 This semester it’s been a hard one, but to be honest I have had worst. It stared out good with good grades and everything, “rehabilitacion vocacional” started to give me my monthly checks, so money was not that tight. But at the middle of the semester I started to fall behind on classes. I started to get depressed again, it always happens because of the stress. Classes start getting harder and teacher start giving more work. Because I was depressed I started to fall behind and fail some classes, and I had to drop out of a class. Even though I dropped out of a class I was still struggling with my other three classes, especially with math. At the beginning, in the first test I got a good grade, but in the second and third test it went down the drain, I wasn’t studying hard enough, I guess and also I didn’t know how to manage my time with the three classes. Also my 90 year old grandmother she fell and broke her hip, not long ago, and that got me more stressed.
I really like this class in particular, because I like writing but always have trouble with creativity and imagination. And also I like the fact that I got to do a website and got feedback from my peers. I have to admit I took a class similar to this one and the professor was a really good one but Zen was really great. Overall I really liked the class I think it helped me with my writing and I learned a lot while in this class.
Even though it was a hard and stressful semester, for me, it wasn’t all bad, at least in my social life. I made good friends and I had really good class mates, and I got myself a boyfriend. But I know academically I could have done better. I should have done better. I anticipate I will pass my classes seeing that this is my last semester in the UPRRP. No, I’m not graduating, bur next semester I will be attending another college close to my hometown studying veterinarian technician. Hopefully everything will all go well next semester. I will surely miss the iupi.
Personality type results EI: 12 out of 17
Extrovert |-------------------------------------------------| Introvert
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70%
SN: 8 out of 17
Sensation |-------------------------------------------------| iNtuition
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47%
TF: 7 out of 17
Thinking |-------------------------------------------------| Feeling
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41%
JP: 9 out of 17
Judging |-------------------------------------------------| Perceiving
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52%
Your Personality type is ISTP
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ISTP - Artisan
ISTPs are action-oriented. They are fearless, impulsive and crave excitement. They like tools and instruments, and often become technical experts. 5% of the total population.
ISTP's value privacy and sometimes keep important issues to themselves. Their concern for the present moment and their inability to recognize the importance of setting goals, often leads them into conflict with authority. Being action-oriented, ISTP's react against restrictions — which typically causes the controls placed on them to increase. In these situations, boredom can quickly set in and the ISTP may experience feelings of internal emptiness. Overly regulated situations cause ISTP's stress. In such situations, ISTP's either attempt to flee or turn to fight their adversary face-to-face.
The ISTP's form of retaliation can be characterized as defiling what other people value. The ISTP violates rules and regulations that protect individual rights in retaliation for the lost opportunities and freedom that the ISTP believes they have had to endure. Getting even stimulates them and a renewed sense of excitement emerges from the risks of revenge and the expression of outrage. If stress continues, ISTP's will put what remaining freedom they have left in jeopardy by rebelling further.
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 I always wanted to work with animals and I was clear on that, but when I entered college through another major (anthropology) that was not veterinarian technician I started taking other classes. Another field that caught my attention was psychology. I like helping other people with their problems, even my friends tell me that I should be a psychologist, apparently I give good advice and I know how to be neutral and all of that. In other words I have the temperament and disposition to be a psychologist. To be honest when I’m done with my associates’ degree in vet tech my plans are to get a bachelors degree in psychology, just because this field really interest me. So technically I haven’t stopped going forward this career path I just putting a pause to It, because right now my main focus right now is animals.
 Ivan Pavlov
Practically everyone has heard of Pavlov’s dogs. Pavlov wasn’t technically a psychologist, but he made one of the most important discoveries in the field, and had a major hand in establishing psychology as an area of study. Pavlov is the one who recognized that responses to stimuli could be learned, based on his studies of dogs.
 John B. Watson
When Pavlov jump-started the field of psychology by recognizing the role of learned responses, he also kicked off behaviorism. Watson was the first behaviorist, arguing that psychologists can only base their theories on observation, and utilizing the study of animals in order to draw conclusions regarding human behavior.
To be honest I chose to be a vet tech because of my love for animals not because of some philosopher or pioneer or way of thinking. I have been studying for 5 years and I have not taken 1 class that has to do with vet tech, so I don’t know anything about major thinkers or philosophers. So I decided to do a little research on the people that has made history on this area and I learn a lot. From people that discovered diseases to people that fight for animal rights and to the first woman who became a veterinarian. There isn’t much information on these people but they definitely made major contributions to this field of work and it’s something that people should look up to. Below this there are some major veterinarians that made history:
1. Belle Bruce Reid – (1883-1945), was Australia's first qualified woman veterinarian surgeon, she went to the Melbourne Veterinary College, Fitzroy, in 1902. Completing the course in 1906, Reid was one of five final-year students who were examined, and the only one to pass. When she was registered by the Veterinary Board of Victoria on 21 November she was said to be the first formally recognized female veterinary surgeon in the world. A formidable woman, she only gained limited status in what was then a conservative, male-dominated profession, partly because she retired from practice early. In 1996 her name was included in the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Alice Springs, Northern Territory.
2. Elinor McGrath - Elinor McGrath was born around 1888 (exact dates unknown). She made her way to the Chicago Veterinary College and in 1907 was the first woman admitted to the school. Caring for horses and livestock had always been a male profession and when Elinor entered the Chicago Veterinary College many of her fellow students were upset about her presence. In later years Elinor recounted a story to another woman veterinarian telling her that “it got so rough I offered to the Dean that I should leave the college but he said “well you better not because you’ll make a better veterinarian than any of them.” Elinor graduated to become Elinor McGrath DVM in April of 1910 and she set up a small animal practice on Indiana Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. Besides being a compassionate animal doctor Elinor acknowledged the intimate role of animals in our lives.
a. McGrath was the first woman veterinarian in the US with another woman, Florence Kimball who graduated from Cornell in the same year, and together they established the first small animal practice even though little is known about her practice
3. Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang (1848-1932), was a Danish veterinarian. He discovered Brucella abortus in 1897, which came to be known as Bang’s bacillus. Bang’s bacillus was the cause of the contagious Bang’s disease (now known as Brucellosis), a malady that can cause pregnant cattle to abort and that can cause undulant fever in humans. For his contributions to veterinary medicine, he received an honorary doctorate from the Veterinary College of Utrecht in 1921. Bang also is known for his work in development of a control for bovine tuberculosis, research on smallpox vaccination, and research on animal bacillary disease.
4. Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914-1980), during his career, may have been the most sought-after vet in Great Britain. Buster cared for sick, injured and abandoned animals during the Second World War. He was a very kind man with a passion for animals. During the war, he kept a menagerie of abandoned animals at his house, "Clymping Dene." Buster Lloyd Jones founded Denes in 1951, which produces herbal veterinary products for animals. Buster wrote an autobiography entitled The Animals Came in One by One, and a sequel, Come into my World.
5. Debbye Turner is an American vet, a talk show hostess and winner of the 1990 Miss America contest. After graduation from college with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, she became a spokesperson for Purina and pursued a career in veterinary medicine before going into television. Turner’s first hosting job came at St. Louis’ NBC affiliate, KSDK, on a show called Show Me St. Louis in 1995. Six years later, Turner joined CBS News as a reporter and contributor on The Early Show, a position she still holds. Turner has been dubbed The Early Show‘s resident veterinarian, sharing a wealth of advice about quality pet care. In 2002, Debbye garnered an interview with President & Mrs. Bush at the White House for a Pet Planet segment about the first family’s pets.
6. Dame Jane Morris Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. Goodall set out to Tanzania to study wild chimpanzees by sitting amongst them, bypassing more rigid procedures and making discoveries about primate behavior that have continued to shape scientific discourse. She is a highly respected member of the world scientific community and is a staunch advocate of ecological preservation. Although Goodall is not a veterinarian I include her on this list because she works with animal welfare issues and she is a really important person in this line of work. And if I want to work in a zoo. I must know more about her.
Links - http://www.vet.cornell.edu/library/women/1kimball.htm
- http://www.petmd.com/blogs/fullyvetted/2011/aug/ten_vets_who_made_history#.UMze7m83h5G
- http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reid-isabelle-bruce-belle-11503
 I’m currently studying Anthropology but my dream academic/career path is veterinarian technician, also known as vet tech. Vet techs are the people who provide care and comfort to sick or injured animals. They work with veterinarians or scientists in a way that is similar to the help a nurse gives to a doctor. In other words it’s like an animal nurse. Even though I’m not studying what I really want to study. I’m doing everything I can to change majors and hopefully next semester I will be studying veterinarian technician. When I was a little girl I always wanted to be a veterinarian but as I grew up I learned that it is the vet that put the animals to sleep, and I don’t think I have the heart for that. So I started to look for other options, that works with animals and care for them. I have always been an animal lover, so I decided to go for veterinary technician. I have encounter a lot of challenges while in my studies, friends, boyfriends, peer pressure , but the hardest I would have to say my depression. Because of it I dropped my grades from a 3.00 GPA to below 2.00 GPA. And it’s been really hard to try to raise them and keep them to at least a 2.85 or 2.75 GPA. I’m planning to get my degree on the year 2014 may be 2015, but since I’m so unpredictable. And when I do graduate from veterinary technician I plan to get a job at a veterinary clinic in the states or better yet at a zoo in Australia, work my hardest, and maybe get a another degree on psychology which is something that always interested me. One thing that I have never been surer of is choosing this career path. Is what I love, animals. I know that there are something’s I won’t like, like the blood and math, but those things I can handle and besides “I would much rater suck at something that I love, that that be good at something that I hate and be miserable for the rest of my life.”
links: http://dot-job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/VETERINARY-TECHNICIAN.cfmhttp://www.allalliedhealthschools.com/health-careers/vet-tech/veterinary-technician-job-description
 “Pichea” - I always say this word. And to be honest I don’t remember where, when or from whom I learned this word from. I just know that it got stuck on me like around high school or so (everybody was using this word) for me this word means to ignore things or forget about a certain situations. I normally use it, when something is bothering me I say. “Le voy a pichar a la situacion” or when someone does not understand or I don’t understand what someone is saying to me, I say, “deverdad pichea, que no entiendo”. Or when I have to give advice and don’t know what to say to a friend, I just say, “picheale a eso”. Honestly I don’t know if people still use this word, but I don’t know why it just got stuck on me.
Make love, not war – I like saying this, and I say it every time I see there is a fight or an argument of any type. I really don’t like disputes, disagreements or fights of any kind, I’m a pacifist. And the thing is I want always like this, I learn to say this when I got myself in a really bad place, that pretty much got my ass kicked, and it wasn’t even my fault!. Just one of those times that you are there in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I’m a lover not a fighter - I say this every time someone (friend, boyfriend, family, someone random) want to argue or pick a fight with me. I consider myself a pacifist. Wasn’t always like that though. I started applying this saying not long ago, that when I realized that fighting or arguing is not going to take you anywhere. Having a civil conversation with someone in peace, will take you where you need to go.
“A pues bien” - this saying has multiple meanings. I learned it in high school and it got stuck on me ever since. “A pues bien” could mean that you don’t care what the person is saying, that you are shocked. That you are indifferent. It really depends on the way you say it. I’m always told it’s not what u say, it’s how you say it. And this is a word I say every time.
Dr. Seuss...
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
_Dr. Seuss Thinking...
"Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people"
_Anonymous I chose the word thinking because I’m always thinking and never doing. I think I liked this quote because sometimes thinking is torture because when you think too much you never really put your thoughts in action. And pretty much miss out on life... I think.....
 Animal cruelty it’s not only, killing an animal without compassion, it’s also leaving him exposed to the weather, not feeding him daily, feeding the wrong things or not providing fresh, clean water. Animal cruelty is also keeping him tied up by the dog house, or worst, with no shelter from the elements; not allowing for proper socialization, exercise or training, keeping him in a small area forcing him to live and feed in his own excrement. In short, animal cruelty is not to provide adequate care and attention. Adopting or buying a pet, any kind of pet, because, the neighbor has one or he is cute and cuddly and THEN abandoning him to his own devices, dumping him, may it be the mall, someone’s house, off a bridge somewhere or a black bag into a river. Not neutering or spaying an animal, when it is not for responsible breeding is also animal cruelty. Scientific experimentation and research must also be included in the list.
It is hard to believe that there are people capable of such mistreatment and that it has been going on for such a long time. Sadly there are people who see animals as toys to be kept while they are cute and bring no inconvenience to their lives. Well, newsflash!!! The responsibility of an animal is for life. They live, breath and feel just like us: they are living creatures and life MUST be respected and cherished. I recently read a news item about an animal abuse case in Arecibo, not the first or the latest but one of the many, the fact that it happened in my hometown is what makes me even madder. Someone in Arecibo beat to death a bitch surrounded by her puppies … Put her in a sack or black garbage bag and BEAT her to death with a stick. How is it possible for a person, a human being!. can be capable of such cruelty? What can make a person commit such a heinous act? I just don’t know, for me life is precious, any and every life, including animals. (Well, I must be honest, it does not include insects, I do not like insects and if they get in my way, it will not be my fault if they meet a quick death… lol. Animals that can bond with us are a whole different story). Since I was a little girl I was taught that when one buys or adopts an animal one acquires a responsibility, one is making a commitment to care and protect for as long as the animal lives. Why have a dog, cat, parakeet, cow or horse if after a month or two you are going to mistreat abuse or dump him? Better get a stuffed animal (not even a plant) it will not inconvenience you at all. That is the reason we have so many stray animals and see so many on the road.
But the most frightening and infuriating thing of all, even if people don’t realize this is a very big red flag, is that whoever abuses an animal is VERY capable of abusing a child, an older person or anyone for that matter. I guess that the real issue is not only animal abuse, but the lack of responsibility, commitment and empathy. Why are these values disappearing from our society? Why are we becoming less human instead of more so?
 The year is 1987 and the place Santa Cruz, California. This is the year when the story of a young boy in love with the sea, Jay Moriarty, begins. Abandoned by his father at an early age, an only child raised by his mother who was more absent than not. From a very early age Jay loved the sea and this passion lead him to practice surfing. He spends more time at the sea than anywhere else, still he was a very responsible son, and took care of everything in the home, becoming the man of the house. Jay started to work early to bring money to the house because his mother was fired often for her chronic tardiness; finally he started to wake her up in the morning so she wouldn’t be late for work. He distinguished himself for his honesty and integrity and because when the other kids were playing games and indulging in vices he was working and training to grow in his chosen sport – surfing.
Jay reencounters Frosty Hesson who once saved him from a wave. When he was a kid, Jay admired him in secret, as a teenager he follows Frosty and discovers that he is part of a four man group, all master surfers, who ride the giant waves called Mavericks. A Maverick is a gigantic wave event that occurs during some months of the year influenced by the El Niño. After witnessing this spectacle, Jay decides to ask Frosty for help to learn to ride these waves. At the beginning Frosty refuses but his wife makes him understand that the boy would try it on his own and probably will cost him his life. As training begins, the first lesson is that this training has four pillars that are the base for human existence: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. The hardest part is facing his fears, that going into the sea without first doing this could cost him his life in a panic. During training they shared many emotions, happy moments as well as sad, including the death of Frosty’s wife. Frosty becomes deeply depressed and goes to the deepest part of the ocean called the Abyss from where he doesn’t want to return. Jay follows him and when Frosty asks from which of the pillars does he hang on to keep on living he replies “You”. They had developed an unbreakable bond, more than friendship, it was a father and son relationship that Jay had never experienced and helped him become the man that he will be.
Jay reaches his dream, to ride the Maverick, thanks to Frosty’s training, his mother’s support and his life’s love, Kim. He became a surfing star. He only felt alive when he was riding the waves and had always believed that he would die young. He married Kim, and after winning several awards as a surfer, he died at age 22 while free diving at Las Malvinas.
Jay Moriarty’s story reminds me of a Walt Disney’s quote: “…if you can dream it, you can make it.” Jay had a dream, to ride the Maverick, his tenacity, dedication and sacrifices made him reach it. He overcame his fears, facing them so that nothing would thwart him in his way to reach his goal. Jay’s life is a wonderful example for young and adults: it doesn’t matter when, if you have a dream, you must try to reach it. The road might be easy or it may be difficult, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall, what it’s important is how many times you get up to reach your goal. .
La estadidad vs. la Isla del DesencantoThere are several reasons why I chose this editorial, “La Estadidad vs. la Isla del Desencanto” (Statehood vs. the Isle of Disenchantment) by Hernán Padilla, first of all even though this is the second election I will participate in, it is the first one the presents me with a decision that will not only affect me during the next four years, but it will affect me, my family and everyone in Puerto Rico for a very long time. It is my responsibility to become as well informed as I can. Second, the title is catchy and the author is very well known and respected. Finally, I believe that the subject of the Plebiscite has been “ignored” in favor of who is the lesser of two evils. This editorial talks about how with statehood we will have the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as any other citizen of the United States. How it will grant us the political power that we DO NOT have now, as we will have representation in Congress and the Senate and will participate in the election of the President. We will not be subject to the powers and limitations of the Territorial Clause. This editorial also reminds us that our cultural identity, who we ARE NOW, has grown within the “American” culture. They are not incompatible, like it or not there are as many “Americans” who love rice and beans as there are Puertoricans that love hamburgers, every state have their own cuisine, music, flag and traditions, in short: CULTURE. Cultural identity is not only based on Olympic representation. Not being part of the American Union will keep Puerto Rico in a political limbo, condemned to social disorder and economic misery. Also, as expected, Hernán Padilla asks for our vote for statehood. I wish he had talked about the other options because he seems very well informed and passionate about the subject and his language is clear and to the point.
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