Herbarium

Hi everyone! The topic of today is '' my experience making the herbarium ''. First of all, I can say it was the most stressful activity of the year. In part, it was the fact of looking for the native species, but it was the worst the fact of knowing that we have a limit of time to do it.

Sometimes I went out with friends to climb hills, or practice activities, but in another chance I went alone to Cerro San Cristobal, and that was the day when I collected almost the half of my herbarium. It was great that day because it was raining but softly, and I could spend a day with myself. It was great

It took me about 6 months looking for species and drying them, some get bad and I had to look for some new. In my case, I have to say I never knew what it was on my hands (I mean the specie) 'till I started to put them on files, and write the name of the sample; but not until that day, I just knew that I had a bunch of leafs drying.

The night I had to spend like 5 hours sewing 30 samples to paperboards, writing on a file the scientific name, the common name, the day and the place where I found it, and the coordinates, but I can say it was the night when I learned a lot I started to remember names, characteristics and knowing how to recognize them.

What can I say? It was great after all the stress

Bye!

Postgrade

Good evenning everyone, again, well now we still talking about studies, but todays theme is about something that can happen in, maybe, 4, 5 years, depending on the person, of course.

If I have to chose a postgrade after getting the license of Forestry engineer, I think the course for me will be a Magister of Wilderness and Nature Conservation. The main reason is the same one when I postulated to Forestry, because I want to work on conservation and take care of nature. I would like to have subject about species on different parts of the world, like ‘’biotics’’, a first year subject of forestry, but I would like it to be more intense. Also, subjects of conservations plans for species in danger. In synthesis, courses to be a better forestry engineer :D.

I don’t actually know how long take to work on a Magister, but I think two years (?), it is a reasonable time, I guess…

I would prefer it to be a part-time course, so I can work on other things to pay it.

It has been a dream for me, studing maybe a year out of Chile, possibly a country with english language, so I would work also on my english.

So that’s it, I hope this works in a few years, I would feel like a complete student. :D

Bye!