Humanities...

This week, our dear Faculty of Sciences and Humanities had been commemorating its 76^th anniversary of foundation, and they decided to do it by performing different activities throughout the week at the cinema theater. They called it “The week of humanities”, a name that for me, was really beyond from reality.

I must admit, excitement wasn’t the first thing I felt when the notice of obligated attendance was said, but being part of the university activities is one of my responsibilities as a student. So even if I didn’t want to go, there I was, on a Monday without having slept at all, standing in the middle of a crowd of students who didn’t fit inside the small building where they expected to have us all. Students and teachers, witnessed the poor organization of the event, since a small theater that did not have the capacity to hold the hundreds of students who were forced to go, to teachers who didn't even show up without prior notice, and others making us participate at times that did not correspond to our class time, making us waste time, money and patience.

Long story short: the activity was a mess.

And was then when I wondered: Are we really celebrating 76 years of the “HUMANITIES” faculty? Because it didn’t seem like that, at all. Over the years, as a student of this faculty, I’ve realized the precariousness of it, and how far we are from achieving what it professes. Seventy-six years are not enough for the Humanities faculty to demonstrate a shred of humanity to students, apparently. It simply amazes me that our faculty is the most backward and abandoned of the entire university, when it should be one of the most progressives.

But this doesn’t happen only in our faculty, or in our university. It happens everywhere, in our world, in our society. Every day we proclaim that we have advanced as a society, that we are no longer the same as a century ago, but in reality we are very far from being humanistic people. We lack of values, of empathy. We are becoming more and more robotic and cold, leaving our humanity behind. And maybe 76 years have not been enough to change, maybe we will need another 76 more.