Your blogging experience

To be honest, when I knew that I have to write a blog for the English class I thought: “Ugh, such a boring job, what I would write about?” I think that was my opinion because first, I didn't know how it worked, then I didn't like the idea of talk about myself in a public place, and finally, my ideas aren’t always in order. So that hadn’t me very excited.

But then, when we started to write about more and more subjects, I realized that it was a very funny job! We wrote about ourselves, the career that we chose and the music in our lives. And I think that my favorite one was the blog when we wrote about the photograph that we like.

Write every Friday on the blog let me knew new things about myself, what I do really like and what I don't. I learnt how to explain my ideas by writing, like put them in order, because that always (always) was very difficult for me. I remember that I suffered a lot when in high school I had to write an essay about a theme that was important and contingent to me haha.

Now I think it helped me to have better skills to write (in English), put my ideas in order, and talk about myself.

From the invisible to the visible world and back...

In Pharmacy, you learn how the disease works and how you prevent or attack it through a drug. That drugs came into a pharmaceutical form (for example: pills or syrup). 

But recently I learnt about pharmacogenomics. This is the name of a new technique that study how the gens of a person respond to the medication, and the variability that it has. I found interesting how you can mix pharmacy and gens stuff with the purpose of find better results for people whom doesn't respond to the treatment.

It look for create new medication adapted for each person, based on the behavior of its gens and the hereditary characteristics. In that way you know exactly which medicament and in which dose use. In order to maximize the safety (make sure it has the minimum adverse effects) and efficacy of the treatment.

Besides, it is still on the phase of clinical trials, so by now people can not access to rial treatment. I think in twenty years we all could use it successfully.

The most enjoyable subject...

The subject that I like the most is chemistry! Because is easy to learn and the exercises keep me entertain. 

The classes are mostly theoretical. It may be not so amusing, but I understand that it is in that way because first we have to learn all about basic chemistry before we start to learn chemistry related to pharmacy. I think the most important contents that are we seeing in class is energy, chemical bond, stoichiometry and dissolution. I like the last two ones because we always have to find some lost datum and use (easy) maths!  

Also apply basic knowledge in lab, so this make it not-so-theoretical, for example calculate concentrations (calculate everything is based on the basic chemistry that are we learning) or make dissolutions.

I knew on high school that I wanted to study in university something related to chemistry. I wanted a career that had too much chemistry and also work with health of people. After searching a looot of information I finally chose pharmacy.

I also like to teach chemistry to girls from my school, I don't want them get disappointed about this subject just because of the teacher or they don't understand.

Maybe I dedicate my life to chemistry :) maybe not, but I know that in that moment I like it so much and it will be the same for a long time, and to me that is the most important thing.

Person/Expert you admire

Marie Curie.

Marie Curie

This is the name of the scientist that I admire the most, because she was such a strong woman. She faced with all the obstacles that being a woman in that time could cause, like have a bad status just for want to learn more. Besides the problems that her country has on that time (Poland was invaded from Russia).

She born in Poland, on 1867. Her mother died when she was eleven years old and her father was a physics teacher. When she was 24 years old, she lived in Paris, working hard on her scientific career, while she was there, her sister helped her with money because the savings that she had doesn't was enough. She was very interested in new types of radiation that Roentgen and Becquerel found before. 

In 1895 she married with Pierre Curie. He left her investigations in order to support Marie and started working together. This leads in finding the elements polonium and radium, that's why they won them first Nobel Prize. She was the first woman receive a Physics Nobel Prize, the first person having two of them and the first mother Nobel who has a daughter Nobel.

Marie was very intelligent and persistent along her life, and nothing let her down.