What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? English lenguage is a useful tool for scientific careers and for life in general. Learning english at university has been well but it could be better. As a biochemistry student I need to learn scientific english, this one might be essential to read papers, investigation related things and all kind of scientific stuff beyond the chilean scientific world. This last one point is very important because sciencie is a universal lenguage and it would be understood by all the scientific community. As I'm being part of this community I need as much as possible understand all kind sources of scientific information that will show up on my career. What about the use of blogs? The use of blogs limits the learning of scientific english, because all I do is write about my life and, for my career this is the least important. Sometimes for examples I need to look for a book that is only in english version and read
Drugs of abuse. Wow. I'm not so familiar with that, but i have some family members who are. I have two cousins drug addicts. I I have never had experience with this type of drugs but I do know the effects that these they bring. For example Cannabis : The effects will vary according to the kind (cannabis sativa, cannabis indica) and ratio of cannabis ingredients within the plant species. Their abuse may range from memory lapses, silliness, loss of motivation, paranoid thoughts, light-headedness to low hormone production. Hallucinogens, largely obtained from cacti and fungi, impair depth perception, cause hallucinations, panic attacks, paranoia... Inhalants , such as household chemicals, eg, neoprene, are not intended for human consumption and cause light-headedness, giggling, loss of motor control... Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite—intense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug. Long-term effectt