Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)

Well, this is the last post in this blog and it’s evaluated. It’s an essay about self evaluation of my academic year. To start, how everyone knows, I’m in my first year of University (second semester), and I have to say, the first semester was very difficult to me, because I have to adapt to another reality very different from school. But this semester was better and I feel better too.

In general, I am satisfied with this first year in University, like I said, the first semester was difficult to me, because I wasn’t giving the best of me, despite the fact that this career (more specific, this year) don’t occupy all my time and don’t suck my life like other carries. The subjects of my first semester were Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Methodology of the social research (I) and Contemporary world history. My grades were fine (better than I thought). The most difficult subject to me was Contemporary world history, not for the subject itself but the teacher (very frightening and strict). Besides these five subjects I took a CFG (general formation course) called Ecodesign, a very interesting subject about the sustainable development of products better to the environment.

The second semester was better to me because I’m getting use to the university life. The subjects were Methodology of the social research (II), Social Psychology, Latin American social history, Statistics (I), and Social science’s philosophy. I think (like other people) Social psychology is a waste of time and I don’t know why we have this subject, and about Methodology, if we only have to read the texts it’s fine, the important classes were where we reviewed the progress of our work in terrain. The most difficult subject to me in this semester was philosophy, to me, it’s hard to understand such a deep topic.

In conclusion, and like other classmate said, I entered to this career knowing nothing about Sociology, but now I think I know something about it.
In this career I have to read a lot, many chapters of different books and authors. Something good is I like to read, and I have had the opportunity to read about many different things and learn about different topics. This is something I like about Sociology, you can learn a lot of different things, and I know that I going out of the career with a huge culture. Until here, I’m very happy with my decision of studying Sociology.