Catalina Lorca Astudillo

Hello everyone! As I told you in my last blogs, I´m studying public administration. If you don't know about the career, I´ll tell you about it. In fact, today I'm going to talk about the curriculum, the workload and length of studies, the teaching methods, among others. Firstly, the subjects we have to study are very varied. We study subjects such as law, maths, Chilean history or financial and people management. Public administration is a very interdisciplinary career because to face public problems you have to know the various aspects that they may have. Secondly, the duration of the mayor is about 5 years (if you don´t fail your subjects). In these 5 years public administration students are studying the “management” at a theoretical level and are also analyzing how this management is in the country. Third, teaching methods are application of theoretical concepts to everyday situations. To do that, we do group work because it allows you to collect the different perspectives o...

Hello! To what time in the future would I like to travel? It´s a difficult question because I don´t like to think about the future. Actually, I prefer to face situations day by day. If I had to choose a time to travel in the future when I was a child, I would have chosen the day of my death. At that time, I would have liked to see the moment of my death because I wanted to be prepared for it. Then, I saw a movie called “Bedtime Stories” and the desire of travel to that moment disappeared! Because it happened to the main character and that only made the situation worse. At this moment I wouldn't like to travel to the future because it can influence the decisions I will make. For example, I imagine that there will be a voice in my mind telling me "Catalina don't do this because you already saw what is going to happen". Unfortunately, this thought would only make me anxious and not enjoy the present.  I think as we have signs that the future isn´t promising due to lack o...

Hello! Today I'm going to talk about my future job. It should be noted that my future job is related to my mayor: public administration. To begin with, when I decided to study my mayor I always thought that I would do field work in public institutions. By field work I mean relating myself to citizenship in state organizations. If I can't do field work it would be disappointing because I don't expect to spend the rest of my working life in an office. I know I'll have to do office work, but I´d like to work outdoor. I think leaving the office will help me not to separate myself from the reality that citizenship live. Secondly, I believe that in order not to separate myself from the everyday life of citizens, I can´t travel a lot in my work. I´d like to do it, but only exceptionally to contrast realities and return to my work with new ideas. To sump up, I believe in my career it´s very important to interact with people on a day-to-day basis because to make good public poli...