I'm going Down Under .... Bye and thank you

Bueno, bueno, pandilla. Esta vez, en castellano. Quizás por última vez.

Algunos lo sabéis ya, pero esta entrada es para despedirme. Me voy a vivir a Australia y, por lo tanto, este ha sido mi último semestre en la UCJC. Voy a la Universidad de Deakin, a la facultad de Architecture and Environment, cerquita de Melbourne. Tiene una pinta excelente. La decisión estaba tomada hace tiempo, y no creo que merezca la pena en este foro comentar los pormenores. Pero sabed todos y todas, que si por una casualidad de la vida, os dejáis caer por allí, no dudéis en buscarme. Espero que mantengamos el contacto.

Solo tengo que decir un par de cosas:
- Que este último semestre ha sido estupendo, por el compromiso y dedicación que toda la Unidad ha puesto en juego. Mi más sincera enhorabuena y agradecimiento por algo, que aunque no sabíais, me ha hecho la despedida mucho más agradable.
- Y que os deseo la mejor de las suertes en lo que os queda de carrera universitaria y, lo que es más importante, en vuestra trayectoria profesional posterior. Abrid bien los ojos, no paréis de aprender, y estudiad el enorme abanico de posibilidades que nuestra amada carrera podrá tener en el futuro inmediato en todo el planeta.

Lo dicho: Un placer y hasta la vista. Espero que nos encontremos pronto en alguna parte...

Final Qualifications and more....

Well, I join Diego´s congratulations.

I think we've taken risks, but we are convinced that the result, learning and involvement have been much more than satisfactory.

And qualifications are the proof. 31 out of 32 students who have completed the course, it is simply memorable.

We are aware that some people has greatly benefited the dynamics of the groups, going largely trailer and, on the other hand, if we were worried in the beginning, people who had something to prove by themselves, responded pulling clearly with extra responsibility their corresponding groups.

A single abandonment, for purely personal issues, makes us feel really proud. We grieve the fails, but in all cases, a final effort could not compensate for the huge gap that was accumulated throughout the semester. We will meet in the exam with the failed students, on june the 11th at 10 oclock.

In short: congratulations and thanks for the effort at all.

We are particularly proud of some personal cases, efforts and progresses, but we firmly believe that the collective result has been excellent as we could see in our unit´s exhibition last thursday. Great.

We remain on track. We´ll keep in touch. Soon.

Unit V&F. 
Final qualifications second semester.

Sergio F	7,0	NOTABLE
Carlos	6,5	APROBADO
Alberto	7,0	NOTABLE
Laura R	8,0	NOTABLE
Rafael	5,0	APROBADO
Andrés	5,0	APROBADO
David	9,5	SOBRESALIENTE
MªJosé G G	5,5	APROBADO
Ínigo	6,5	APROBADO
MªJosé R R	9,0	SOBRESALIENTE
Daniela	5,0	APROBADO
Lavinia	5,5	APROBADO
Michele	5,5	APROBADO
Dimitra	7,0	NOTABLE
Panagiotis	4,0	SUSPENSO
Aikaterini	6,5	APROBADO
Arturo	4,0	SUSPENSO
Francisco	5,5	APROBADO
Martha	4,0	SUSPENSO
Angel	4,0	SUSPENSO
Laura A	5,5	APROBADO
Jesús Miguel	9,0	SOBRESALIENTE
Bárbara	7,5	NOTABLE
Jorge	4,0	SUSPENSO
Cristina	6,0	APROBADO
Luis	5,5	APROBADO
José Antonio	9,5	SOBRESALIENTE
Sergio L	6,0	APROBADO
Miguel L	7,0	NOTABLE
Enrique	6,0	APROBADO
Adela	6,5	APROBADO
Arian	8,0	NOTABLE

 

SUCCESS

I absolutely agree with our "speedy" gallego (I thought I was quick but now I can confirm I'm getting old). Congratulations for previous entry. Good photographs and accurate opinion about our Unit's performance.

So, I'd like to congratulate all students in the Unit for two things:

- For your general performance along the whole semester, both in individual and team work. I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have, and I'm pretty sure you've all developed some skills you didn't expect to. Risky but finally, very good expererience.

- For our jury's final stand. Both for it's preparation and it's execution. Of course there are differences between the work done by each one. But my impression is that everyone completed his/her tasks, and we were able to present a very solid and complete exhibition of our semester. I don't think many Units have  achived that 31 out of 32 students have completed their semester, with everybody involved in every step until last day. So well done, congratulations and thanks all of you.

I absolutely agree with Eduardo Arroyo when he says the built environment we chose for this semester would probably not deserve the attention we paid to it. Probably it would have been smarter just to demolish the whole ilegal construction and start with something else. We knew that from the beginning. That was the basic point of our research. And what is most important: I'm also sure that if quite a few of your final proposals were actually built, that new environment would never need to be demolished for it's lack of architectural interest and it's useless morphology.

That's it then. We recieved and we're checking all the extra documentation some of you handed in during the jury and we'll briefly publish our final assemment. And... I'll say goodbye to all of you. Congratulations.