action", and it's so related to anatomy (that it's my favorite subject) because you have to know so good head and neck. I think that is important to have a specialization, because it opens many doors to find a good job, especially if you make the course abroad (in a good place, like New Z...

Since I was a child I wanted to be a dentist. This idea arose because I was watching TV, and in a program appeared one girl that was a dentist. At that moment I decided that I wanted to be like her, because it showed that she loved what was doing, and obviously loved her job. Now that I'm studying this career, I can say that I make the right choice, and I want to work as a dentist when I finish this. I would like to work in a hospital first, because my purpose is to help poor people, as I know that go to the dentist is so expensive, and I think that help to people that really need it it's so beautiful. Also, I think that work with those people is the best "school", I mean that is where you really learn things and gain more experience. After that, I want to travel, obviously, I want to gain as much experience as possible, and there's not another way to make it to know other countries and other cultures, because oral health in Chile can be very different fro...

I discovered my favourite TV series in 2018, so many people had told me that it was a fantastic series, the best that they had seen, but never caught my attention, because it isn't the kind of series that I usually watch. This series is Breaking bad. One day I was bored in my home, and I decided to see a chapter of this series. Since that moment I loved it, and I couldn't stop seeing it. First, I fell in love with all the characters, I think that each one had a particular personality that made them unique. Also, despite being very explicit it also has a touch of humour, and I think that that mix it's so interesting. The director and producer is Vince Gilligan. This series is about a chemistry teacher, called Walter White (made by Bryan Cranston) that was diagnosed with lung cancer. He thought that he was going to die, and as he didn't have so much money to leave to his family, he decided to manufacture and sell methamphetamine, with the help of Jesse (made by Aaron Pa...

If I have to choose a teacher that really inspired me and that I really admired is my chemistry teacher that I had in school. I came to study in that school in 2013, and since that moment he became in my chemistry teacher until I finished my school stage. His name is Leandro Díaz. I have to say that at fist I don't like him very well, because he has a very particular personality and a humor that not many understand. Chemistry always was easy to me, and it was a subject where I got good grades, and for that reason I started to have a good relashionship with my teacher. In that moment I noticed that he was like one of us, maybe because he's young. Sometimes, with another two friends, we went to his classroom during recess and he told us anecdotes and he started talking about other teachers who didn't like him. He was so funny, and he always told me that he had a lot of faith in me. He always encouraged me to give the best of my. One of the most important things that I a...

My best holidays ever were when I went to La Serena with my friends last summer. We were there for a week and stayed in my friend's house. I went with my school friends, and we had planned this holidays for a long time, but we had never organized it. I have to say that I always go to La Serena with my family, but it is not the same to go with your family and go with your friends. With my friends, I made many things that I usually don't do with my parents, and knew a lot of places that I had never gone to. In the day, we usually went to the beach to enjoy the ocean and sunbathe and went to different restaurants to have lunch and taste different meals. At night we usually went to parties, and when we didn't do that, we spent time at home and cooked or played games. I think that has been my best holidays, because it was so comfortable spent time with my friends, I really enjoyed that holidays because we had talked about that so much time, and finally made it. ...

I've never been to another country, the only time that I visited another country was when I went to Bariloche with my classmates in my study tour, but it doesn't count because we didn't know the places so much. The country that I really want to go to is Greece. I'd like to visit it because I think that it's a beautiful place to go on holidays to rest and enjoy the view. I remember that I knew about this country for a movie that I saw when I was a child and it was filmed in this place, and since that moment I'm in love with this place. What I know about this country it's that is a very touristic place, with a very interesting history behind it, with a lot of wars and events that allowed it consolidate as the country that is it now. That's one of the reasons why I want to go there and one of the first things that I want to do: learn and know more about it and know more about their culture, besides know all the most iconic places, although the pla...

Since 2017 (when I finished  school) I haven't practiced my English. I think that writing blogs this year has helped me so much to improve my knowledge and remember the words and the phrases that I had forgotten. I think that this activity helps a lot, because besides it works to practice more your english, it allows you to know more about your classmates and teacher, like knowing what  their favourite book, series, movie, etc is. Personally, I learn things best when I write about something specific, more than when I talk, and writing blogs all this semester I think has improved my abilities in english. Besides, learning to write correctly in english is the first step to start to talk in a good form in english. I remember that in school, I loved writing in english, because my teacher made us write in english a lot too. In the future I would like to continue with the blogs, but now with topics related to our carreer, Odontology, to start internalizing the words and ...

The subject that I enjoyed studying this semester is chemistry. This subject is the science that study the composition, structure and properties of matter, and changes of energy that experiment the matter during a chemical reaction. This subject, it's useful specially in the medicine, because thanks to the chemistry, it's possible to create the medicines for many disseases. I love this subject for many reasons. Fisrt, I have to say that I love study chemistry since I start to have this subject in the school. At the begging, it wasn't easy to me undersand this subject, because it was something new to me (the structure of the atom, the chemical reactions, and others). I really wanted to understand it, so I study very hard, until I finally did it. I think that it's importat understand this subject from the beginning, because if you don't understand the basic concepts, it's going to be so difficult understand the topics that will be seen in later years. I think ...

Now that I'm in the university, it's so important that you use reliable and certified internet pages. One of my favourites pages to search information for is  SciELO. This page, has a lot of papers and articles about many things, a lot of them are experiments with animals, or studies based on people. I like this page because it's in Spanish, and it's easier for me to search for the information in cases of emergency. I'm using this page so much because I have to make an ABP, that is an oral presentation about some topic that your teacher gives you. In my case, I have to talk about pesticides and malformations, and there isn't so much information about that, or at least, nothing concrete. For that reason, this page has helped me a lot, because it has a lot of experiments with animals and epidemiological studies. Since I discovered this page,  I look up information about this topics at least 1 time a week, and every time I discover new studies. I recomend this pa...

Hi everyone! today I would like to share with you which is my favourite place in Chile. This place is La Serena. I love this place for many reasons. First, since I was little I always go on vacacions there, so I think that I know this place so well. What most I like about La Serena are its beaches, especially totoralillo, the sea in that place is fantastic. When I go on vacacion to La Serena, I usually stay there for 2 or 3 weeks, and I usually go with my family. The last summer, I went with my friends, because one of them has a house there, so we stay for a week. That week, I knew another parts, because when I go with my parents, they just want to be in the beach. With my friends went to eat to some differents restaurants, we went to party, and we did differents activities such riding on roller skates or taking a boad ride. If you don't know this place yet, I invite you to go, it's very beautiful and you won't regreat it.

In this photo, I'm standing with one of my best friends in a waterfall from Cajon del maipo. We went this year, in summer holidays; she invited me to her house in this place, and we went with all his family. I'm not sure, but I think that this picture was took for his cousin, and I remember that we were planning to pose for the photo, but it was impossible because it was a lot of wind. I love this picture for many reasons. First, because I've never been in this place before, and I loved it. I think that it was a really beautiful place to took a photograph, and I remember, that it was a very peaceful and relaxing place. Another reason it's because it's a spontaneous photo, in wich we appear laughning and having a good time like always when we are together, besides we don't have many photos together, because we don't have so much time to get togheter, thinking that we know each other only since last year, in the pre-university. The last reason it's bec...

Hi everyone! today I'm going to talk about my favorite film, called "Always by your side (Hachiko)". I think that most people have seen this movie, especially if you love the dogs. There's so much reasons why I love this movie, and why it's my favorite. First, I have to say that I love the dogs, whatever their race, and with this movie I confirm that a dog can really be the most faithful animal in the world. The history, it's so well narred and starred, that it's impossible for you don't be moved with it, and that's the fisrt reason why it's my favorite movie. Secondly, beacuse the movie it's based in a true story, where a dog called Hachiko (like in the movie) waited for his owner in the same place, at the same time, and every day until the day of his death. Knowing that it isn't a fictional history, allows you to move even more with the movie. And the third reason, it's a little bit masochistic. I love watch this movie the ...

I use so many types of techonoly in my day to day, and since I'm living with my uncle, I spent the majority of the time alone, so I don't have so much time to cook my food, so I buy frozen food, or keep food that my mom cook during the week in the refrigerator and when I come to my uncle's home, I put it in the microwave to eat it after. If I have to choose some piece of technology, I would have to choose the cellphone. I've started to use it when I have 10 years old and since that day, I couldn't leave it. Technically, I can use it to everything. In holidays I use it so much more, to see videos in Youtube, to talk with my friends, or to use instagram. But now that I'm the university, it's essential for me to another uses. Although I don't have so much time now to see videos, or see instagram, I use it to look for information about something realtioned with some subject. To me, it's easier to use than the computer, because it's faster and I got...

When I was a child, I didnt know exactly what I  wanted to study. I always liked maths, and chemistry, but never found a carrer connected with that subjects that I really  liked  Although I like biology, I was never so fan of that asignature, or at least not like maths or chemistry, but I was clear that I liked so much the science, and the investigation, so I start to investigate about health carreers, and one of that called my attention: the nutricion. My sister it's a nutricionist, and I always loved what she was studying. I always investigate about food, their components, how to have a healthy diet, etc. Actually I still love that topics, but now, found a job in that area its so complicated, because they'are so much nutricionist in Chile , so I discarded it. One day, I was looking the TV, and i saw a girl that was a dentist, and started to talk about the carrer, since that day, i'm in love with the odontology. The part that I most like about this carrer, is th...

I was born in Santiago, Chile. I have 19 years old and I have a brother called Gustavo, and a sister called Alejandra, both older than me. I have a dog too, called Dulce, that technically grew with me  All my life i've lived with my parents, in Maipú, but actually i`m living with my uncle, because her house it's nearest to my university; i stay there five days at week, and the weekends i come back to my house. I left the school in 2017 and after that, i gave for the first time the PSU, with the idea to gives  me a   sabbatical year; so i take it,  which i did a pre-university, to prepared me well to take the PSU again.  I always wanted to study Odontology, so after the results of the test, i started to study Odontology in Universidad de Chile. Until now, i love what i’m studying, and the people that i have come to know, they are so kind and friendly, and although i haven’t had many matters related with the teeths, every time i convinced me that it’s what i w...