It's that time of the semester when students are scrambling into the library, pulling all nighters. Yup, it is mid-term week at KAIST. As soon as you walk into the library, you can smell the coffee beans! There are no seats in the library and if you are ever so unlucky as to sneeze, you get about 5 evil stares. It is dead silent in the library with the occasional sound of page turning. The atmosphere is pretty intense here and I mainly think because the students are on a ranking system. So after every exam, students are ranked from highest score to the lowest score and this list is posted on the bulletin board. And no one wants to end up dead last on the list. So it is VERY competitive here at the moment. You can literally cut the tension with a knife.
This makes me reflect on my experiences at Pepperdine where instead of competition, collaboration is encouraged. After all, when one finally enters the work force, isn't it a collaborative team effort in order to produce results? Hmmmm, but then again, competition is a huge external factor in any business. So I guess in all aspects, there are pros and cons to each school structure.
As a result this week, my blog is short and sweet. I mainly want to let everyone know that I have been pretty much studying all week. After all, I am here as a representative student from Pepperdine and I do not want to disappoint and end up with the lowest test score. So with this, I say farewell, and back to hitting the textbooks. :)
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