Migration from Asia to Europe, two continents with a different culture, was the most significant event in my life, and my time in Switzerland taught me meaningful and unforgettable lessons. The new lifestyle and peoples behavior were greatly shocking but impressive, and it helped me to realize that my life in Korea, studying after school until late evening, was wrong. I learned how important building and keeping the good relationship between people is, and how I should always be altruistic without damaging myself. These experiences told me that I must never choose academic success by sacrificing the friendship with everyone else, hence I always spent enough time with my new friends regardless of the amount of work I had. I managed to attain satisfying grade while maintaining my relationship with others, and I strongly feel I made a right decision. Currently, I am highly interested in subjects related to technology and science, biology to be specific, and I have made many friends in my new school. I am very keen to go into the deeper study of these and develop a trust-based connection with others through my high school life.

I loved technology since I was very young, and I am pleased with the great opportunities and variety of choice I have to develop my technological skills through after-school activities provided by my new school. I am a member of activities like TechTinkers or TechXperts and I feel I have learned much over this year. Ive always enjoyed the challenge and the problems I faced when fixing different types of machinery, and I acquired new tricks every time I did a successful repair. I became more and more resilient as I grew up with different technologies, and I strongly believe this will be useful in my future, I will never give up without trying my best.

The first time I found science interesting was the beginning of grade 8 when I was hinted what exact things I will learn in the future. When I learned about respiration, I was astonished how thousands of cells work every time I breathe and when I learned about leaves, I was astounded by how every part of a small plant has different functions. As I move up to grade 9, move to UWCSEA, and start my IGCSE science, I was fascinated all the more by the attractiveness of biology. Over this year I learned about plants and human bodies, and now I am willing to learn about the future science, hence I decided to participate in NUS science camp, where I can learn about synthetic biology, DNA, and nanotechnology. I expect this totally new knowledge I will obtain to suggest me something, and I hope I will be able to decide on my major field of study.

However I will not neglect my friends because of these above, since I felt keenly the necessity of regular communication with old friends just before moving to Singapore. I had many friends in Switzerland, but I didnt hang out often after school with them, due to my foolish desire for academic success and unproductive activities. I rarely spent my leisure time with them, and I noticed its outcome after I left Switzerland, when I was in South Korea for a short period of time. Other than my two best friends, I have seldom talked to my fellows of the past and found it very wistful because I felt I lost my good friends who I spent three years with. However after I learned this lesson, and used it for my new school life, I contacted them with full of courage and managed to recover my friendship with many of them. I am gratified with this result and proud of what I have done. Now that I know courage is the most important thing for keeping a positive relationship with others, I will continue my journey of life with my friends all over the world.

Recently I am working on my poetry analysis before moving up to English A and I am absolutely delightful but anxious about my rewarding progress. I am glad how I can get more challenging and difficult lessons in English, which will help me with the three of my interests above. However I am also scared and worried if extra works will force me to ruin the relationship by my own hand, but I will learn a new lesson from that and work on making things better like I always do

Everyone in society uses social media these days for many purpose. Then,Is society too dependent on social media?

I have chosen this question as my final question because I thought it is highly important for the future. It was tough decision to make between this and”Can social media be replaced”, since it is also important for the future. However I thought the only answer for the second question was NO, hence I chose the first one that can be discussed. I personally think the society is very dependent on SM since it is being used by too many people due to its numerous different way of use: advertise, communication, etc.

During the conversation regarding this question, people should avoid these two logical fallacies: “Appeal to Emotion” and “Appeal to Nature”. If the emotion is engaged in the conversation, people are likely to argue using their personal opinion or feelings other than the truths or facts, and will affect the logic in bad way. One should not appeal to nature, since everyone’s nature can be different.

These articles helped me a lot with making a final decision. It gave me conviction that the first question was more important than another.