My favourite pieces of technology

I had my first smartphone when I went to college, before that, I only used a phone to call and sometimes send text messages. For me it was all a discovery of the proximity of globalization, before I felt that I lived in a "bubble", not in Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
I use my phone all day and I feel bad if I do not have a battery because I feel that many things can happen and I will not be aware.

I like my phone because it is small in comparison to others and all the functions are okay to me, it is enough.

I think my life would be no so much different except for Google Maps in Santiago because that app has saved me many times. Also it helps me being connected with the things of the university and my profession.

Why did I choose this career?

I chose journalism because I think it is a very diverse career and it fulfills many of my interests.

When I was little I was watching television with my family and the people who read the news seemed very interesting and especially intelligent because I thought that everything they were reading was because they knew about it, not that it was a teamwork, reporting and things of the “real life”.

In 2015 I was studying Sociology in the Universidad de Concepción for one year and I left the career because I didn’t feel comfortable with the focus of the career’s program because this was so much methodological and I didn’t want to be an investigator.

I would like to work in a magazine, I love the written journalism. My experience in Santiago has been nice in general and very rewarding in my career.

Rivera's story

Paula Margarita Rivera Carreño, born on February 26^th 1997 in Iquique, north of the country. Daughter of Héctor, a policeman and María Eugenia, a teacher. She lived in Iquique just for 10 months and then in Cartagena for 2 years. All the family, arrived to Chillán in 2000. She studied whole primary school in Chillán Viejo at San Buenaventura school. Later on, she continued her secondary education in Chillán at the Purísima Concepción school, a catholic school just for ladies.

In 2015, she decided studied Sociology at the Universidad de Concepción in Campus Concepción but after that, she left that career. And in 2016 she arrived to journalism in the Universidad de Chile.

Nowadays Paula lives with her best friend in Santiago Centro and enjoys her time writing in Revista Bello Público and riding a bike.