RODRIGO COLIN

Stress is a body's method of reacting to a challenge. Exams are always challenges for us, so is it possible for schools and universities to ensure that students will not suffer from stress during the exam period? Not really, simply because every single person reacts in a different way to stress and techniques that could work with some students, will not with others. However, there is always the possibility to make the exam period less stressful for everyone. So here are some methods that schools and universities could adopt to achieve this.

Being organized is a main characteristic of the productive people. Then making a revision timetable as we are nearing the exam season is something highly recommended. Revising for 24 hours a day before exams does not necessarily lead to success. However, being organized and frequently review the contents does lead to success.

Perhaps the most important thing when it comes to all-round education is the time for relaxation and the leisure activities. The importance on this activities lies on the fact that stress affects our work performance. So by relaxing we clear our minds and feeling refreshed it becomes easier to deal with challenges such as exams.

Being sure that we studied well for an exam is the best way to avoid stress, there is no better way; the more confident you are, the less stress you will suffer. Being said that, we have to be organized to achieve this confidence. In the other hand, relaxing and leisure activities are essential for student's health and productivity, therefore It is important to establish that exams are very important but at their own level, in other words, they are just to assess our preparation, if we do not fare well in them, it is not the end of the world.

The verb “cantinflear” means to speak or act in an incongruous or ridiculous manner without saying anything meaningful. It comes from the way of talking of the Mexican comic Cantinflas, or Mario Moreno Reyes.

Mario Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 - April 20, 1993), better known as Cantinflas, was a Mexican actor, circus performer and comedian. Charlie Chaplin once called Cantinflas the 'funniest man in the world'.

The Purépecha are an indigenous people centered in the northwestern region of the Mexican state of Michoacán, principally in the area of the cities of Cherán and Pátzcuaro. I have a favorable appreciation of them because I have been able to investigate their virtues and they are a population with many positive characteristics.

According to what I know, purépechas have always been pacific people, when the Spanish conquistadors arrived, they avoided fighting and conversely, they showed their desire to learn and that they were smart and hardworking people. Regarding to the Purépecha language, it survived and currently it is one of the indigenous languages of Mexico still spoken and at the present time, the way a lot of people communicate. I am not against purépecha but today what Mexico needs the less is linguistic diversity and that’s why Purépecha shouldn’t be taught anywhere; what we really need is a language that we all speak in order to better understand each other.

Then, we shouldn’t promote the teaching of purépecha since It takes the same learning one language than another. This doesn’t mean that some languages ​​are more valuable than others. However, we have to keep communicated between Mexicans through our national language which is Spanish and also to have another language that allows us to communicate with the rest of the world. There is need for greater social integration and this is only possible if we all speak the same language.

Choosing a college career is a very complex issue. I am in this process and there are so many factors beyond the prestige of an institution to consider.

Last summer I went to California, I went by myself and I stayed with my aunt who lives in a Village located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The main purpose of the trip was to visit Berkeley University, so I did it and I really liked it. The city of Berkeley wasn’t the way I thought. The first thing I noticed was that maybe eighty percent of the population was Asian, it was pretty weird (later I researched and found that this is due to the special immigration policy that the US Government has to students from Vietnam and South Korea). As soon as I got to the campus, I went to the visitor center, where a very nice girl, who was actually a student, gave me some information, she asked which major I was interested at and I told her that I was thinking of an engineering, then she gave me a map with a route of the places I should visit inside the campus, including the Engineering center. I visited all the places that she recommended and they were all very cool but my favorite was definitely the library, it was amazing! Finally, at the Engineering center I got some more info. Everything was going perfect until I asked the price of a semester, it was ridiculous! So I discouraged a little bit.