Post 4: What's like to study psychology?

What's like to study psychology? 

 I study psychology at Universidad de Chile in the Social Science Faculty. I choose this career because I would like to help improve people's mental health and I am also interested in learning about how the processes of our mind develop, for example, language development, internalization of symbols, among others.

Due to the pandemic, from my first year of studies to the present, my classes are online.  The online classes have been difficult because my internet connection is unstable, so sometimes I have to watch the class recordings. Also, I don't know my classmates in person, so sometimes the interaction is complicated. In addition to the above, having to spend so many hours in front of the computer is exhausting both physically and mentally.

When I started college, it was hard for me to make friends, so at first, since I didn't know anyone, I didn't have anyone to share my doubts, but then I made friends and things got better. Despite that, at present I have few friends since it is a bit more difficult to interact in the virtual context.

I hope that when we return to face-to-face classes it will not be difficult to interact with my classmates since I am shy and outgoing.