My blogging experience.

In the past I had thought about having a blog, even I started one (in Spanish) but I only write one post and finally I decided to delete it. I think is a strange thing because I have never enjoy writing and express feelings and opinions but for some reason blogging has caught my attention for a long time and now thanks to english class I have one!
At the beginning even start to write was very difficult to me especially when the topic was about something we like because I took a lot of time to choose something, but although I'm not the fastest to decide now is easier to me.
Writing this blog in general has been a good experience because I have learned how to put in order my ideas and my vocabulary has increased. Also reading blogs of my classmates has been funny because it has allowed me to know about them, their likes and that we are not so different.
If I keep writing maybe would be about places, movies, theater plays, books; something like a blog of reviews and the blog would be a motivation for go to places, watch movies, read books just to keep it updated.

With this experience I have learned that is not necessary be an expert in a topic to write, we can do it just for fun and that the goal doesn't need to be became to be one of the most popular blogs, it just can be learn, enjoy or have a place to express our feelings.

From the invisible to the visible world and back.

Nanoparticles and nanotechnology are part of an almost complete new world and to know that it can be aplied to human's health makes it more interesting.
Reading (just before writing) about this topic I found information about a nanoparticle called "solid lipid nanoparticles" (SLN) like it's name said is composed of solid lipids and it's function is to carry.
In pharmaceutical area is used to transportate drugs and protect the active principle in order to arrive complete and be more effective in the organ where is needed.
Thanks to this function the use of drugs have better results because the drug doesn't dissolve in the way (for example, the stomach environment) and it's use have better results.
Besides this, it have more advantages like:
- Decreases the frequency of dosing.
- Reduces drug toxicity.
- Increases drug bioavailability.
All this advantages directly affect patient health and that is the reason this topic caught my attention and because it relates with drugs and pharmacy.

Before to write this post I didn't know so much about nanoparticles, but now I can see a part of their uses, functions, and that this can be applied in a lot of areas. I think that is necessary to develop this technologies for people, science, environment and maybe we can have a better future.

The most enjoyable subject thus far.

From the beginning of this year I knew that at least for four semesters I was gonna have leveling subjects and they are okay, but between these there is one that is called "Chemical laboratory techniques" this subject is so exciting for me because I didn't have chemical laboratories in school so I only learned theoretical chemistry there.

This class is divided in two sections. The first is theoretical and after that we have the practical part. In laboratory we are divided in groups from A to D and each group is formed by about 18 members. We have done different activities and the first classes were about basic things we needed to know like use different types of balance, measure volume with different instruments and more, learn this was important to be ready for more advanced techniques. 

I like this subject because I like to see how the things that we have learned in the theoretical class happen in the lab and simply because is funny, I feel that is similar with cooking that is one of my favourite hobbies. Besides of this reasons I like the environment that forms, the attitude of teachers is ideal because they are willing to answer all your questions and in this type of subjects where your mistake is not just a wrong answer in a paper the disposition of teachers and their assistants is very important.

And this is just my first semester! I hope to discover many subjects that I can enjoy as much as working in laboratory.

Marya Sklodowska.

There are so many scientists throughout history and almost all of them are men but among them is this outstanding physicist and chemist, Marya Sklodowska better known as Marie Curie.

Marie Curie was a polish nationalized french scientist. She was born in November 7, 1867 and passed away in July 4, 1934. She was married with Pierre Curie who was scientist too.
She studied in Sorbonne University, institution where later she became in teacher being the first woman in this position.

Marie Curie

In 1898 along with her husband announced the discovery of two elements: Plonium and Radium thanks to this they won in 1903 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

I like her because she is one of them most recongnised woman in the science history. There must be others, of course, but I have heard most about her. I like the fact that she excelled in an area commonly dominated for men and that she was the first in some of her achievements, that makes me think she was not interested in what other people could say about her because she was not like the women of her time. Maybe she was the motivation for other women to become interested in science.