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Hello everyone, finally it's time to write the last blog of the semester. Well, the experience of writing these blogs was a little different than what I'm used to. I think I started by hating them a little bit, but as the semester progressed, writing about the proposed topics was easier and I liked it. I guess the latter is because I started to improve my writing skills. I think my vocabulary also improved a bit. The proposed topics seemed good to me in general, some were a little harder to write than others, but it is not that they were a torture. Particularly the topics that I liked the most were “Favourite movie”, “Career-related website” and “Favourite picture”. In the future it would seem good to me that there was a correction of the writings week by week during the semester. In this way one could correct their mistakes and not commit them again in the next blog. I also think it's a good idea to allow that one or two blogs have a free choice topic. ...

Hello everyone, today I will write about a movie that I enjoy a lot, it is not my favorite, but it is an excellent cinematographic piece that I think not many know (but m aybe some of you know that a whole chapter of "The Simpsons" is a wink to this movie) . I speak of "Run Lola run", German movie of the year 1998 written and directed by Tom Tykwer. The movie starts with Lola, who receives a desperate phone call from her boyfriend Manni, a criminal who has collected 100,000 deutsche mark in cash from his most recent crime. Lola had agreed to meet Manni and drive him to deliver the money to his boss, Ronnie. However, when Lola fails to arrive on time, Manni loses the bag with the cash in the subway. Manni tells her that unless he raises 100,000 mark to give Ronnie in the next 20 minutes, Ronnie will kill him. Lola implores Manni not to do anything stupid and to wait while she gets the money somehow. The rest of the film is divided into three runs by Lola. ...

Hi, everyone, the truth is that it is difficult for me to talk about a subject I enjoy this semester, because I am repeating a couple of subjects and the rest still belongs to the basic career plan. But I think that the elective subject bibliographic seminar is quite interesting. Bibliographic seminar is a subject in which you must develop a research project and present this research at the end of the semester with a written report and an oral presentation. Initially, a teacher presents a general topic and you develop an investigation of something related to the topic. My topic for this semester are cytokines and their role in immune processes, and my research is about biological inhibitors of TNF-α as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. What I like about this subject is that I have enough time to do the research and I can manage it as I want (it is quite flexible). Also, I can research about something that I really like and learn a lot. I just have to attend a meeting a...

Hi everyone, today I would write about a website related to my career… well, related with any scientific career I guess. Because if there is something that all biochemists and related careers hate, it is paying to read a paper. SCI-HUB...to remove all barriers in the way of science. SCI-HUB is a website with millions of academic papers and articles available for direct and free download. The amazing thing here is that this website bypasses the publisher paywalls  allowing the access for anyone. This project was founded by Kazakhstani graduate student Alexandra Elbakyan in 2011,  as a reaction to the high cost of research papers . I remember that a couple of years ago different academic publishers filed a legal complaint and a lawsuit against SCI-HUB by copyright infringement, and the website died for a while. But keep calm because it just change the web domain and works like always. I use this website very often, about three times a week when I have ...

Hello again, today I will tell you about my last trip. I do not think it was one of the most memorable trips, but I'm too lazy to write about another trip. So, this not so memorable trip was at the beginning of June this year, when five friends of the university and I planned a quiet week of winter holidays in El Yeco, Algarrobo. During the first days it was mostly sunny, so we went to the beach and stayed as long as possible because we knew rainy days would come. It was just as we planned, we were absolutely alone, the whole beach just for us and it was really relaxing to disconnect from all the hustle and bustle of Santiago. The following days we enjoyed touring the pine forests and spent time relaxing in the small cabin where we were staying, cooking delicious food (really), listening to music, drinking a good wine and smoking some weed.  The best thing of all was that we got to know each other better between friends and we also had time to clear our minds. ...

Hello everyone, today I will show you one of my favorite photos. I warn you that it is not of the best quality, but at least it has some special meaning because I took it on my last trip. This photo was taken in February of last year and it shows ancient ruins of Isla del Sol, Bolivia. This island and others more located in the Titicaca lake allow to have an incredible view of the nature and also allow to size the immensity of the lake (it is like being in the middle of the sea). It is inside my favorite photos because of the memories it brings me from the trip. On this Island, I particularly met many people of different nationalities, with cultures and realities very different from mine. Thus the group gradually enlarged on this trip, continuing the route through other impressive places in Bolivia and Peru. Currently many of these travel companions are friends and we keep in touch by whatsapp and instagram.

I'm not one of those people who spend all day listening to music. However, I listen to all kinds of musical genres such as rock, reggaeton, pop, reggae, classical, EDM, etc. It is a little difficult to choose a favorite musical genre, but I think it would be EDM (Electronic Dance Music). I started listening to this music when I was about 15 years old. I like it for its synthetic and organic sounds with repetitive rhythms, and depending on the style or subgenre, I listen to study, sleep, smoke weed or even to have sex. EDM has multiple subgenres, including house, trap, techno, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, etc. When I listen to this music I do not really care much about the DJ ... I guess I do not have a favorite "musician". But I'll attach a video of some song that I've listened recently on Spotify.