The first time I went to high school, I felt like a soldier being transferred to the frontline as I was a novice to the school.I prioritized grades and extracurricular activities over friendship. However, my mind changed as soon as I met other friends. Everyone was so passionate about helping each o
Just about two weeks ago, I became a junior in high school. Being a junior is a totally different feeling than a sophomore year because college applications are getting very close, and I have to care more about academics, including the SAT. SAT stands for Scholastic Assessment Test, and the majority
In February of 2020, the teacher assigned the students in my Computer Science class at Seoul Scholars International to create a melody using a website called Earsketch. We were to apply the coding skills and functions that we had learned over the last quarter. The project was meaningful in that it c
Seoul Foreign School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school hence there are required programs such as the Personal Project (PP), Theory of Knowledge (TOK), Extended Essay (EE), and Creativity Action and Service (CAS) that must be fulfilled within the 4 years of high school. Being a sophomore,
During the midterm season a few weeks ago, I witnessed two types of students: students who procrastinate, and students who don’t. Some of my peers claimed that they had other work that was overwhelming them during the exam season, which left them with no choice other than to procrastinate. Others sa
While I was FaceTiming my friend, who moved to Korea a few months ago, I was curious about how Korean public schools and international schools are different. So, I decided to interview my friend, Siyeon Lee. She went to Dongshin Elementary School (Korean public school) from grades 1 to 5. She then m
With the unprecedented pandemonium brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have entered a new era referred to as the “New Normal.” At this transformational point in time, the world is experiencing challenges and instability due to the rapid transition from the former status quo. Because of these change
As the notorious COVID-19 has emerged in many nations, the World Health Organization has been thrust into the spotlight more than ever. This year of 2020, the WHO bears the burden of not only discussing the general agendas such as supporting open healthcare, but also driving the change against the w
Before I started coding, I vaguely assumed that it was too difficult and boring. Today, I would say that this is definitely not true as coding has become one of my all time favorite passion. For those who may not know, coding is “the process of designing and building an executable computer program t
Since completing the Children’s Rights Advocacy Program of the International Child Rights Center earlier this year, I have been wondering what I could do with the knowledge I learned from the program. Having consulted with a mentor from the organization, I was able to come up with the idea of organi
The moment we get out of bed, we are flooded by ads, from ads that we pass by without paying much attention to ads that captivate us and make us buy whatever is advertised. There are commercial ads that tell us about the advantages of a product and public ads that highlight the advantages of a parti
Attending a new school, adjusting to a new environment and meeting new people, is always challenging for a student. Now imagine being a senior and in quarantine for two weeks at a new school on top of these challenges, and you have the perfect recipe for disaster. But this was my reality, I was, as
The Tiger Global Case Competition (TGCC), in partnership with Tiger Global Management, Crimson Education, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, challenges high school students around the world to develop their creativity and problem-solving techniques as young entrepreneurs. In this high school business case
After two short months of summer break, it’s now time to go back to school. The end of the last school year was quite hectic for most students as they suddenly had to switch to a virtual world of online school, and everyone seemed to have believed that school was finally going to go back to normal d
As a member of the NGO “Hope to the Future,” I had an opportunity to visit the United Nations New York headquarters in January of 2020. Even before the start of the tour, my heart pounded, and I was more than excited to meet the ambassadors working at the United Nations.The Hope to the Future in New
It was a brisk afternoon in January 2020 in New York City. After a brief bus ride through the roads of Harlem, I got off in front of the Butler Library of Columbia University and waited – half anxious, half excited – for the college tour to start. Long flights and jetlag had me sleepless
The Business Black Box (BBB) Competition is a business strategy competition run by the Wharton Korea Undergraduate Business Society (Wharton KUBS), a student-run organization at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). The organization is dedicated to serving as a bridge between UPenn and Korea by or
In early 2020, most of the summer programs that I have applied to during the winter holidays announced their application status. As a student with a passion for theatre, I applied to numerous summer programs related to theatre or media. Fortunately, I was accepted to the programs that I applied for.
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.” Despite the convincing quote, psychology is a subject that is commonly shown as a fraudulent, yet referential field of science. When I say psychology, it is likely that many people consider psychology a
During the last week before the new academic year, my family and I visited Ganghwado for a much-needed “refresher” vacation. Ganghwado is well known as the site of many important events in Korean history, from ancient to modern times, as evident from its famous Buddhist temples and churches. In 2019