1. I have a dream to
become the world leading figure in Bio-medical Engineering. There is a bit of a
special reason how I have come to the my decision to become a Bio-medical
engineer. As I have been interested in biology, especially medical field, since
I was young I have always presumed that my only option was to become a doctor
and help others in a medical way, but one day a question suddenly struck me.
"Are doctors really the ones that cure people?" After some amount of
pondering it became clear that doctors are not the ones who actually invent the
ways to cure people,but are merely the ones that follow the standard protocols.
Then who creates such cures? Researching further, I came across the field of
bio-engineering and realized that this was it, the thing that I have always
wanted to pursue. And this have been my dream ever since.
2.I was born in March 14th, 1997 or typically known
as pi day. I'm not sure for overseas, but in Korea we call this day "White
Day" which exists because Koreans cannot bear being unfair. They say White
Day is the opposite of Valentine Day, a day where a girl gives the boy a chocolate,
not the vice versa, odd.
3.I have a older brother who have graduated from
KMLA(16th Wave). He acted and still acts like a pulling rope, a guide for me.
Probably the very reason I got to know this isolated school in the first place.
Interestingly, I never really had a big fight with my brother, contradictory to
the stories that I heard from my friends. Although many say that our personalities
are completely different, I really get along well with my brother and really
count on him very much.
4.I absolutely love listening music, though I'm not good
at both singing and playing them. I really don't have a particular taste for the
genre of music, I love basically everything from Babymetal to EDM. My taste in
music kind of rotates periodically, I kind of get really into one particular
genre of music, dig it for several weeks, get bored and move on. Right now I'm
really into one indie band called "The 1975", especially songs; The
city, chocolate. Great songs.
5. My all time favorite book is still the Harry Potter
series. When I was in middle school I think that I read the whole series six
times? In the end I became even tired to flipped the pages that I bought a CD
that is basically the recorded version of the book and listened to it endlessly
through my Walkman, to the verge of actually memorizing chunks of the books at
a time. It was later the I learned that the different voices for each
characters in the CD was actually made by one person.
6. Extending upon the entertainment part, my favorite
movie is the Matrix series. I've watched the whole series again just a few days
ago and I found out that I have totally missed the bigger picture previously.
It really explores deeply into the concept of what is real and the difference
between human and machine. One quote that I like from the movie is " To
deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human."
Who knows, we might be living in a "Zion" of our own, destined to be
destroyed and rebuilt every hundred years.
7. They say that biologists really needs to live old.
The reason for this is because looking at it from the empirical perspective it
is usually 30~40 years after the biologists' claims that these claims are
accepted by the science society and able to receive the Nobel Prize. Apparently
the Nobel Prize only cares about people who are alive. Well that's one more
reason to live longer.
8. Out of all the variety of sports that I have experience
the one that really have impacted me is Ice Hockey. Because Ice Hockey is kind
of a minor sports category in Korea, I was actually given the opportunity to
make my living through Ice Hockey in elementary and middle school. It was the
only sport that I went into some kind of special training camp with my other teammates
for three weeks at a time and trained until the every drop of water seemed to
seep out of my body. It really was a great experience for me and certainly
going to start it again after graduating.
9. My own way to ignore when others are nagging to me
is to imagine that I throw a really elastic ball into the wall and imagine where
the ball would bounce to. Through my experience, the nagging was usually over
before my 10th lap around the room.
10.One of the
great hobby that I was able to find in KMLA was going off to camping. All
through my life the concept or the actual idea of going camping in Korea never occurred
to me, even though it is said that the 70% of South Korea is filled with
mountains. Anyway, it was the most remedying experience I went through last
year.
11.Talking about camping, when I was living in New Zealand
I participated in a two week camp program managed by the YMCA. In that program
there was a project to build out own house in the forest with minimum materials.
Me along with my friends miserably failed and ended up sleeping on the forest's
bare ground. It was okay, before I woke up in the middle of the night and found
a sheep looking down on me.
12. It was only when I came to KMLA that people said
that I look like a bear. Especially the one that comes out of Jungle Book.
Hearing that statement for three years now, I'm beginning to believe in myself
that I look like one.
13.I really have a very easily distracted mind. My
friends in middle school even said that I look like a person with ADHD.
Although, I think I am able to concentrate intensely and quickly, but only
shortly. After that I lose focus and drifts away to look for something else to do.
Even when playing computer games I easily get bored with the particular types
of games and move on to another.
15. My favorite color is brown. There is really no
particular reasons that I could put into words in my liking for brown, but I
think it is probably because it is appropriately dark but not too dark and
somewhat the color gives me peace when looking at it.
16. I once learned and knew how to place three
different instruments. Two of them violin and piano are long gone and forgotten
from my mind. The last one, which is the most recent, clarinet is stilling
cling in the back of my head.
17,As much as my dream to become a bio-medical
engineer is important, traveling is one of the most important factor to me. My
dream is to accumulate enough wealth as soon as I can and spend the rest of my
life traveling, virtually everywhere around the globe.
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18, My favorite
dish is Fish n' Chips. I basically used to eat at least three times a week when
I was living in New Zealand. But I never got to see one in Korea.
19. I used to live in New Zealand for 19months. I went
to a public school called St. Paul's, Christchurch. If anyone can remember,
there was a huge earthquake in New Zealand several years ago and I hear that
the school collapsed by that impact(they say they rebuilt the collapsed
buildings again).
20. I had two best friends in New Zealand. Their name
was Alex and Harrison. It was through them that I was introduce to the world of
sleepover. I used to contact them for a long time, but now it's kind of
stopped.
21. I sleep with my eyes half open. Some say it is kind
of freaky. I have no idea why I sleep with my eyes open, maybe it is just the
way it is. Due to this my eyes are always a bit dry and easily get tired and
red.
22. Another peculiar thing about my eyes it that I have
a huge dot(?) in my eye. Everyone has a small dots on their eyes, they are just
not noticeably big. My dot is just bigger and has some kind of reddish color. It
has become some kind of a routine to explain this fact to every new person I
meet.
23.My grandmother is a daughter of separatist would
fought against the Japanese imperialism. So that makes my grand grandfather a separatist.
My grandmother receives supplement from the government annually for this very
fact.
24.I have been in the Civilian Control Zone, near 5km
from North Korea. I was surprised to know that quite a lot of people live in
this zone. It really does have a spectacular view.
25. I really do have absurd thought and things to say
in my mind, but I think I am just afraid or conscious of my surroundings to
really express and take about them aloud. Or maybe this is normal for
everybody.
26. My best choice for club activity in KMLA is going
into Rhyme Factory. I never learned how to dance in my life and never really
had any confidence in it. Going into this club and participating actively in
it, although it was frustrating to keep up with practices that ignores lunch and
dinner time, was valuable not only in expressing myself and resolving stresses
but also sharing a close bond between seniors(16, 17th wave) and the
juniors(19th wave).
27. I definitely love human company. I feel that it is
always better to spend time with other people rather than spending it by
myself. However, as I am growing older I do kind of feel that people really do need
some time for themselves.
28.My favorite chocolate bar is Twix. I find Sneakers
to stuffy and Hersey to milky. Not to mention the other Korean crappy
chocolates. Twix I find has the perfect balance between sweetness, creamy and crunchiness
just the way I want it.
29.I have actually fainted once. How I came to faint
is really hilarious. I was playing in a science lab and found a whole gas tank
of helium in the corner. I filled the balloon with the helium and drank the gas
to make the high pitched voice. I was disappointed to find that the high pitch
didn't last long. So in my greediness I drank so much gas that I lost the
oxygen supply and passed out. In that split second I could see my life flashing
by in my head.
30. I have no religion. It's not that I don't believe
in any sort of god, but it is that I just don't have a fixed religion to
pursue.
31.I have always wanted to learn how to glass blow. It
really is fascinating seeing the masters create works of arts from the hot dump
of glass. I hope to attain the opportunity to learn it in the future.
32. I sometimes ponder how my life would be like if I
was not born in South Korea. Born somewhere in France, Germany, US, etc..
