Self Evaluation of my academic year (2009)

Finishing the academic year there has come the time of realize a final balance, to evaluate my results, that of my class mates and that of the university in general. Makes this evaluation is very important, because it allows me to place myself in my university student context, and therefore to have a perspective of the state of my current situation to the interior of my career, and also of the evolution that I have had during its development.

To get this objective, I’m going to talk about the subject, the teachers and the experiences related with the academic life that I have had, and the experiences related with the university life in general.

To begin, I have had approximately ten subjects during this academic year, which not they all me have pleased, partly because some of them are dispersed about what the career treats itself, and also because not they all seem to me interesting. For example, “sociology of the culture”, which has an interesting name, but wasn’t approaching the topics adequately from my conception of culture, or “political sociology”, in which the teacher was very monotonous to do the classes. But also there have been subjects that have been called me the attention very much, because they are more concrete and because they come more closer to what I search in the sociology, as the theories II and IIIrd, which treat social topics as the inequality, or “techniques of qualitative investigation”, that allow to come closer the social reality of a most complete way, or " population and society ", that gives the tools to understand the demographic phenomena that they must be considered in public policies etc. For this reason, in spite of the fact that I have had subjects boring, there have been others that I have liked very much.

With regard to the scores, in spite of the fact that I don’t study very much, to my me enough good has gone in relation to the rest of my class mates, because I know to combine studies and leisure or parties. For this reason I could have shared very much with my friends, like for example sharing a beer or dancing in the "ashtray", what has allowed me to feel me full enough in my university life in general.

In conclusion, my academic life has been varied enough, but I feel that little by little I am come closer to the sociology as a profession, because every time I have subjects more concrete and interesting. But not for this reason I want that time pass quickly to be a sociologist as such, because the university not only implies an academic life, but also a university life, which it implies sharing with the friends and companions, and to enjoy the instances of entertainment, which also give experiences for the life.