Welcome to a public university

At lunch, I was just talking with a classmate about the building of the Arts Faculty in Morandé Street. He was telling me that it was a very old construction with long, dark aisles and creepy lamps hanging from the ceiling. Well, that’s a very big problem in this University.
Even when our faculty seems to be better, the reality is that there’s still a lot to do. We need to improve our resources like the video cameras, our TV and radio studios and our library. Sometimes it’s really hard to get to do your works in places like the library, because is too small and sometimes, or maybe always, very, very noisy.

About the video cameras, can you imagine that three years ago people had to work with tapes for the video cameras? Come on! Tapes?! Seriously?! Luckily for us this is part of the past and now we have digital video cameras, which make the job a lot easier, because you have to remember the fact that after the shooting there is always a time of editing. But even when the suffering with tapes has end, we still need better editing rooms, and more cameras! With all the money that people pays only in this room (6 peoples) we should get a lot more instruments for our works.

About the studios, they are very small too, as the library. When I had the Radio Subject it was very bored to spend the most of the class waiting for your turn to record your podcast. And sometimes it was kind of stressing, because we had only one hour to record our podcast and a ten people queue in front of you, all of them doing the same stuff: survive a small studio.
And the same history with the TV studio. Too small, too old, too come-on-this-is-not-what-I’m-paying.
I hope, I really do, that this improves in the future. We need to have better spaces for our professional development, I mean, I can’t conceive that our studies programme be limited by the tools we have, or by the one we do not. But anyway, welcome to a public university.