A few days before the end of the first cycle of Comunica Investiga Lab, during an advisory session, one of the participants told us with all sincerity that while doing her research she discovered what she wants to do as a communicator. Listening to her words made us feel that it was worth all the effort we made up to this point to fulfill our greatest desire: to build […]
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Dear Blog: Today Thursday, March 16, I sit in front of the laptop not knowing what to write. I have never been a very meticulous person as to what I want to say, I have always preferred a certain spontaneity, creativity and above all feeling to completely cover the blank page. A few weeks after finishing with the lab, I have realized many things, one of them is that […]
A few weeks ago a college classmate asked me, “What are you passionate about?” I remained silent. I had never asked myself that question before – what are you most excited about? I saw fleeting scenes of me doing various artistic and sporting activities when I was a minor. I thought about answering that, but a new question clouded my mind: what am I passionate about now? “I love […]
During my first years at university I never thought of it as a space for research. Occasionally I would read or hear about conferences, lectures, congresses, and a series of events that for me were very distant and unattractive. I was going to the Communications major to do something, not to stay behind a desk reading books. I had assumed that a career in Development Communication was mainly about […]
Like many students in the last years of high school, I was not quite sure what to study back then. I was doing well in all courses, whether science or literature, and it was probably due to the influence of some people close to me (my math and biology teachers, my father an engineer and my older brother a doctor) that I decided to opt for science and ended […]
I have to confess that before entering university I thought that Academic Research was the most boring thing in the world. I imagined scientists or older professors surrounded by books on “serious” subjects, such as philosophy or history, who knew everything and were only trying to reinforce their theories. I didn’t see anyone like me, a female student, young, inexperienced and interested in subjects considered trivial such as series, […]
A few days before the end of the first cycle of Comunica Investiga Lab, during an advisory session, one of the participants told us with all sincerity that while doing her research she discovered what she wants to do as a communicator. Listening to her words made us feel that it was worth all the effort we made up to this point to fulfill our greatest desire: to build […]
Dear Blog: Today Thursday, March 16, I sit in front of the laptop not knowing what to write. I have never been a very meticulous person as to what I want to say, I have always preferred a certain spontaneity, creativity and above all feeling to completely cover the blank page. A few weeks after finishing with the lab, I have realized many things, one of them is that […]
A few weeks ago a college classmate asked me, “What are you passionate about?” I remained silent. I had never asked myself that question before – what are you most excited about? I saw fleeting scenes of me doing various artistic and sporting activities when I was a minor. I thought about answering that, but a new question clouded my mind: what am I passionate about now? “I love […]
During my first years at university I never thought of it as a space for research. Occasionally I would read or hear about conferences, lectures, congresses, and a series of events that for me were very distant and unattractive. I was going to the Communications major to do something, not to stay behind a desk reading books. I had assumed that a career in Development Communication was mainly about […]
Like many students in the last years of high school, I was not quite sure what to study back then. I was doing well in all courses, whether science or literature, and it was probably due to the influence of some people close to me (my math and biology teachers, my father an engineer and my older brother a doctor) that I decided to opt for science and ended […]
I have to confess that before entering university I thought that Academic Research was the most boring thing in the world. I imagined scientists or older professors surrounded by books on “serious” subjects, such as philosophy or history, who knew everything and were only trying to reinforce their theories. I didn’t see anyone like me, a female student, young, inexperienced and interested in subjects considered trivial such as series, […]