But what is it really like to depend on this site for , Análisis Matemático , or Introducción al Pensamiento Científico ? Let’s break it down. What is it? El Rincón del Vago (The Vagabond’s Corner) is a file-sharing website where students upload summaries ( resúmenes ), past exams ( parciales resueltos ), monographs, and complete study guides. For UBA, it’s organized by faculty (FADU, FCE, Derecho, Exactas, etc.) and by CBC materia. The Good (Why every UBA student has it bookmarked) 1. The Survival Kit for the CBC The first year of UBA is notoriously a filter. Professors assign 400-page PDFs and expect you to extract three key ideas. El Rincón condenses that. Need a 10-page summary of El Príncipe by Maquiavelo for Sociedad y Estado ? It’s there. Need the solved exercises for Análisis from a specific chair (cátedra)? Probably there.
This is critical. At UBA, the same subject (e.g., Economía ) has 10 different cátedras (García, Ferullo, etc.). A summary from Cátedra García is useless for Cátedra Ferullo. El Rincón allows you to filter by professor. If you find a summary for your professor, you have struck oil.
On mobile, the site is almost unusable. Pop-ups, fake “Download” buttons that lead to viruses, and redirects. You need the patience of a saint and an ad-blocker. It feels like navigating a 2005 cybercafé.