Gone with the semester

It’s 17^th of November of 2009 and I’m at the last weeks from my academic year, I have slept only a few hours the last days and my brain is working just by inertia – I don’t know when it’s going to stop working I’m going to collapse –. Definitely I have some words to write about this academic year, I hope that you don’t get too much bored while I do a self evaluation about my performance in the year – and also the things that I had to say about the year also –. Well, let’s begin this stuff (yeah dear followers I’m working under Judy’s Justice Hand pointing at me...it’s only a joke Judy)

This year definitely there are two options: or I have been lazy about academic things or the year is more difficult than the last one. Or maybe are the two of them? I don’t know, I don’t think that I have been lazy along the year, but maybe I haven’t been as organized as the last year – but I don’t really remember of been at such high level of organization my last academic year –. So I am inclined to the second idea: this academic year is more difficult than the last one; and that could be very reasonable if you think it for a little, because I have been through better professor that also have been more demanding at their subjects.

How can I say that? Well because this year I needed to take more seriously some subjects or I couldn’t exempt from their exams – for example the Statistics II or Linguistic exams...they were awful, I don’t want to do an exam never in my life again – but I need to recognize that the ones that I were the worst subjects were the worst because I didn’t put too much effort in them – yeah, maybe that’s the real reason of why I had to do those exams –. That’s why I putted more effort this last semester, even if that the subjects of this semester are the worst in my two tears at the university (obviously English is not included in the subjects I’m talking...because English with Judy has been one of the best ones of the year).

So, concluding finally, I can say that from all of what I have written before – and using the last neurons of my brain remembering things about the academic year –. You can say that the year has been a lot more complicated than the other one, or maybe the last one was easy one purpose so you could pass one year and then get through this hell of stress and knowledge. But I can’t complain too much about this amount of pressure because I love what I’m doing and I can only expect of what’s going to happen the next year when I’m going to get at the specialities – people says that those are the real thing that you must be scared of –.

Well, I think it’s enough for now...Farewell!

Anthropology...we need to talk

Dear Anthropology:

I need to tell that we need to talk; because this can’t be any longer...there are some things about you that I don’t like too much. I know it could be a little bit difficult to accept them and change, but I need to tell you.

I think that you’ve got problems about using new technologies for investigations – except about the physical anthropology that use biogenetical technology or archaeology with their dating methods – but generally you use the same ways of investigation as a century before, well more than that, especially in ethnography where is very primitive the way of recollecting information; if you could use something more than a field diary – maybe a notebook and internet could be a good idea – as your only testimony about information in field work. Oh! And please use software to analyse quantitative and qualitative information.

Know, I’ve got to tell that you’re very narcissist about the knowledge you produce or the interventions that you don’t do when you have the tools in places where are problems that you investigate. Maybe if you could develop a diffusion of anthropological knowledge at schools or common people then more people could know about the great work that you’ve done along the years; also if you could have more interest about the things that are happening in the places that you go for research, not only to analyse but also to look for a solution for the problems that people have.

At least there is one thing that you have, and I don’t like, it’s the fact that there are so many concepts that says the same things every time but with different words. That makes very difficult to learn about education...so please decide one concept per idea yes? Because that could be easier for everyone who is studying anthropology, and also it could be good to evade some banal discussion about concepts... yeah that could be a good idea to do.

That’s all of what I wanted to say, but while I was writing... I realized it isn’t your problem to be like this; it’s from the people that do anthropology. If they could read this and do some of the things I said it could be awesome!

Well, see you around Anthropology ;)