Why did you choose this career?

 When I was younger my dream was to become a great veterinarian. As I grew up I realized that my dream career wasn´t really to be a veterinarian. As a teenager I thought about studying medicine but I also threw it away. There were so many possibilities and I didn't want to just pigeonhole myself into a career. During high school, the career of psychology also crossed my mind but I wasn´t  clear about it.

When I finished high school I took half a year to clear my head and think about what I really wanted to study and of course decide what I would work on for the rest of my life.  At the end of the year I realized that the career of psychology was what I most wanted to study above all else. I applied to several universities with my score thinking about staying in psychology at one of the state universities and as a joke I applied to the Academic High School Program as my first option thinking that I wouldn´t stay since my score wasn´t that high. When I saw that I stayed in the academic program of the university of Chile I was surprised, I enrolled and finally I can be in psychology as I wanted.  

At first I was a little afraid to compete for a place and I constantly thought that I wouldn´t stay in psychology but during the first year I met wonderful people with whom I could support myself and get ahead, that helped me a lot. That's why I say that my experience at the university has been hard but good.

When I graduate from college I would like to have a comfortable place to work, where my patients feel comfortable, calm and safe. It has always struck me how, in my own experience, one can talk to a psychologist comfortably or uncomfortably depending on whether the room they are in looks and feels cold or warm. Also, I never liked the idea of working in a closed office without natural light.