Romina

  Personally, there are many things that I would change in the race. Starting with the curriculum, in the specialty of physical anthropology there are very few practical, doing it difficult to learn about bone structure and morphology in detail. The first two years were of a common plan, they would teach us subjects from the three specialties, but practically it was almost all social, the students what wanted archeology and physical anthropology were not considered. The FACSO facilities have improved over time, but there is still much work to be done. The part where the collections are located are not well organized, lack space and order, because very few people work for that area. There is a lack of resources to improve the green areas of the faculty, we have to go to eat at Arts, because it is prettier and less dark to eat. Technology is limited, many tools are missing, which is noticeable when working with bones or archaeological material. The teaching method is very theoret...

My summer vacations are usually boring and I only dedicate myself to work, but in my free time I go to my mother, she lives near La Unión, a small town between Valdivia and Osorno, but in the countryside, in the middle of a forest. When it is hot, we walk 2 kilometers and reach the river, it is beautiful and all natural without the intervention of man. Once a year, usually for the new year, we all (my brothers and nephews) get together at my mother's house to vacation. We drink, eat, laugh, play, go fishing, exploring and swimming as a family. I think of summer vacation and only a family photo in the country comes to mind, but if I could go where I wanted before I died, I would like to go to Russia in winter. It must be very cold, but it must be very nice to see all white. The famous St. Basil's Cathedral with snow, looks like a real palace from a fairy tale. In general the architecture of Moscow is complex and majestic, this makes it a very touristy place. I would like to trav...

  This time I’m going to write about my faithful companion, my cat. My cat is called Hobbes Dimitri Vladimir Vladivostok, his name is very long and powerful, but I did not choose it, so we all call them only Hobbes. He is 7 years old, the first 2 years of his life he was with my sister (she chose the long and powerful name hahaha) and then because of space problems he got to with me and never left again. It is the most tender cat that exists, it has never scratched anyone. All the mornings wake me up to open the bed and sleep next to me. He understands by his name and comes when they call him by his name, he looks like a dog instead of a cat. He is fear of moths and is very bad at fly hunting. Once he took him to the field, expecting him to play, but he only to sleep next to the woodstove. He is fear of moths, but with dogs the story is different, my dad has 3 dogs at home, they are littles and sleep with my younger sister, but in the holidays, the dogs must go to the yard,...

In my academic plans I am to finish my degree early, then work some time to save money, because like many people the money is not enough for me to continue studying immediately. I would like to do a post-graduate degree in archaeology in Chile, I feel that it is a part of anthropology that complements physical anthropology very well and I really like Chilean archaeology, so I would not think about doing it anywhere else. To continue in my area, which is physical anthropology, I must go abroad, because in Chile there are no post graduate degrees of that. I have thought about going to Mexico to study, but as always money is an obstacle, I will have to work hard to achieve it, but I do not lose hope. Working in museums also catches my attention, but it would be one of my last options, to do it well I should take courses in social anthropology, to be able to bring the magic of museums to people and make them want to get closer too. However, even though I have many plans, all my plans are...

In the present, I'm in the fourth year of physical anthropology, enter the career thinking that I wanted to be part of the PDI and be a forensic anthropologist, over the years, my goals changed, now I like more the bioarchaeology and working with living populations I also like it a lot. In the future, I would like to work for northern Chile, visit and participate in excavations, study of mummies typical of Chile, which are also the oldest in the world, the mummies "Chinchorro".  Archaeology also I like, it is a vital support to be able to understand the ways of life of populations that not exist today. I would like to study archaeology, so that complement physical anthropology.  When I think about work, I just imagine outdoors dig up bones and then studying them, but dig up I have to be an archaeologist,  then for now I can only think about working in the morgue or a lab with corpses and bones, what archaeologists can bring me. Working in museums would also be great. If I...

Choosing my current career was difficult, at school I always liked numbers, I wanted to be an engineer for a long time, in my last year of high school I had a radical change and wanted to study medicine, in the end I never managed to decide which career to study. I went into baccalaureate in science and then I switched to baccalaureate in the humanities, I wanted to do everything at once, everything I liked. At the end of the first year of baccalaureate, a friend introduced me to an archaeology student and told me that anthropology allowed me to do everything, you could be a social anthropologist, health anthropologist, archaeologist, growth, coroner, and many other areas. She was telling things about the career that I really liked, so the next year I went into anthropology, when I walked in, I had doubts about what to mention the choice, but I decided on physics. I love my career, I love bones, but it is unmotivating the little work field that exists in Chile, nobody knows the caree...