The end of Journalism?

Well… in this occasion I will like to talk about study programs that impart the Universidad of Chile for the career of Journalism, but about my own experience. I didn’t like very much the subjects, not even when I finished the school (a couple of years ago haha) and I saw the diagram curriculum in the page of the institute. Really I’ never like the idea of studying a career as such, but my parents says that I have to prepare to the future… always the future.

Anyway, when I decided for Journalism, I did because I thought: “Ok… this is a humanist career, I can practice my skills of writing and reading and I can do a lot of things when I finish!” I was more optimistic in that time… what a silly. So, when I entered I found something completely new for me. “This is not the Language/History class that I have at school”, I said to me. It’s very difficult for a student who enters at once he left the school to a world completely different, to the teachers, the subjects and the classmates. The university is not for all, because it’s a kind of constant hunt, especially when you are not level with yours partners, so you felt sad and dumb.  

The courses that the institute imparts for those years (2013) in the first semester, was horrible. I really don’t understand nothing and I thought that I write very well, but no. Even, we have a lot of things to read, expositions, and news to create in only three subjects. I was saying stop please, this is killing me uff!

But, not all is lost. When you are going past the levels, you can notice that the sacrifice worth it. Not all the subjects have to like it or you have to be the best around. The most important thing is that you can learn and this is the ICEI teach you, because in many times the instruments, like cameras, sound reeds, development rooms, etc, doesn’t work and you can lie to die or get a lesson for that. I choose the second and my life goes well… not perfect, but well.

Unfortunately the curriculum changed the last year, so the Institute takes off some theorist’s subjects. Now the society will have less intellectual’s journalist, but more preparing for the new technologies that actually are the technologies of today. I still have not gotten over this decision; I only hope that the Journalism doesn’t collapse…