¿Academic year?

What’s involved in an academic year? Is it even possible to define where college ends and when extra-academic life begins? In the following lines I’ll try to answer these questions because in the present year college issues has been secondary in my life; so it would be very difficult to refer about something that has really been less important than other subjects such as future thoughts and life expectations. Of course, this hasn’t always been like this. I think most of freshmen and sophomore are really interested in their careers and eager to learn nuw stuff. I was one of them.
When you’re through that phase, your mind starts worrying about other things. Right now, and since the beginning of this year, I couldn’t care less about grades and subjects. I mean, I’m studying to approve my classes and so far I haven’t failed anyone…but maybe because I’m tired or maybe because my career doesn’t seem so interesting to me now, I just want this year to end, so I won’t have to answer any other exam for a long time.
But this “syndrome” it appears to be characteristic of this stage. Other classmates and friends are going through the same thing. Most of them are really tired, just thinking on to finish 4th year and start looking for a job or develop their thesis. Maybe when you’re about to end such an important stage of your life, anxiety starts to grow and consequently you just want it to end. We are so close of ending college that apparently we don’t wanna wait any longer.
Anyway, it’s not like I have had a bad year or something like that. I’ve done great in most of my classes, I’ve recently found a great job that allows me to study and win some money at the same time so I couldn’t say it’s been a bad year at all. There are interesting things going on right now; I’m returning to play music after a long recess and I’m starting to care about things that I had left behind because college.
After college, a new stage of life opens and…who knows…maybe it will be a better one.

Sociological Issues

Sociology is a wide field. to define challenges is to put an eye on what are the issues that need to be solved at a whole society level. therefore, challenges in Chile will probably be slightly different than in Argentina or Brazil or any european country. Here in Chile I think sociology is worried about two main issues. The first is a very complex one and involve many subjects: we're reffering to social structure and the intentions to analize the way it's changing according to the new world stage, globalization, deregulated economic activities and labor flexibility. Of course, this has a lot to do with inequity and poverty, but also with equal opportunities which leads us to the second issue that's "bothering" our discpline here in Chile. We are reffering to Education with everything that implies. Due to recent events, educational system has proved to be very unequal and moreover is broading social differences and therefore sustaining a certain whelth distribuition, that, at least in Chile, needs to be heavily corrected. In fact, that's one of the issues that goverment needs to put their hands to, in order to be part of OCDE organization.

Back to order in Honduras.

I've recently heard about Zelaya's possible restitution after beeing removed from his duty as Hondura's President by a Military dictatorship. The thing is, after almost 5 months of negociations it seems that democracy might have another chance in that nation. substitute president Roberto Michelletti is about to leave the seat and handle it over to legitimate president Zelaya.

What I just can't understand, is that forces behind Micheletti are simply retreating and facing the fact that the situation they tried to hold it's not possible due mostly to international political pressure. I believe that if they have come this far, I don't think they would just pack their things and go home, because it's supposed that things should go back as how they were before militar intervention... Really? Can't imagine that happening.

I mean, it would be really nice that things work out that way, but...c'mon, we all know that right wings forces when they feel something is bothering or attacking their interests won't just stay calm watching things pass by. Therefore, I believe they will actually handle power formally to Zelaya but they will pull their strings in order to achieve their main goal, which is, as always, to remain things exactly as they are right now, because right now, they are winning.