The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as preparation for his future career. I am convinced that the only way to eliminate these great evils is through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented towards social goals.
Albert Einstein, May 1949
65 years later it is funny to see how the same problems remain in the educational system, and how we have been unable to move forward to those social goals instead of pure and bloody competitiveness. What a visionary this Einstein guy was…
The Riot Club, what a movie. During so many moments it was disgusting and annoying for so many reasons. The main one: knowing that a part of the English culture, which I generally love and admire, it is like that. Elitist and classist. It is common knowledge that the current prime minister, and most of the people around him, attended the same college and were members of this kind of clubs – maybe not that hardcore things happened, but the spirit was the same.
But I don’t need to go that far to find situations that make me feel like this. Just around me I can already find young colleagues that decide to spend their money getting wasted and destroying others properties just because they can. They might not be that classy or rich, but they still show that lack of respect for other’s effort, for public property, and they think that money can buy or fix just anything.
It makes me sad because I am a young student as well, and I love to go partying and have fun. But I also have this sense of respect towards my parents giving me this chance, and I feel I have to use this opportunity responsibly. I am also aware that I am a lucky person, because I did nothing special to deserve this freedom of studying out from my hometown or having a comfortable economical situation, and this precisely makes me work harder, be grateful and showing huuuuge respect for those ones who weren’t that lucky as I am and are still doing great.
This being said, it is a great movin that I totally recommend because precisely rises awareness against classisim.
It’s not related to Women’s day, it’s more like a personal identification and a real situation I am living myself.
As a child, I was lucky to have some really cool parents that at Christmas equally bought me pink dolls and blue parking lot games. I was a restless girl who liked more a football than a Barbie, and my dad enjoyed teaching me how to assemble the Excalectric. That was awesome.
However, when it was my time to choose my degree, I was encouraged to study so many things… but not engineering. I found so many «Ewwww, why?» reactions. Most people told me I would better be a doctor, biologist, lawyer or something like that. But I persisted and enrolled for an Engineer School. About the girls-boys ratio I found something funny. Although in general more boys apply for engineering schools, girls usually have better entry-marks, so if the School has a high entry-mark the ratio is quite good, around 60-40. That was quite nice, but I sadly saw after the first couple of years it goes down to 70-30 (more girls give up after the first failures).
I try not to overthink it, but during my whole career, since I first chose the technical subjects at high school, I have had the feeling that I am entering a men’s world. I like it, so I simply try to do my best and ignore the fact that I belong to that minority: I don’t like the victim role. But despite my efforts, sometimes reality it’s not nice. I have gone through situations where I am insinuated that I can’t achieve something because of being a female. I have applied for positions where the interview discarded me just after reading the name on the CV. I have been judged harsher on my performance than males are. This puts more pressure on female engineers while working. This discourages little girls to take this path. But hopefully, this is getting better, specially thanks to women that tear apart stereotypes and barriers with their courage, ambition and resilience.
Menos de dos semanas quedan para defender mi proyecto fin de carrera. Algo en lo que he estado trabajando durante los últimos 14 meses y que pone punto y final a cinco años de duro trabajo.
Preparar una presentación es mucho más complicado de lo que parece. Hoy en día cualquiera puede hacer una presentación, pero casi nadie sabe. Una presentación requiere una historia con un comienzo, un desarrollo y un final. Necesita un objetivo, que no hay que perder de vista en ningún momento. En mi caso ese objetivo es demostrar que he realizado brillantemente mi PFC, que no sólo he cumplido académica y profesionalmente sino que he ido más allá. Para ello, debo elegir el enfoque de la presentación más adecuado, ensalzando los resultados, enfatizando las perspectivas que quiero que sean percibidas. En una presentación no hay que contarlo todo, ni mostrarlo todo. Es más importante seleccionar el contenido y mantener una coherencia. Y sobre todo, si se elige usar un Power Point para hacer la presentación hay que empezar reduciendo al máximo el número de slides, las imprescindibles para contar tu historia, y desde ahí añadir las mínimamente necesarias para facilitar las transiciones visuales o profundizar en determinados aspectos. Creo que no hace ni falta mencionar que hay que huir de las diapositivas con exceso de información, así como de los efectos que no aportan al desarrollo de la historia. Ante la duda, con un Power Point, hay que apostar por el minimalismo, sin tener miedo a dejar espacios en blanco que desahoguen al receptor.
Con la teoría en una mano, y un tomo de 150 páginas que condensar en la otra, vamos a ver en qué acaba todo esto.
50% motivada por la escasez de créditos de libre, y 50% por las ganas de enseñar mi Escuela a los nuevos, este año decidí apuntarme al programa de Alumnos Mentores. Tras una entrevista, superé el proceso de selección y además me colocaron en el grupo de alumnos internacionales, lo cual supuso una motivación extra. Por una parte porque como ESTIEMr me encanta poder acercarme a los Erasmus que entran en mi universidad, y por otra porque en general suelen ser una minoría que no se integra demasiado con los alumnos de la universidad y ser su mentora es una oportunidad para conocerles.
La mentoría de Erasmus, es algo peculiar. Por una parte tienes que enseñarles la universidad, pero tampoco aburrirles con el mismo tiempo de consejitos que le darías a un alumno de primero. Les surgirán dudas no sólo relacionadas con la Escuela, sino también con la integración en Madrid, y además tendrás que suplir las lagunas informativas y administrativas de la universidad.
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