López de Castro.Blog

  My experience learning English at university has been quite diverse, the first year was somewhat simpler and of a basic level, however it reminded me of many things from high school. The second year was more difficult because of the level that exists, therefore it has been more difficult than the first year, also the internet connection is sometimes not good to access the zoom classes, but I have learned many things, for example with The blogs that have allowed me to practice my writing in English more, I hope that in my next English courses I will use blogs to practice. I need to continue improving my pronunciation and my grammar, these two issues are difficult in my opinion, therefore I hope to take a course in the next few months to continue improving, I can also watch movies, series and listen to music in English, with the aim of improving my listening and my pronunciation. In conclusion the pronunciation and grammar are very important to speak English and I must improve it...

  In my second year of architecture, I think that I have enough time to think about improving some things in my study program. First of all, I think that the curriculum is fine, however I think some subjects are not learned much, although this also depends a lot on the teacher. The curriculum should teach design programs, which are very necessary in the career, and in my opinion give more hours to the history course.  The academic load on some occasions is quite a lot, especially in the workshop, however the faculty has made some efforts to change this situation, although there are still some things to change. The infrastructure of the faculty is quite deficient in several aspects, many improvements are missing to make it meet the standards of an architecture faculty, for example a better dining room for students and better study rooms, although it is great to study in a faculty with so much history like FAU.  There is also a problem with computer rooms, they are few ...