Long Hols!
14 years ago
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Hi everyone =) Are you kidding me? I think all my classmates know of what this topic is about! I mean, obstetricians are the most stressed students of the Medicine Faculty.. And I am not just saying this just because, I know this is a FACT! Everybody knows it! Since I entered to the university I have been stressed, I do not remember have felt like this before, my life have changed a lot. I never have time to go out, to talk with my friends and when I do is all about the university or we end up talking with scientific, anatomical, physiological, etc. terms. Is like everywhere I look I see something that has to do with university! This thing took control of my life and I certainly do not like it!
The RAE define stress as: “Tensión provocada por situaciones agobiantes que originan reacciones psicosomáticas o trastornos psicológicos a veces graves.” In English it would be something as: “Stress caused by overwhelming situations that cause psychological or psychosomatic reactions sometimes severe”. Well the University by itself is already overwhelming, if you add to that the situation that Midwifery students have to deal with the "curricular innovation" and moreover you do not have good study habits, have little knowledge of scientific subjects you always going to be more stressed because all the study never will be enough, you are going to be always at the edge of failing your courses. This is exactly my case! So imagine how I feel.
The stress is a part of my life now and is not a good feeling. This situation even brought a lot of problems to my personal life, especially with my family and the people around me. I am more irritable, I get upset very easily and I am always fighting over little things. So I hope this year end very quickly but not too much so I can be able to study everything I need to know for my exams and pass all my courses. My way to deal with it? Very simple: Wrestling!
This is all I have to say about stress at university, enjoy!
The RAE define stress as: “Tensión provocada por situaciones agobiantes que originan reacciones psicosomáticas o trastornos psicológicos a veces graves.” In English it would be something as: “Stress caused by overwhelming situations that cause psychological or psychosomatic reactions sometimes severe”. Well the University by itself is already overwhelming, if you add to that the situation that Midwifery students have to deal with the "curricular innovation" and moreover you do not have good study habits, have little knowledge of scientific subjects you always going to be more stressed because all the study never will be enough, you are going to be always at the edge of failing your courses. This is exactly my case! So imagine how I feel.
The stress is a part of my life now and is not a good feeling. This situation even brought a lot of problems to my personal life, especially with my family and the people around me. I am more irritable, I get upset very easily and I am always fighting over little things. So I hope this year end very quickly but not too much so I can be able to study everything I need to know for my exams and pass all my courses. My way to deal with it? Very simple: Wrestling!
This is all I have to say about stress at university, enjoy!
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Today I am going to talk about the paper “Understanding the brain: The birth of a learning science”, particularly about the chapter six: “Dispelling ‘Neuromyths’”. The chapter talks about myths in Neuroscience, and I found very interesting the topics the chapter talks about but specially one caught my attention. Is a myth that I always believe it was true and that I heard a lot of people talking about it. The author gives the myth in the text the following name “But I read somewhere that we only use 10% of our brains”.
The text talk how the myth came, and the hypothesis they give is that it came from Einstein, I am sure you are wondering how could that be and the answer is that he was the first person to say he use only the ten percent of his brain and that research supported this.
The experiment they did to prove the myth was this: They used electric shocks to see which areas react and how they could not see the react they said that those areas were not functional.
Another origin of the myth could have emerged for the composition of the brain. The glial cells are the ones “feed” neurons but they can not transmit the nerve impulse. And besides there in 10 glial cells for 1 neuron so some people thought that this would explain how the “ten percent myth” has come from.
Now in our days there are new techniques to watch this, scientists know more about the composition of the brain so they did a new experiment in patients with local anaesthetic and they saw how all the areas of the brain were active. And they also said that for physiological reasons evolution would not let us waste 90% of our brain.
And that was the end of the myth. When I was reading I really thought the second origin of the myths I told you could be true, but when I read the last experiment I ended up believing that it was false! but it was interesting to know that not everything the people say is true.
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I think the answer for the question “Is it possible to have a healthy lifestyle” is definitely YES! The difficult part is start doing it and keep that kind of lifestyle. When I heard the title for this blog I instantly thought in diet and exercise. Lately I started doing both, and when I used to start diets I always drop them and with exercise was the same thing but this time it has been different. I am very happy with that so I will tell you my history.
Everything started after the “Fiestas Patrias” when I decided that I was going to start doing a diet. At first it was hard but now I get used to the diet and I like it. Every morning I drink a cup of tee and eat a piece of bread, then at the middle of the day I eat a yoghurt and at lunchtime I eat a plate with a lot and different types of salads. Then when I get home I drink another cup of tee and at dinner time I eat my grandmother’s food and that is it for the rest of the day. I know if a nutritionist saw that it would say that is wrong but it is working for me so I am going to continue with that.
I also knew that I need it to do exercise but I never like doing that, I think is so boring and each time I started doing it I always quit but like two weeks ago I remember that I have seen a sport that I really love and always wanted to do it so I start looking where I could practice it, and last weekend I finally start to practice wrestling and I fell in love with it again so I can not wait to be weekend again.
I hope all this sacrifice help me to achieve my goal. That’s my history and I really happy with it.
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This time I have to talk about my favorite childhood memory and when the teacher told the topic I realized that I could not remember a lot of things, but then when I start thinking harder I remember one thing that I loved. That is Christmas!! I always love that holiday specially when I was I child, but that is not the memory I want to tell you but it has to do with that. Every 24th at night (Christmas Eve) my cousins and I wait for Santa Claus so our relatives always took us to see houses that were like near for were I used to live with my grandparents. We always went there because in those houses they put a lot of lights and figures so it was really beautiful to watch, I always remember that. Then when I moved from that house I stopped going there and years after I asked my grandfather what happened with that place and he said that it seems like they stop doing that and it was very sad to know.
Other memories that I can think of (and I can remember) is that when I was little and I live in my other house we have a lot of fruit trees and it was so big that with my mom we had to climb them to pick their fruit, and I remember that I loved that! It was so exciting!! Other memories are that I used to have a doll house, It was bigger than me then so I could go in there and stay there with my dolls, it was fun and that house is one of the things I missed a lot when I came to my actual house.
After this assignment I realized that all of my best childhood memories happened in my old house so I think that explained why I want to come back.
Other memories that I can think of (and I can remember) is that when I was little and I live in my other house we have a lot of fruit trees and it was so big that with my mom we had to climb them to pick their fruit, and I remember that I loved that! It was so exciting!! Other memories are that I used to have a doll house, It was bigger than me then so I could go in there and stay there with my dolls, it was fun and that house is one of the things I missed a lot when I came to my actual house.
After this assignment I realized that all of my best childhood memories happened in my old house so I think that explained why I want to come back.