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What motivated you to take this class and how has the experience been so far?I once read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, which sparked my interest in Japanese literature. I also heard that this course was quite a piece of cake, so I had to apply for this class.We haven’t started reading Japanese lit
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Hyunseung Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2024.04.23 22:10
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Why did you choose to take this course? I decided to take this course because there were many good reviews about it. People were praising this course for providing the opportunity to freely express their opinions on different issues. Even if the topic is sensitive or controversial, you can speak you
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Ospanova Rozaliya Junior Staff Reporter
2024.04.23 22:10
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Why did you choose this course?I have always had an interest in management and economics. However, Korean high schools focus too much on major subjects and offer extremely limited and shallow economics classes. Naturally, when I found out that KAIST offered an economics class, I had to apply for it.
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Hyunseung Lee Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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How has this course influenced your understanding of Korean history as you look through films of the time compared to academic and historical learning?Apart from the obvious fact that the movies are much more entertaining and captivating for most people, including me, to learn about Korean history,
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Afridi Muhammad Khubaib Alam Junior Staff Reporter
2024.03.23 00:49
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Q: What motivated you to take this course?I'm an avid fan of Veritasium's thought-provoking content. After being left perplexed and intrigued by his skillful explanation of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, I scoured the internet hoping to find an answer. When I found out that KAIST offers a course ex
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Francis Erluph Barro Cabanting Junior Staff Report
2023.12.19 00:37
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What initially inspired you to take the course? What were your expectations going in, and has the course met your expectations?I was inspired to take the course mostly because I have always loved music, especially jazz. It’s a great course covering the history, essence, and metamorphosis of jazz, st
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Alazar Teka Gemechu Junior Staff Reporter
2023.12.19 00:37
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Q: Why did you choose to take this course?A: To begin with, I have always desired to be a learned person, and I believe rigorous training in reading, thinking, and writing is the key to achieving this goal. However, I had been lacking such training, especially given the STEM-focused education I had
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Sung-Bin Park Junior Staff Reporter
2023.11.19 16:38
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What inspired you to take this course and what captivated your interest the most?A: I have always been very interested in the many ways we use language, how we speak in a certain way, and how languages evolve and change with culture. At first, I was more interested in the more "objective" parts of l
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.11.19 16:38
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Q: What inspired your decision to choose this specific humanities course? A: I enrolled in Philosophy of Mathematics under the esteemed guidance of Professor Woosuk Park, and my decision was rooted in a fusion of practicality and genuine intrigue. On a pragmatic level, I had been informed by fellow
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Alazar Teka Gemechu Junior Staff Reporter
2023.10.13 21:19
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Q: What motivated you to take this course?A: To be frank, I took the course because I want to further expand my knowledge in the Humanities and apply these practicalities in scientific research. I already have five years’ worth of a background — I like psychology and have also taken Introduction to
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Francis Erluph Barro Cabanting Junior Staff Report
2023.10.13 21:19
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Q: Why/What made you decide to create this course and choose this specific topic?A: New technologies have changed the world in many ways, mostly in the direction of making human life better. However, many new technologies also lead to problems and issues. Technology such as human cloning and mind up
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Balsam Al-Hadithi Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:41
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Q: How do you think the mandatory humanities courses at KAIST (Korean 3 & 4) impact your education and future goals?The impact of Korean language courses on education and future goals depends on the individual students’ motivations and goals. Some students perceive these as mandatory, while others h
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Sung-Bin Park Junior Staff Reporter
2023.09.25 16:41
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As a Korean/international student, what do you think of current relations between Korean and international students in KAIST? Is there anything you would want to do to approach the other party? I think that right now each group keeps to themselves and no particular group is to blame. Student festiva
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S. Aow, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid, E. Jeong
2023.06.12 07:05
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Share a personal achievement or milestone you reached during this semester, whether academic, personal, or extracurricular. How did you celebrate or acknowledge this accomplishment, and what did it mean to you? My best accomplishment this semester was getting used to being a KAIST student. It is not
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S. Aow, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid, E. Jeong
2023.06.12 07:05
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I do think stricter kickboard regulations should be enforced for the safety of the students. Some regulations to check whether the riders are wearing helmets at all times would be crucial to prevent serious accidents. Also, I think that educating [and] reminding students on potential safety issues m
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S. Aow, E. Jeong, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid
2023.05.21 16:23
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No, I don’t think KAIST should teach “life skills” as a part of the curriculum because I think they are things that you learn individually from your family or by yourself, not as a course. I think the advantage of the curriculum in KAIST is that it specializes, and excels, in engineering and technol
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S. Aow, E. Jeong, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid
2023.05.21 16:23
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If you catch a falling cherry blossom by chance, what will you wish for?As we are embracing the beauty of spring that will soon drift away, I wish that every time spring returns, my loved ones would be showered with blessings and receive an abundance of love in their lives. (Zu Ern Ng, Department of
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E.G.Jeong, J.B Espia, S. Aow
2023.04.14 14:34
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General Chemistry I, because it isn't required for my major and would just be a waste of time. (Anonymous) I think I would remove General Physics I and II. The syllabus of both courses comprise topics which I had already learned in high school, and I believe that I could've used the time I spent com
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S. Aow, E. Jeong, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid
2023.03.27 00:02
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My new semester’s resolutions might differ from the average KAIST student considering I’m an exchange student here for just the semester. With this, I would say that one would obviously be to do well in my classes, which depends on the effort I’m putting in. Another would be to successfully explore
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S. Aow, E. Jeong, J.B. Espia, M.F. Zahid
2023.03.27 00:02
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SPARCS is a software development club. More recently, it has been focusing on hardware as well. SPARCS is responsible for maintaining existing services such as OTL Zabo, as well as developing new services like the recently launched taxi carpool service, taxi.sparks.org. SPARCS is constantly branchin
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Evy Eun Hwangbo Junior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:44