Final Essay: Self evaluation of my academic year

This is my last academic year. It has been four years since I entered to Anthropology at the University of Chile. It has been four years in where the routine has been the same one : a challenging beginning of the semester, a course with lows and highs moments, to finish in a very stressful end. This is something that I already know. Nevertheless, my thesis is that this last year has been more challenging that the previous ones, by the fact to be the last year of degree. It is truth that has been more challenging, but also has been an exhausting year, because the intense rate that we have.

This year we have had some field works, have appeared many projects, we have many subjects, and we are beginning to think about our future like professionals. Little by little, we have been dismissing ourselves of our university, which in spite of being so intense, has been a beautiful and fruitful experience, at least for me.

Do you want to know why it has been the most challenging year of all?

I believe that it has been challenging because we have much to do, many projects . In my case, many opportunities have appeared to do very interesting things. The challenge is in managing to make it everything with joy and responsibility. I believe that I am doing well, although is vey bad to feel that your time is consumed by the university. I believe even though that I dedicate long time of my life to anthropology, also I have been able to make other things that I like (not all I wanted) like flamenco and being in “La Escuelita”, which does to me very well.

Also it has been a challenging year because this is the last year!. I want to go out the university feeling prepared to be a good anthropologist, for that reason I have studied more and I have been more responsible. I believe that I have learned much, and for that reason I feel happy. But also, sometimes I feel that it was insufficient time.

In conclusion, I believe that it has been a good academic year. I have taken advantage of it and I have responded well to the challenges that appeared to me. The land work, the assistantship, the good subjects, and other things, have been taken vey seriously from me. But also there have been negative things, because I feel tired and a little trapped. In addition, it’s common the bad quality of some subjects, the problem is to feel that I am spending time studying something useless. Anyway… although I criticize my carrere and this exhausting year, I go away calm and very safe that I never could have studied another thing.

Good bye!!!
Freckles!