Post Graduate studies

Biochemistry is the branch of science that explores the chemical processes within the living organism. By using chemical knowledge and techniques, biochemists can understand and solve biological problems. Biochemistry covers a range of scientific disciplines, including genetics, microbiology, forensics, plant science and medicine.

It is common for biochemists to continue their higher education if they are intending to develop a career in the biosciences, something that I want to do eventually. Biochemists can specialize on several science fields and work in many places, therefore there are many post graduate courses that cover all of them.

I would like to take a postgraduate course related with biochemistry, genetics, microbiology or molecular biotechnology and If the conditions are given I would study abroad. 

A degree in biochemistry will definitely include laboratory sessions where I will be exposed to the fundamental and latest techniques, and tools used in biochemistry, something that really interests me.

Strong chemistry knowledge is highly beneficial, also a biochemistry degree in some institutions may include courses on microbiology, immunology, clinical biochemistry, management, applied statistics and computer skills.

My future job

I don't know exactly what job I would like to do, hopefully something related to my college career, of course, biochemistry. Nonetheless I have an idea about the study field I would like to work on. Genomic Medicine or Microbial and Environmental Genomics. Long time ago I read a scientist's biography, Craig Venter, a biochemistry, he is the owner of J.Craig Venter Institute. In the book he described a curious and smart way to work on Environmental Genomics, basically one of his assignment is to gather genomes and genes from microorganism in the ocean to be isolated in the lab and make synthetic bacterias with those genes. Those genes could be helpfull for example to motabolize carbon dioxide to organic fuel and reduce the concentration of this compound in the atmosphere. 

In things like that I would like to work, discovering new ways to contribute on the environmental fields or new ways to find cures on Genomic Medicine. 

To work on this things I have to study a major, for example a PhD in biochemistry to be capable and competent on the genomics discipline.

So that's it, basically the kind of job I would like to do in the future is one that allow me to travel a lot and it could be indoors or outdoors.

About music

I've always listened music, most of the artist that I used to listen was the one's that my brother and my mom showed me. Artists I still listen to,  Ska-p, Sui Generis, Phil Collins, Eduardo Peralta, Silvio Rodriguez, Los Prisioneros, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Eduardo Gatti, Queen and many others.

I feel that I listen different kind of music during seasons for example, for a time I listened Cat Stevens almost every day and listened his whole discography, actually Cat stevens marked one special summer to me. I also have a heavy music taste along with my soft music taste. Artists like Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Angra, Black Sabbath, Judas priest and many others are part of my set of heavy music.

I play acoustic and electric guitar due to my brother influence, he is a musician and also plays the drums.

Not long ago I had a Radiohead and Atoms For Peace season, two bands that are related because of Thom Yorke, one of the artists I like the most. I've been listen to Cristobal Briceño lately and his band related with, Ases Falsos.

I'd like to remark about Cat Stevens. His music is like fresh air and got a message of peace inside his composition, its hard to have a favourite Cat stevens song because I like most of his discography. The remarkable albums I could do a mention of, are Matthew and Son, Mona Bone Jakon, Tea for the Tillerman, Teaser and the Firecat, and Foreigner. 

Endorphins makes you happy

Most of us are aware of what happens to the body when we exercise. We build more muscle or more stamina. We fell how daily exercise activities become easier if we preactice regularly.
But how exercise activities could make you happy?
We commonly hear the line "endorphins are released" and we conform with that explanation without really knowing what it means. Here is what actually happens:
If you start exercising, your brain recognizes that as a moment of stress. The brain triggers the fight or flight responde to protect yourself from stress. you release a protein called BDNF (Brian-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). This BDNF has a protective and also reparative element to your memory neurons and acts as a reset switch. That's why we often feel so at ease and things are clear after exercising.

At the same time, endorphine, another chemical to fight stress is released in your brain. The endorphins main purpose is this writes researcher Mcgovern:

"The endorphins tend to minimize the discomfort of exercise, block the feeling of pain and are even associated with a feeling of euphoria."

So BDNF and endorphins are the reasons exercise make us feel good and eventually happy!

Holidays

There are many holidays I went, all of them in my country except one holiday that I'm going to talk about now. It was the summer of February 2014 when my mom decide to spend her salary on mother-sons holidays to New York city for two weeks. All of the sudden me and my brothers were packing our things for winter holidays on NY, and discuss about the clothes we should pack considering the frost weather that NY has.
I remember that we had a lot of expectations, most of them because of the movies and our anxiety to go to a unknown place with an unfamiliar language. Plus we had never visiting other countries for holidays, so our mood became very enthusiastic and expectant back then.

although we spent two weeks in NY, our holiday was very rewarding. We achieve to visit the entire "must-visit" list which consist basically on go to places like Central park, Liberty statue, Empire state, etc.
I had a lot of fun visiting the street of NY

A country I would like to visit...

Greenland is a country I would like to visit, there is a town called Qeqertarsuaq which is very attractive. Qeqertarsuaq is located on the south coast of Disko island on the west coast of Greenland, founded on 1773.

Among the many attractions it has, see the sun shining over the glaciers on midnight, sailing between whales, contemplate aurora borealis, travel on the tundra with dog sledding.

You also see icebergs of the size of the Empire State!

What about the gastronomy there?

Well, since Greenland is an arctic island with little agriculture and no land transport, so there, the food is local or not! You can image how the dishes are, something like the image below

There are some curious facts about this place like:

-Exist a probability that the iceberg which make the Titanic sink came from this place

-The first brewery here invented the Ice beer, with water from the icebergs

So, visiting this country and this little town would be very fun!

My blogging experience

At the beginning, when we started writing on blogspot, I did not like it, I suppose because I wasn't used to it and never tried it before. Now I think I've changed my mind, while writing my blogs I realized that I was enjoying it, of course like I said not in my very first blog but after that I started to feel that it is fun. Blogging is a good way to express yourself and know more about other people.

What about my writing skills? Well I always been a person who can understand english better than talk or write it, because I have read more english than talk or write it. So doing blogs keeps the balance between read and writing skills. Actually I think that my writing skills has been improved because I have to constantly look for new words or translate the ones I know in spanish. Even though I have to use the translator constantly I made a considerable progress.

I would like to include some kind of "book club" where we write our own histories like a novel, it must be assessed by the teacher of course and then we could tell the tales in front of our classmates. I think it would be fun and enriching. Maybe it could be done on the blogspot platform.

I would like to write more about scientific stuff, it is fun to me and gives feedback about the career itself