viernes, 23 de junio de 2017

My blogging Experience

In my opinion writing the blogs for me was really fun, because I could talk about different things that I like and also I knew people with my same preferences. The bad thing, was when we had to write about some topics that I don't like and I didn't know what to write, for example in the post six, even we had two options to choose, but I didn't like any option, I think that that post was the most difficult for me.
One idea that I feel it will be really interesting could be write one post an free topic. Why these can be fun? Because it will be a way to express ourselves, and share with our classmates something important for us, or something that really really fascinates me, or maybe whatever that we are thinking in the moment.    
To finish, also I like to say that even when the experience of writing the blogs for me it was fun, sometimes it was a little difficult for me, because we had to write in another language, and it's not easy to express our ideas in another language. Besides, personally talking or writing in English is not "my thing" I really prefer the Spanish. But in general, the complete experience it was very useful to me, because I could progress my way to write in English.  

viernes, 2 de junio de 2017

A Subject you enjoy studying this semester


Hello, today I will talk about my favourite subject this semester, it's  Organic Chemistry Laboratory and it's a practical class. In this subject we work synthesizing organic compounds using different chemical techniques for example, distilling, straining, recrystallizing, among others. After we get the new chemical compound we have to measure the quantity that we get, calculate its experimental melting point and the real percent of the reaction. We use all this information to complete the reports of the class.
The main contents that I've seen in this subject are organic chemistry, like alkanes. Alkenes and alkins. This subject is my favourite because I love working in laboratory, it seems to me very interesting to synthesize compounds and make chemical techniques. So far my favourite class was when we synthesizet acetylsalicylic acid because it was the first drug that we got.
 I chose this subject because the schedule was very comfortable for me, besides I haven't met any teachers of this subject, all of them were new for me.
The only thing that I would change to this subject is the semester in which we have to take it, because in this semester we also have Organic Chemistry that is the theoretical subject and the base for Organic Chemistry Laboratory and it's a bad idea to  have these two subjects in the same semester because in the first class of laboratory we don't know what to do because we don't know the theory.  

A career-related website that I visit

Well, I will show you a website that is very useful to me and also can be very useful for everyone (especially if you study something related with science), is named PubChem, the link is here https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. This website is a specialized database in the area of chemistry, in this page we can found around 90.000.000 chemical compounds with his chemical form, molar mass, density, etc. In general, it shows us all the physical and chemical characteristics of chemical compounds. This website I started to use only this year, because I needed a page that I had information about chemical compounds for my reports of Organic Chemistry Laboratory, in all my reports I need the chemical form of the compound, the melting point, boiling point, density and molar mass, and all this information I can found in one page, for this is a like so much this website because is awesome and makes my homework easier. I check this page at least one time for week and I hope that can be useful for somebody.