INTERVIEW

Every student has wondered at least once what he or she is going to do when he finishes the degree. I want to interview an engineering student who is about to finish his degree. His name is Javier Ortega and he studies systems engineering at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

Question: -Why did you decide to study an engineering four years ago?

Answer:-Since I was a child I enjoyed a lot studying math and physics in the school, and I am very interested in the technology and micro-technology so I decided that this engineering was the best option for me. I don’t imagine myself studying other thing. Also because I am bad at memorizing things so I wouldn’t be able to study something like history or civil law.

Q: - During these years, have you had any difficulty with this degree?

A: -Actually yes, I had some difficulties and I also still having them. You have to be a very hardworking person if you want to be an engineer and it requires long hours of studying, calculating, practicing... Although I like this kind of knowledge some subjects are too difficult.

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Q: -Nowadays everybody talk about economic crisis and joblessness in Spain. Are you afraid of that? Do you know what you’re going to do the next year?

A: -Like the most of spanish people I am also afraid of not be able to find a job. This year I finish my degree and I don’t know exactly what I’m going to do next. I have already take a look for some jobs and I have noticed how important is to speak English fluency. I have a good English level but I am not sure if it’s enough. If next year I don’t find any job, probably I will spend several months in a foreign country just to learn more English.

Q: -What advices would you give to everyone who wants to study engineering?

A:- I always say that if you want something you have to work hard to get it. As I said before I think that if you want to be an engineer (aerospace, mechanic, electronic…) you need to spend a lot of hours studying. Sometimes you will have to spend whole days until you have a big headache and it won’t be enough but if you really like it you don’t have to stop working and give it up. Everything is possible if you are a hardworking person.

"YO TB TQ"

It’s not strange to communicate with our friends or our family using apps like WhatsApp or social nets like Facebook. As a result of this new way of communication, almost everybody has misunderstood something he has been told, or someone has misunderstood something we have said. This kind of situations creates absurd arguments or annoyances.

Here there’s a video (in Spanish) where there is a boy and a girl having the same conversation by two different ways. I encourage you to watch the video and think about which way of communication is the better option.

HOW TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION

As I have said before making a good presentation is something important in your professional life. But, do we know how to make an effective presentation?

First of all we have to know that a presentation has three parts: introduction, body and conclusion. The first and the third one are the most important. In the introduction you have the only chance to catch the attention of the audience, and if you don’t do it correctly they won’t pay you attention in the rest of the presentation. In the conclusion you have to remark the main idea (the most important and one you want them to keep in mind). Before making a presentation you have to know which is this idea, because if you don’t have it clear they won’t have it either.

The best way of catch their attention is make the audience to take part in your presentation, but this is not always possible. Other tips you can follow are: don’t write too much in your slides, control yourself if you think you get nervous speaking in public, modulate your voice volume…

MAKING GOOD PRESENTATIONS

Let's imagine you're a prominent businessman and you have to choose between two projects. These two projects are very good and you will earn a considerable amount of money if you get involved in them, but a project is a little better than another.

Although they both are very good, there is something where they are different: the presentation.

The first presentation is the project that is a slightly  better than the other, but who has carried out was very nervous and has done a very boring presentation where he has been reading some slides, so there are some details that you don’t have completely clear.

On the other hand the project of the second presentation is slightly worse, but at present it has done much better than the first. It has caught your attention from the beginning. You have understood the main idea of the presentation and at the end if you had any doubt, you could solved it.

Probably the project you would choose is the second one.

Now that you know why making good presentation is important. Do you know how to make a good presentation? If you are interested on learning how to make it, you should read the next posts.

ASPERGER SYNDROM

Every day when we get home we have talked at least with 100 people. This is because we have the necessity of interact with people. We need to meet people and talk with our friends and family. We all need to have some relationship with people and things around us, but there are some exceptions, like for example people who has autism.

Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder which is characterized by several difficulties in social interaction and non-verbal communication. These difficulties don’t let them have normal relationships with people around them. They can’t express their feelings and they don’t understand the other people’s feelings. They also have problems understanding the irony and sentences with a double sense. People with this syndrome don’t have our same necessity of interaction with the people around them. Also they are people that need every single thing to be a routine because it makes them feel comfortable and secure.

Apart from these difficulties in social interaction and communication, they are normal people so they don’t have a lack of intelligence or something like that. The results of different studies say that Asperger people are as intelligent as people without this syndrome or even more.