Essay about my last academic year

In this paragraphs I’m going to talk about my last academic year before my degree. In few words, this year has been very exhausting and stressful, the time ever runs very fast, and seem to always I have a lot of work to do. I think that this year has been so hard beacuase I have had to take eigth subjects in this term and nine in the first term for obtain my degree this year. This situation is the same for all my classmates beacuase we have the misfortune of being harmed for a restructuring proces in the career.

Me and all my classmates are so tired because we are a “transition generation”, then we arrive to the carrer in a middle of a restructuring proces in the Anthropology Department. This process was so slow and disorganized. For this reason we had to take the two last years a lot of subjects that we should take them in the first years of the career. Many of us had eigth or nine subjects, even ten or eleven in the most extreme cases.

In my case I have eight subjects, but I appreciate only three or four because are useful for my porfession. The rest of the subjects I take it only for “fill” the necesary formalities for obtain my degree. Sincerely, I hate some of those because are subjects that do not deliver me anything, and just waste the short time I have. I have a lot of things to do, and only a few interest me really, thus my dear career becomes in a bored and terrible thing.

But the three subjects that interest me are worth. These give to me relevant information about my social reality and the tool for analyze it. If all my subjects would be usefull or interesting my academic year would be more amused and not so boring.

Finally, I can say that this year has been the worst, the most complicated and the most bored of all. I hope anxiously the end of the year for have more time to travel, being with my girlfriend, fun with my friends and sleep. The eigth subjects, and especially the useless, smother me.

CHALLENGES IN YOUR DISCIPLINE

The most important challenge for the Social Anthropology is to be involved more in the relevants problems of our country. In a recent past, this discipline studied some aspects of our society, like the native people, the urban tribes, symbolic and aesthetics problems, and a lot of problems that mostly are irrelevant. I don't say that the study object are irrelevant, if not that the questions, the research problems are mostly unimportant for the people. For this, our discipline is so unknow for anybody, because it produce a lot of useless information.

Thus, the first challenge for the Social anthropology is involved more in the social matters. In the last time this situation has been changed, increasingly the anthropologist study important social matters like the human development, the social stratification and the social inequality, the social class, the urban segregation, the rural develpment, the ethnic conflict, for example. The cultural variable is an important factor that explain a lot of problems, and the anthropology have the tools for investigate this aspect of our society.

In relation of the methodological tools of the Anthropology, arise the need of incorporate new technology for increase our understanding of our reality. The use of new software improve the cualitative and cuantitative methods, because this allow manage a lot of data. Software like SPSS, Atlas-Ti, ArcView, and other programs allow make and organize big databases. Of course, the mighty Internet enhace any scientific discipline.

Finally, and maybe the most big debt of our discipline is about the education. The difussion of the knowledge inside our society is very deficient, Anthropology has been produce a lot of information that the ordinary people have never heard in their life.

The way for solve this challenges need to be discussed by the academic community, but the most important is that we the anthropologyst focus our daily effort for build a best society contributing with the knowledge about our own culture.