Walking towards powerfull small technology

It´s very hard to choose just one, or the most important piece of technology. Maybe there are many through my life, in different stages, I think.

When I was a kid, I remember listening to my music in vinyl player called LP mini component. In this time I heat milk with a kind of pot over the fire. Today we have the widely used Microwaves, and I heated my mug of milk in a minute.

Maybe the using of personal computer changed my student life. Made the researching and talking to anybody around the world really possible thanks to internet.

Other important change of technology was the cassete player to a DVD player.

And the changes go and on more quickly than years ago.

So, I think that the issue here is the saving of a large amount of information as possible. In that way, you can realize that the new pieces of technologies are smaller but more powerful saving a big amount of data and files that you use it diary.

Why did I choose my career?

I think that when I was very young, I really loved science as a philosophy of life. I still do! Finding the meaning of little things ever was a challenge to me. Then I had an encyclopedia where I looked for the subjects in a first approach of the theme.

But my liking was changing a little when I asked myself how to cure illnesses of the world. Thus, I focused my attention on some careers that work in this subjects. One of these, and maybe the most important, is studying pharmacy.

I know that biochemistry and pharmacy is the same career in some countries, but here in Chile are separated.

When I took the PSU test I finally chose Pharmacy at the School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Chile, but I think that I never could unite this liking with music, that is another great liking. Some people think that there is no relationship between pharmacy and music, but recently I´ve read an article talking about music as a way to develop many mental and somatic reactions, making music a kind of medicine. Maybe this is a kind of link between music and pharmacy. I still have to discover it!

Introducing my self

Rafael Riadi Mahias is the fourth of five kids of my parents. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, but my parents are Chilean. At the ´70 my father go to Brazil to find a better future for his wife and his 3 sons. They are my mom and my siblings that stay in Chile while my father settle down in São Paulo. After some years they reunited and live in Brazil where I born few months later!

I studied in school in Brazil and I finished my school studies in Chile. So, I have many friends in both countries. I begin my studies in Chile in Liceo A-67 Alexander Fleming, then I went to University of Chile to study Pharmacy at School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences.  

I always enjoy classical music too. My parents play the piano and I always wondered how beautiful will be to move my hands on the keyboard and play music. So my mom put me in piano classes with a very nice German lady.

Today I can say that I enjoy science and music in the same way, with passion and seriously.