Traveling around with my wedding gown!

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing great!

Today I am traveling from
Chicago to Caracas for my wedding, which we are going to celebrate next week (I promise photos hahaha).

The adventure has been fantastic! People are delighted with the fact that someone is traveling with her wedding dress! It's awesome! Everyone is nice and cordial! Even at the security check!

Here are some pictures while I wait for my next flight!

Ice-skating at the UofChicago!

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing great and you are all set for the holidays!

These are some pics of today's first try with the ice-skating at the Midway Plaisance (University of Chicago)

I hope you enjoy it!

The curve: the process of adjustment

Hi everyone,

I hope you are doing great. So today I decided to tell you a little bit about my experience with the grading system. I'm going to tell you a little bit about my feelings and experiences regarding my own adjustment process to this new system.

Basically, as some of you might know, here in the US it is common to grade your performance relative to your peers. This, as every system, provide you good and bad incentives as well.

The idea is as follows. You get a grade on the exam and everybody do as well. But the professor need to have some sort of normal distribution of the grades, son the majority of the grades are located about the mean and there exist some relevant variation between the extremes (both the worse and the best student).

This of course provide everyone with good incentives to do your best in order to achieve your best outcome and be on the top of you course.

However, it's is sometimes a source of frustrations and disincentives, since you have done your best, but you end up in the mean of your group, for example. Or maybe your absolute performance, say 90 out of 100, is quite good, but the mean was 88, so it doesn't reflect all the true about your real performance.

Disregarding on how good or bad we can think this system is, the important thing is that of you are not used to it, but you are considering coming to the US, you should definitely take it into account and try to adapt and make the necessary adjustment to your academic dynamic.

Finals week: my experience ex post

So finally we are almost done with the Autumn quarter!

The first final was over and there is only two more left and we are ready for Holidays!

Ex post, I can tell you the quarter system is quite intense. There is a lot of materials to cover in only 10 weeks, and that including midterms and finals weeks, so there is actually about 9 effective weeks to cover all.

For those of us who are new to this system, there is inevitable an adjustment period. Try to take it easy and make the necessary adjustment to make the process smooth (always remember that you came here voluntarily, Hahahaha).

The weather conditions also affect your performance. Consider that you might need to make adjustment in this area. In particular, the lack of sun after 4pm is driving me crazy, but I needed to find a way to overcome this situation. A good strategy is to use the university's resources such as libraries and study rooms. Getting out of your house is a good a idea if you like being around people and not falling sleep at 6pm!

I need to keep studying for mi Advanced Microeconomics final tomorrow, but I'll keep you posted!

Happy birthday to Daniel!

Hi everyone! I hope you are doing great. I've been missing because finals and the proximity of my wedding are driving me crazy!

This Monday we celebrate Daniel's (my husband) birthday. It was great to have out friends from all around the world having a great time with us.

I prepared a Tiramisu for the birthday cake and we also served different dishes as appetizers.

We are incredible grateful to have such a good friends and to have met people with this human quality in our life's.