Romina Toro

Hi,  When I decided to apply to university, I was full of uncertainty about my career choice. I was faced with an endless list of academic courses, many of which I was completely unfamiliar with. I had no idea what they meant or how they related to my future. My first year at university turned out to be a journey back to the basics of architecture. The first subjects like geometry, mathematics, history and workshop 1. Everything was done by hand, which was a challenge for me as I had been told, but lied to, that it didn't matter if I drew badly, which it did. As I entered my second year, the degree began to take shape. I started exploring more specific subjects and working on the computer with programmers, which was also a big challenge in my academic journey. The workload has been very heavy throughout the course, but I think it's also my fault that I don't know how to organise myself. There are times when I feel like I'm leaving one task to start another, like a never...

  Choosing between travelling to the past or to the future poses an intriguing dilemma. For me, it is a difficult choice, and I can see strong reasons in both directions. However, at this point in time, I would lean towards travelling to the past. The main reason for this choice is my difficulty in visualizing myself in the future. For some reason, I cannot project a "me" into the future in a clear way. This makes the option of travelling to the future somewhat abstract and challenging for me at the moment.   Travelling to the past, on the other hand, is attractive because it would allow me to see my former self from a different perspective. It would be an opportunity to learn lessons I may not have valued at the time. In addition, I could resolve unfinished business with old friends and perhaps find closure in some areas of my life.   However, I want to emphasize that I don't think I would stay in the past permanently. Rather, I would consider this as a kind of t...