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Post 8: Holidays

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Being sincere I haven’t thought about my vacations yet. Right now I’m still finishing the semester and I have a lot of work to do. As I see it, my holiday season will not be so great, but I hope that some interesting invitation comes to me in the next weeks. In the other hand I have no doubt that I’m going to take advantage of time and I will compose music and take a lot of photos (also I have really exciting projects in my mind) Studying English and German is crucial for me, so those days are gonna be full of reading, listening, writing and hopefully speaking! There’s a lot of good websites to learn on your own and I agree that studying alone is not the best option but more knowledge is not going to hurt anyone. If I have the opportunity to travel or visit some place on holydays I would like it to be southern Chile or maybe Argentina, everyone says that is very beautiful and things are cheaper in comparison to Chile, that’s quite true, generally there is more variety than a huge chan...

Post 6: Postgraduate Course

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I'm currently on my fifth year of the music composition degree and things are going very well lately. I've always love experimental electronic music and sound desing, but for historical and cultural reasons my career doesn't provide students a complete program for this area of the musical knowledge. The mainly reason that I want to study a master degree in electroacoustics abroad is because there is not a lot going on the field here in Chile, so the only option for me is stay very well informed about the subject, or study somewhere else.  The majority of artists that want to expand their knowledge search for cities like Berlin, Paris, New York etc...For me Berlin sounds really cool but the main turn off is the language  (German is known for its difficulty) but I also like Vancouver very much. Regarding life and work everyone knows that it is not easy to work and study at the same time, but if I have the opportunity I will take it! Within the subjects that I want to...

Post 7: School Uniforms - Good or Bad?

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School Uniforms - Good or Bad? When I was in highschool all the students had to wear uniforms, it was extremely important for the institution that students kept a good looking appearance. On the other hand, for us (the students) that situation became really common because all the “emblematic” schools used distinctive uniforms, those that gave us unity and sense of belonging.  So with that in mind, imagine a situation where a group of students harasses a classmate for his clothes or how he looks, this automatically creates a problem for all the students that cant afford new or better clothes. Specialist say that school uniforms make schools safer for students, create a "level playing field" that reduces socioeconomic disparities, and encourage students to focus on their studies rather than their clothes.  Also the 21% of US public schools required students to wear uniforms during the 2015-2016. Besides that maybe school uniforms infringe upon students' right...