Today, I'' ll be doing&a Q&A video clip– my very first one. I'' m kind of late to the game in presenting myself, but ideally, this video clip addresses a few of the inquiries you had for me, and also you can learn more about me a little better. So last week, I asked you men to send me some concerns on Instagram, and also mixed in there are additionally simply typical questions I'' ve gotten on my videos. Without additional trouble, allow'' s get begun. The very first question I obtained was concerning my age. I'' m twenty years old, I was birthed in 2002, and also I'' m currently a student in university. What is my elevation? I'' m 166 or 167 cm, so I ' m somewhere between 5 ' 5 and also 5 ' 6. What is your ethnic background, and also where are you from? My ethnic background is Oriental, and I'' m likewise originally from Korea. I was born and also elevated there and went to grade school there until 4th quality. And afterwards I transferred to the united state in 2013 when I was 10 years old. So as of 2023, I'' ve lived precisely one decade in Korea as well as ten years in the U.S.What is my
MBTI? I'' m an INTJ. I first evaluated in intermediate school due to the fact that we were doing it as a course, and at that time, I also got INTJ. And also out of interest, I took the test on my very own each year, and I'' ve been getting INTJ each and every single time, which is type of interesting. Are you solitary? Yes, I'' m single. What do you do in your downtime? I actually like doing things with my hands like making precious jewelry and also minis. So those are things like bead rings, lockets, as well as clay sculptures. I additionally used to draw and also repaint a lot back in secondary school, yet it'' s been more difficult to do in college as a non-art significant, So what I'' ve been doing mainly now is electronic art. I publish concerning my art work on Instagram once in a while, so if you wish to be up to day with what I'' m finishing with art, you can examine that out on my Instragram! What electronic camera as well as editing applications do you make use of? Virtually all of my videos are shot on my phone cam, as well as I make use of a Motorola phone.I ' m an extremely devoted android individual when it concerns phones, so I wear'' t assume that ' ll adjustment anytime soon. I do keep in mind for the first 2 or 3 vlogs I uploaded, I did use my papa ' s DSLR that I obtained. However video clips after those are practically solely shot on my phone. For editing and enhancing, I utilize Last Cut Pro. I got it as a part of this education and learning bundle. There was an actually good trainee discount rate, so I determined to get it while I can as a pupil. If you'' re simply beginning out or looking to get right into modifying, I would extremely advise doing the free trials that every one of these apps supply, and see what jobs for you, what'' s the most intuitive and user friendly. Why did you pick your significant? This past semester, I proclaimed neuroscience as my major. I would state there are 2 important things that made me pick neuroscience, the first being my personal passion. I'' ve always been fascinated by the mind as well as the mind, and I always appreciated biology, so it seemed like a quite natural choice for me.The second factor is a lot more functional in that I intend on going to medical institution after basic, and also the program needs for this significant aligned actually well with what med schools were seeking. So, it was a rather appealing selection for me. How did you get involved in universities, and how did you wind up at Harvard? To offer you a short, compressed variation of the response for the purpose of time, I would certainly claim storytelling and good luck. I did function truly hard in secondary school to get competitive ratings and GPA, but I'' m sure a great deal of other candidates to the very same colleges had rather similar statistics. I assume scores and also numbers can just get you thus far, and also past that, you do need that extra ✨ spice ✨ in your application. That, for me, I think was narration. So, I essentially picked like 2 to 3 things that I truly delighted in as well as was efficient to weave them into a gigantic narrative.For example, something I truly liked was music– I played viola and also did band– as well as another thing I suched as was creating. So what I would certainly do is try to locate overlaps in between music and also writing, like the truth that both are like telling a tale and also a kind of self-expression. As well as after that, I would certainly kind of make that the main style or the skeletal system of my application, and after that include any type of various other information around that.In high institution, there ' s just truly so
lots of tasks as well as sports you can be doing, so what ' s important I think is to create your own signature mix of different tasks. This most definitely makes your application extra remarkable and likeable because there ' s a tale behind it. And also a related question I got was pointers for entering into Harvard and other careful universities. First of all, the college admissions procedure is very subjective, as well as I believe that ' s specifically the case for the institutions in the U.S. There ' s a lot of aspects that'go right into it, and just how much each aspect matters is different for every person, each reader.And there ' s just a lot of difficult things that are entirely out of our control and expectations.
Keeping that being claimed, I think it ' s essential to concentrate on the important things we can do, as well as transform things we can change, like the essay. By the time you ' re applying', you probably currently have your grade point average as well as test scores, so truly the only point you have in your control is the essay and how you kind of plan on your own, which I spoke about in the previous question. A related idea would be to do all the optional things they inform you to do.Sometimes, these institutions make use of complex language like “you can pick to send,” “if you want,” “supplement”– points like that.
They make it seem like these are truly optional, as well as when you ' re in the center of the grind “as well as creating your 10th “application, you could purchase right into that. However if you think of it, it ' s type of like a lure or one more examination virtually because it ' s simply another method for them to gauge exactly how interested and also invested you are to that school.So I would extremely highly recommend you do all the optional points. As well as these aren ' t always simply additional essays. It could also be something like video clip essays, I remember I did for Brown, or meetings, art supplements– points like that. Research suggestions! I previously published an in-depth video on study suggestions, so I ' ll be linking that down in the summary. Yet to include something I didn ' t consist of in that video, I understood that I research far better when I ' m type of cool and also starving. As well as take this with a grain of salt due to the fact that this absolutely is not for everyone; it ' s simply to say that you have to locate the optimal physical problem that places you in your best psychological state. Directly, when I ' m cozy and also comfortable, I have a tendency to obtain careless as well as quite charitable with myself. Yet if the room I ' m in is chilly, it ' s really hard for me to sleep and requires me to stay awake physically.When I ' m full, I'' ll most likely be in a food coma, so I ' m better off when I'' m a little starving. Generally, when I ' m cool as well as hungry. Yet the key words below is somewhat
since you never wish to push on your own also much. Tips for extracurriculars in secondary school! This is type of in extension of what I'' ve been saying previously, yet I would certainly state, do what you intend to do, yet try to make a tale and find a total purpose. It ' s a truly good concept to try whatever your freshman year,'and afterwards pare down to what you actually such as and wish to proceed doing in your sophomore and junior year.This method, you have a lot more energy and time to be seeking things you actually such as, and also this is mosting likely to make you much better at those things also. It ' s constantly frightening to quit something. I likewise struggled a great deal with releasing points in high school, also if it didn ' t exercise as well as objectively was not an excellent idea, just since of that'label of being a quitter. Yet it ' s so much better to remove things that put on ' t job and focus on your own on things that really matter to you because you are, at the end of the day, someone and also a minimal quantity.And from the other side, wear'' t be scared to begin something new midway. For me, something I got in the center of high college was innovative writing. I did write previously, however it was mainly writing in my own journal, and'I had never believed about showing it to anybody else. And after that in my junior year, I took an English course where we did some imaginative writing, as well as we were urged to send our writings somewhere else. So with no assumption, I tried submitted some of my writings and they were accepted, surprisingly. Although this was quite late in my secondary school career, I understood that people in fact could take pleasure in and value what I ' m developing, and also creating became a big component of me and also what I performed in secondary school. I wear ' t think there ' s a magic number of extracurriculars or clubs or sporting activities that ' s far better than the rest.But I saw that focusing on typically 2 to 3 points functions out for lots of people. As well as this doesn ' t mean purely 2 to 3 clubs or sporting activities– you can be grouping various activities right into buckets. Like for music, you might be playing an
instrument, yet additionally researching music concept and also offering to do at assisted living facility, things like'that. So, in a sentence: try whatever at first, and be bold in removing points that don ' t exercise and including new things that you really like. What were your secondary school stats(SAT, ACT, as well as GPA)? I was a little reluctant about speaking about my ratings and stats prior to due to the fact that I do think they are a pretty private part concerning me. Yet I bear in mind in'high college when I was putting on colleges myself, I would also search for what people ' s scores were on-line, on youtube, for criteria. So in hopes of being a comparable resource, I ' ll leave mine here.The statistics I submitted were 4.0 unweighted grade point average, 4.8 heavy GPA, and also 36 composite for ACT, and I assume I had one 35 in the failure in among the sections. I ' m uncertain if SAT subject tests are still a point, but I did it my year, and I did Biology M and also Mathematics Degree II and also obtained 800s.
A few of you were additionally wondering exactly how several times I took the examinations, and I took them as soon as in junior year. AP vs IB, and which programs did you take? Our senior high school only provided'AP, so that ' s what I did. My college supplied a whole number of various AP programs, and also the ones I took were: AP united state background, European history, Spanish language and also society, English language, English literature, Physics C E&M( likewise technicians), chemistry, biology, federal government, statistics, calc BC, and also macroeconomics. And after that in junior year, I likewise self-studied AP songs theory and took the examination on my very own. How do you take care of social life, academics, and also individual life in college? If you asked me the very same inquiry last year, I would most likely have claimed sleeping less.But this semester, I was definitely much better at stabilizing my life. And the majority of it is because I learned to utilize my devices and sources to my benefit. Two of the applications that actually conserved my ass were Idea as well as Google schedule. I record every thing I need to do and also participate in on these 2 systems, and it really maintains from going crazy as well as pressures me to totally everything I have to do since they ' re right before my eyes on my phone and also computer– all my gadgets. The crucial point is to discover a long-term organization approach that really benefits you and also something that you feel comfy logging and also making use of on a daily basis. As well as not regularly being under the pressure of having the first trifecta, the excellent balance, additionally is truly practical for me. There ' s definitely weeks where my life is dominated by the social elements, and there ' s also weeks in my life where I ' m simply in the collection doing job. So it actually depends on what the circumstance asks of me as well as attempting to exercise what I can handle myself. Favorite Oriental food! My favorite Korean food is 호박전, or zucchini pancakes.And I also actually like 순두부찌개, which is a tofu stew, and 짜장면, which is black bean noodles. Rate the food at Harvard. It certainly varies: it has its great days and also poor days. Yet I do think that the general agreement, among the undergrads at the very least, is that the dining hall food at Harvard isn ' t– isn ' t the very best contrasted to various other universities(and also exactly how
much it is$$ ). Directly, I put on ' t have difficulty with it. I type of like the dining hall food really. There ' s always at the very least one product on the food selection that I like in a given dish, however there are points that I do prevent. I remember there was this set terrible episode when I embraced supper eventually as well as they had'this blueberry-pork combination?? It was a plate of white pork and in addition to it, it was drenched in purple sauce and also blueberry pieces. which ' S where I attracted the line.But apart from that, it ' s been in fact rather great. Yet on the other hand, the desserts are actually great! I wear ' t assume I ' ve been dissatisfied by a single treat. What publication am I reading, what ' s my preferred publication, and also do you have any kind of book referrals? I ' m presently reading ' The Rings of Saturn, ' which I obtained as a Xmas gift for myself. I kind of got it because guide cover
is beautiful and also the ratings were outstanding, now that I ' m midway with it, I understood that it ' s an extremely demanding'book to read.You actually need to be involved because it ' s simple to shed track of what'' s taking place, as well as there ' s a great deal of particular historic things I have to look up. But the 'language is truly lovely, it ' s equated from German, as well as the entire thing kind of seems like a large dream, which is truly awesome. I have a pair of favorite publications, and the first one, I would state, is ' Almond ' by Sohn Won-pyung. It ' s a story regarding this child that has an impaired amygdala, which is'the emotional facility in the brain.So that'means he can ' t feel emotions or have compassion. And afterwards he fulfills this schoolmate who is the polar opposite of himself and is mad and also psychological constantly. And the tale is essentially regarding their relationship. I ' ve never ever wept for a book or a flick 'before', yet this, I was on the brink of splits in some minutes, and also for me, that ' s saying a lot. So if you sanctuary '
t inspected it out yet', I highly suggest this publication. I additionally suched as ' Klara and the Sun ' by Kazuo Ishiguro and also ' When Breath Becomes Air ' by Paul Kalanithi, which my buddy recommended to me, and also lastly, ' 밝은 밤 ' or ' Bright Night ' by Choi Eun-young. Favored flick! Some of my childhood flicks that I still love are ' Charlie and also the Delicious Chocolate Manufacturing facility ' and ' Castle in the Sky. ' I also enjoyed watching ' The Shape of Water ' and also ' Avatar. ' My favored tracks & musicians! They ' re always altering, but my preferred currently is ' Futile Instruments, ' which was a track from the film ' Phone call Me By Your Name. ' I ' ve additionally been paying attention to The Ache ' s ' Goo Goo Muck ' a whole lot nowadays– this is the one that ' s renowned as the Wednesday song.By the means, I absolutely enjoy that scene a lot, I currently recognize what I ' m gon na be this year'for Halloween, and also ideally already, I can actually find out the dance actions.' A person also asked me that my favorite 'k-pop artist is.' I'actually like Lee Su-hyun and TXT. There ' s 'this track by Lee Su-hyun called ' My Spring, ' this was I think also in the k-drama ' My Freedom Notes. ' It ' s a song that actually consoles me at the end of the day, I assume I pay attention to it at the very least once daily to be straightforward. Favorite k-dramas! I actually suched as ' My Freedom Notes, ' ' My Love From the Star, ' and ' Scarlet Fans. ' My favored youtubers/youtube networks! My preferred youtubers are Kaiti Yoo,' dobochobo, Yoo ' s appeal, deemd, eyol ', 몽중다과– there ' s a lot– moya mawhinney, and also Leah ' s fieldnotes. These makers seem to have a very cozy as well as real personality, and it ' s constantly a treat to enjoy their videos.Some of you guys were questioning 'what my future plans were', what I ' ll be doing after university. As I pointed out before, I ' m on the premed track as well as intend on mosting likely to med institution after undergrad. If we ' re speaking a much more lasting future or occupation, I intend to come to be a cosmetic surgeon. I enjoy making'points and also doing points with my hands specifically if it ' s something little and also elaborate, so integrated with my rate of interest in biology and medication, it ' s something I truly desire to carry out in the future. And while I'do the important things I currently like, I'' ll likewise reach make a distinction in various other individuals ' s lives, which would certainly be really purposeful. Specifically as of currently, otolaryngology, I ' m not exactly sure if I ' m saying this right, but head as well as neck surgical treatment, appears actually great and plastic surgical treatment too. Apart from medication, several of my other future goals would be attempting to live abroad, designing my own precious jewelry, making up motion picture songs– different independent tasks like that.Do you have any type of Brand-new Year ' s resolutions? To sum it all up in one sentence, it ' d be to reduce down my life. The previous year has been a great deal of hustle for me, as well as I'acknowledge that a specific quantity of hustle benefits me and my profession, however I intend to discover to kick back at times as well as make the effort to show and videotape better this year. One point specifically I desire to obtain into is skincare. Some of my bestest buddies are real skincare masters
, and also I intend to take after a little more.I did improve a little in 2014, like starting to place lotion and also sun block on my face each day, yet I definitely intend to take better treatment of my skin as well as myself in basic this year. How do you obtain out of a rut? When I sense that I ' m entering into a downturn, I stop whatever I ' m doing, and also I literally just crinkle up in my bed. If I try to do anything to repair it, it typically winds up being disadvantageous, so I simply make the effort to acknowledge my feelings and give myself not only a physical yet a psychological break. What I do mostly is keep still as well as not let myself do anything up until I ' m so bored, until I ' m at the state of monotony that is unbearable, and after that slowly come back into my regular, utilizing this monotony as a driving pressure, ironically.Instead of requiring myself to do function regularly and presume all duty, I believe it ' s truly vital for me to accept my constraints and also what is realistic before I can recoup. And also often, I just write. I open a page or a google doc and start composing whatever it is that comes to my mind and also exactly how I'' m sensation. When I'compose my issues down, I ' m sort of externalizing them, making them legitimate as well as even more of a fact to myself. This assists me brainstorm services if it '
s something that can have options, or consoles me at the least. But everybody, no issue who it is, what you do, is bound to be in a downturn eventually, and also if you take place to be because stage right now, you are totally not alone. Make certain you ' re respecting yourself, possibly heading out on a little solo day, treating on your own to your favored food, or anything else that makes you a little better. And also that ' s it for the Q&A today! I hope this addressed your concerns regarding me, as well as I currently really feel a great deal closer to you.Happy New Year, and I wish you have the very best beginning to 2023. Thanks, and also see you following time!.
