Héctor Vargas

Hi everyone! This is our last blog session, so I want to take this opportunity to say goodbye. It has been a pleasure to read your posts and comments. The career of Chemistry and Pharmaceuticals in this university has had many changes, principally with study program changes. Like all change, there are modifications that mean important advances in the professional development of the students, while another changes, I think, are a setback. One of the things I didn’t like about study program changes is the omission of teacher Hernan Vergara’s subjects.   Teacher Vergara’s subjects (who’s actually retired), promoted the basic knowledge of our profession in the first career years. Matters as concepts of medicines, their classification and effects, therapies and related laws are basic knowledge that all students must to know. And, of course, I think all the students must to know about the History of Pharmacy, with the most important landmarks. Among the good study progr...

I think tattoos (mostly) are beautiful expressions of art that complement people and their identity. I think getting a tattoo is a very serious issue because, although they are not "forever" as before and the tattooing techniques have advanced enough that it is not an immediate risk to health, tattooing involves serious skin damage. Obviously, removing a tattoo implies even more serious damage. For these reasons, it is good to think about what to tattoo and why, before doing it. In my particular case, I could not get a tattoo. Sometimes I have thought about it; however, it is very likely that if I do I will end up repentant. There is no concept, figure or other that represents me enough to want to wear it on my skin with pride for the rest of my life. *** Usually, legalization of the called "hard drugs" is the initial step in states which really wants to have control over drug trafficking. To include them in the legislation does not imply their autho...

When I graduated from high school, I started to study Electrical Civil Engineering. As I had previously studied Telecommunications in a technical school, my first option was to study Engineering, in spite of not knowing the labor field. Being in that career I realized that it was not what I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. In spite of loving the study of mathematics and finding fascinating the courses I could study, the possibilities of work I would have once my studies were completed were not to my liking. After much thought, especially considering the time I would lose, I decided to leave Electrical Engineering career and think better about what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. After some time, I realized that actually the dream of my life always was to be a scientist. I had always loved chemistry, despite never having had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge in this area. And, as one of my life goals was to help improve the living conditions of people...