Oral presentations, professors and hypocrisy

Hypocrisy, incoherence, abuse of power, I’ve already got a job and can do whatever I please, practising what you preach is overrated, shame, disrespect, unprofessionalism... Every year, students at university are required more and more to deliver oral presentations and they’re given guidelines on time, clarity, display... which sound more like threats to be taken …

TED – Ideas worth spreading

TED is an organisation with its roots in a conference on technology, entertainment and design and which got its name from their initials. However, every possible subject is considered in current conferences. Now two annual four-day conferences are held. TED Conference is the original one and it takes place in California in spring. On the …

My first experiencies with massive open online courses

Massive open online courses (MOOC) are becoming more and more popular lately, especially among professionals like translators and correctors, who need to know a bit of everything to tackle the texts they receive. Being a member of this group, it was a matter of time that I enrol any. Today I’m writing about my first …

CosmoCaixa Barcelona, a museum of science

Since my Saint’s Day is on the 3rd of February, which this year was on the first Sunday of the month, when lots of museums are free in Barcelona; I visited the CosmoCaixa Barcelona, a museum of science; despite not really caring about Saint’s Days. Although the general entrance is free on the first Sunday …

My Master in Analytical Chemistry – 2 of 2

Acknowledgements – continuation Everything started in February last year during a birthday supper with the Sílvias — two girls with the same name that you have to name in plural and never individually. They had just finished their masters and were starting their PHDs. They said such nice things about the experience that I got …

They say I work in a lab

This week we got the part of the computers in the old laboratory painted. This gave me some free time away from my job. Some free time means half a week. Last Monday was a normal working day; Tuesday was not supposed to be the same. The painters had to be there soon in the …