Nicole's blog

As I said in previous post, I am a third year Natural Renewable Resources Engineering student. Until now, I notice that my current degree has a huge diversity of subjects. The subjects cover almost all the areas or topics about natural renewable resources and engineering methods, giving important knowledge from a general point of view. For example, I have mathematical, biological, chemical, physical subjects, even some environmental law subjects. Also, some of them are linked with project management or territoriality. So, as far as I understand, in the first 3 years of study, you ended up the degree knowing about multiple topics o areas, but nothing too specific. Then, in the following two year, as far as I am aware the subjects are more specific to certain topics. In fact, you must choose professional electives, which delve deeper in different areas of interest to the degree. In relation to workload and length of studies based on my experience, it is a lot of information to learn ...

  Actually, I am an extremely pessimist person about the future. Especially in environmental matters. Because of my current degree, which is Natural Renewable Resources Engineering, I know a little bit more about what is at stake now and in the future. And in present the humankind has been exceeded the environmental limits of the earth, not all of them, but 4 that are very important. So, in my opinion the future does not look bright for humans. We must deal with the actual climate change and future problems like a probable biodiversity collapse, water scarcity, oil depletion, among others. For those reasons, I wouldn’t like to go to the future. In fact, I don’t want to have children, for those reasons too. Future is too uncertain to know what would happen, and that makes me extremely difficult to choose where I would go, or even if I would go in first place. I prefer to focus on which things I could do now to help the environment and people. Finding ways to prevent problems that ...

As a Natural Renewable Resources Engineering student, I would expect to have a job related to that. The thing is as a student of this degree, I have no idea what kind of job I would be doing. But I do have an idea about what kind of job I would like to have. I would prefer to work most of the time indoor, and maybe travel sometimes across the country to visit relevant natural places like natural parks or reserves, in order to experience, connect and know from the source, more about nature. In addition, I would like to travel to “Sacrifice´s Zones”. To know by myself the consequences that people who lives in precariousness have to deal, because of nature's degradation. With the aim to be able to help somehow those people with my capacities in the near future. For this reason, my goal is to study a mayor about renewable energy management and maybe some courses of Environmental education. Due to, work in sustainable solutions for the “Sacrifice´s Zones” and been capable to teach peopl...