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Hello everyone! This year I’m coursing the third semester of my career, chemistry and pharmacy. This semester has been so difficult for me, because obviously, the degree of difficulty is increasing semester to semester. I think that 2018 has gone by very fast, practically in just four months the year will finished! Incredible. This year I confirmed that chemistry and pharmacy is the career that I love. Sometimes, I miss my friends and family when I’m stay in Santiago for the university (I’m from the sixth region), but now I´m so happy because I will be able to meet with my friends and family. Cellular physiology has been a so difficult topic for me, but I managed to pass that course. My achievements this year? I don’t know if I made great achievements this year, but I think learning so many interesting things this semester was an achievement for me. I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to study this wonderful career, also I’m so grateful to had been met new friends in the universi...

Post nine Hi everyone! Choose a topic to talk about was not easy, but after I was thinking a lot , finally I decided to talk about organic chemistry, because it’s a very interesting topic for me, practically all the themes about chemistry are so interesting for me.  Organic Chemistry is the study of the composition, structure, properties, reactions and preparation of carbon-containing substances, and this so important, for example, in the pharmaceutical industry for the fabrication of medicines, in the industry of aliments, cosmetics, etc.  The term “Organic Chemistry” was introduced for first time by Jöns Jacob Berzelius (Swede chemist) in 1807 to refer to the study of natural resources, and in his time the people thought that the compounds associated with live had a “vital force”, and they say that the “vital force” made the difference of the inorganic compounds. Nowadays we know that the “vital force” doesn’t exist, the fundamental characteristic of organic compo...

My favorite subject this semester has been Organic Chemistry I, because in classes I’ve learned very interesting things about organic compounds, and it’s a very important subject in the career. In classes of organic chemistry, I usually ask about the content of the subject because I like to learn about it. So many people say that organic chemistry is so difficult because you need to memorize so many reactions and related things, and I think the same, however is so grateful for me learn organic chemistry. } This semester in organic chemistry I we have seen so many reactions for the synthesis of Alkanes and alkenes and about the stability and characteristics of organic compounds, also this semester I have the subject of Organic chemistry laboratory, and we apply some contents that we learn in classes of organic chemistry, but I consider that the work in the lab is more difficult. I like this subject because is so important for the synthesis of medicaments in the pharmaceutical industry,...

Paracelso, a pioneer for his time Hello everyone! It was not easy to choose a topic to talk about, but finally I decided to talk about Paracelso, a very famous character in the field of chemistry and pharmacy, because he was a pioneer for his time. He was born in Switzerland in 1493, and was an alchemist, doctor and astrologer, and he is known how the father of chemistry and pharmacy. When Paracelso was alive, he was a pioneer in the field of the homeopathy, a practice that says that a substance that in high concentration in our organism can be so dangerous, and that the same substance in low concentration can be used to treat a pathologuies. The homeopathy nowadays is a very big field in chemistry and pharmacy, although so many people say that homeopathy is not a safe method for the cure of diseases.  Although Paracelso was a pioneer, he did some bad things, like to treat the people with syphilis with mercury; and they died for intoxication finally; I don’t admire Parace...