My beloved faculty

I'm in the faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, and it's located in the Juan Gómez Millas Campus. I'm in the Ahthropology degree, and we share the faculty with sociology, psicology and education. In infraestructure we are a little bit disadventaged, specially because it's cold in the winter, and because our bathrooms are too smalls and there're not enough for all the people. The rooms are too small for all of us, and the biggest problem is that the library have just a few books, so there are not enough books for all the students. On the other hand, it is too small and everybody talks, so you can't study in peace. But after all I like it.

In other aspects I think there are more important troubles to resolve, like the order and continuity of the courses or curricular program. There are many subjects that aren't enough, there are very poor in content and sometimes they are not useful; for example, there are subjects that there're not necessary, or some of them are really important but we don't have them, or we have them but there are not good enough. The other thing is that there are participation problems (in some ocasions), because nobody votes to choose the people of the FECH or the CECSo, or nobody comes to the assemblies or meetings; but I think that this is the result of politycal positions. This last think is something that depends more of the persons, and sometimes I share their position, or I understand it. So it doesn't depend of the faculty or the other students.

Actually the curricular program problems are been resolved by the students and some professors of every career. But there are many things to do in this way.

The only way to resolve both problems, like infrastructural and academic,is to get more financing from the University, because nobody cares about our faculty, because we are social sciences; we are devalue. And this take us to a bigger problem that lies in the fact that the State doesn't finance the public Universities. The other solutions are related with the us, with the students, because we are the ones that have classes in here, so we have the right and the duty to demand improvements in this place.
The first steps are in our hands.

regards,
Penny