First headache

Always that we start a new stage in our academic life we are told that it is going to be really more difficult that what we've been seeing before, in part that's true but do not be afraid because of that. Here in Venezuela it is particularly true if you are going to start studies in a serious university like the Simón but as Adidas "impossible is nothing".

Even so, my first week passed very easy, I had even been relaxed until now, when the first difficulty appears: How to demonstrate that every number is odd or even? Why Cos (x + y) = CosxCosy - SinxSiny? and so on... , this has made me search the web and I found some useful results that I think if you're in a similar situation you may find then useful too, Happy Mathematics!!

RapidTables.com contains quick reference information and tools, as simplest as the sentence, it could help you pull trough in a hurry.

Mathbrain is the YouTube channel of the Chilean professor Nelson Lillo Terán and he explains very well with short lessons about Maths, Chem and Physics. This is the video that makes me arrive to his channel:


Khanacademy.org the best internet tool that I've ever found to get more knowledge

Things done and things to do

Today I'm not going to talk about my class or something because I stayed like watching pink elephants flying after el rolo de fume de Mate de honor, so let's make a list xD:

Things done

Touch the owl (Wed)
Meet Empleados Dining Hall (Thu)
See Caracas from the USB (Thu)
Visit my reading room (Thu)
Meet Estudiantes Dining Hall (Fri)
Meet Colmillo (Fri)

Things to do

Study
Meet La perrita negra de la USB
See Caracas from another view
Visit MYS Dining Hall
Study more
Meet the pavilions
Visit 1 reading room a day
Keep studying

First look to the green paths of the USB

If there's some hobbie that has became one of the most practiced by me during the latest month is trekking, and studying in a university in el quinto coño in a mountain is the most suitable place to be. I gotta say that I don't know much about the topic but I've been walking for some of them and I'll do a map before Week 12.

The first trekking past that I visited was in my age in PIO, it was the path that starts at Casa del Empleado and ends near the intersection with the Calle Inglesa. From this travel I can first highlight (starting from Casa del Empleado) Aulas Abiertas, then another path that goes to the back of the dining hall and the main path until  Servicios Generales where the view of the campus is really good and finally you will find a couple of ways: one up that leads to a peladero de chivos and other down that leads to the parking of the buses and the end of the path.

Today I had my first walk since I started with a couple of friends, we started at the Alligator's lagoon -and we did not see even a fucking baba- and then we take the path between this and the Olympic field. The major part of the way you just see trees and more trees but after 40 minutes you might find a view like this

By  Ernesto Lorenzo

and after 15 minutes more you'll find a gas pipe, follow it up and look at your right the South-west of Caracas

By jdanielo

Following the same path you will find another that goes to a house, we didn't take this one but we keep walking by the same path until its end in the right side of the Alligator's lagoon. To get a better idea of what I'm talking about activate the layer Gallery in Google Earth and you will find more information and see the path from above.

For now this is what I know, but I will be "exploring" more, sorry because if the pics but we didn't take any camera with us -you know the way this walks happen xD-, anyway these are excellent images of the same place even considered as that by Google Earth, any suggestions or info about the green paths of the Simón will be well received!! :)

Banking basics

As I, the most people that got the TAI for their first time also was the first account they opened, I've been looking for information about the topic but everything is dispersed, so here's my little guide for TAI/Banking:

TAI inside the USB:

Once you've gotten it, the first thing you have to do is activate it, to do this go to the second floor of CB2 in the first office you find going upstairs by the stairs in front of USBmanía and Banco de Venezuela, make the queue -always queues everywhere!- and tell the girl or boy in the box-office that you want to activate your TAI.

You've already activated it, now you have charge it. Go to Caja in the same building floor 1 at the end of the corridor (if you go downstairs by the same stairs) and then toward the right, do not forget your ID every time that you are going to charge. Another thing that you have to take account is that you must specify the service that you are charging.

In the case of the library charge there's a third step, continue your "tour" at BIBL in an office in the right corner of PB, show your TAI and you'll be already registered at the library system.

TAI as a debit card:

Before starting with the explanation of how to activate it and use the account in Mercantil, I'd like to start with the concept of debit card:

The debit card is a plastic bank card 8.5 x 5.3 cm with a magnetic strip on the back that stores information about data access and the balance of money available to the owner on your account, used to perform active financial (increase the balance), passive (reducing balance) or neutral (no increase or decrease the balance available) operations with it. In this type of card the money used is the debit that the owner has in his bank account and not the bank loan as with credit cards. Some banks make agreements with their clients to enable them to take money found, generating a loan with their respective interests.

from http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjeta_de_d%C3%A9bito

Clear with this, now some banking explanations:

To make deposits or retire founds you will need to carry the notebook and your ID when you go to the bank and follow the routine process.

To start using your ABRA24 follow these steps:

I hope I could have clarified all or at least some of your doubts, anyway you can look for further info at Mercantil or TAI's FAQ, or if you preffer leave your questions in the comments and I will be answering as soon as I could.

El Uesebista :)

Uesebista año 3 numero 1

Further reading about TMT and TMA

Music for today ♫

Exercise in the search of the 5 of fire

This is part of my non official homework, I gotta write and I have to improve the way I do it, and there's only one way to get it and of course is doing it.

I'm gonna apply a principle that has always been being floating in the air, but I -and I think we amateur writers- almost never use: organize the ideas on the mind before translate them to letters, in fact when I was looking for more information to amplify my knowledge about the topic I found this document by the European Commission and the first chapter is precisely called Think before you write and the easiest way of doing it is starting with simple questions.

In the document they expose the ones they think more important when writing European Commission documents and by extension any document seemed, anyway I rescue three that can be applied for anything you want to write and the fact that they're not many makes it even easier, these questions are:

1. What?: in this part you clarify what is exactly the message that you want to transmit, although it looks really stupid because is an obvious question, you gotta focus on the elaboration of a little scheme that allow you to have a direction and remember all the subtopics or complementary things that you want to add.
2. Why?: motivation is a fundamental part at anything. Another thing that will help you to organize your ideas is think about what you want to get with your text, there are many reasons that will be given in accordance with the kind of text that you're writing. This question this question will direct you inherently to the third one:
3. Who?: This will define your target, I always say that the best way to do something is when you feel pleasure when you do it, but you have to think about the rest too. When writing this is quite important, because it is not the same when writing a scientific essay as when writing a newspaper article, this will also define you the kind of vocabulary and literary resources that you should use.

Another key to write better is reading, this is other thing that has always been being floating but we -and now I can assure it for the most of the people-, but not "reading the Equestrian Gazette"  if not doing real reading exercises. This will help you to get more vocabulary and will offer you good examples of how to write. I'm not a very assiduous reader, I mean, I'm not the kind of person that has read many complete books but I've read the following if you want to start with something more digestible:

• Si Tú Me Miras by Laura Antillano.
• 7 Habits of the Highly Effective Teenagers by Sean Covey
• El Príncipe by Nicolás Maquiavelo

besides I'm always reading articles that go well beyond "the Equestrian Gazette" and I'm pretty sure that I will be reading a lot, in fact I already has got two books in my wish list:

• ... by ... Oppenheimer
• La Picardía del Venezolano by Axel Capriles

To finish the article, I leave you these links in order to get further information:

European Commission: How to write clearly

How to write | BBC World Service

02 Know How to Write Well

Happy first day to los Computistas and all the new students!!!

Important things about regime in the USB

Range of points

1: 0 - 29

2: 30 - 49

3: 50 - 69

4: 70 - 84

5: 85 - 100

IA formule

Academic index limits

Situation	1rst Trimester	From 2nd Trimester
AN	IA≥2,8000	IA≥3,000
PP	1,9000≤IA<2,8000	2,8000≤IA<3,0000

N-4: If you haven't passed a subject from the 1rst trimester when you  are coursing the 5th you're out of the USB.

N-6: If you haven't passed a subject from the 2nd trimester when you  are coursing the 7th you're out of the USB.

Credits limits

AN: 8≤Credits≤16

PP: 8≤Credits≤11

Vivencial: Day 2

=) I'm really inspired today, I really wanna write of course I won't say much abot my vivencial but there is a list that I will never forget. Éxitos !!!

Dylan
Kris
Andre
Vaniuska
Luis
Alejandro
Ángel
Francisco
Elizabeth
Ricardo
Juan Pablo
Julio
Gaboh
Poncho
Guillermo
Pietro
Ori
Kevin

Vivencial: Day 1

I fucking loved it, Section 46 ♥

13 hours and a half to the vivencials

Watta moment now, it will be in3ting to remember in 5 year when Dios mediante I graduate, a lot of  emotion and confusion now at the USB 11, but well... newbies at the end! xD. For now the calendar is the following:

• 15 - 16: Vivencials
• 19: Begining
• 20: TAI
• 20 or 21*: English exoneration, then take or not to take another language??

* Rumours

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