Personal Experience: My Experience As A Student

I am a MOVING girl. Nothing can constrain me to sit in one place. When I was 13, I moved to a city that is sixty-two kilometers away from my parents to continue my secondary schooling. In high school, instead of paying all my attention to studying well at school, I spent my time working as a volunteer in a youth club for social work in the province and concurrently running several campaigns and events in school for students as well. At the end of high school, when my friends got snowed under test banks for the university entrance exams, I got a job as a barista in a beautiful coffee shop. One week after the entrance exam ended and while everyone was relaxing, I bought a ten-hour train ticket to Ho Chi Minh City, to get a job as an interpreter

I have been looking forward to experiencing UCM unique method of study “Problem-based learning” (PBL). To me, education is like cooking and the fact in text books is like food recipe. One may read a recipe for several times; however, to actually master a dish, he needs to study the recipe well and practice time over time. Facts in textbook require us to remember, not to understand, while the long-term and practical knowledge does; and the only way to turn the facts into knowledge, is practicing and applying it to the reality. At UCM, PBL will provide me a chance to fulfill that expectation: go outsides and do my research on the real cases and consequently develop a full understanding of various issues. But the best thing about PBL is that everyone in the group can express their opinions on the cases, no matter how unusual and strange they are, which not only enables students to develop a multidimensional knowledge but also opens several new approaches to the

While I had to struggle with improving soft skills on my own in the past, I will grasp an opportunity to study these skills through courses such as Argumentations, Research Methods and Preparing Conference in a logical and systematic way as studying in UCM. Subsequently, after graduating from UCM, I will be well-equipped with both knowledge and stable fundamentals of soft skills, which turns out to be my upper hand over my future competitors. Furthermore, the active and energetic academic environment that UCM brings to its students is ideal for a moving girl like me to develop. As school time is not much, I will have more time for self-study, group-study and life discovery. Reading study materials in library, preparing for the representations, researching real cases with enthusiastic and talented friends, joining numerous academic arguments held by Universalis and taking part in social and cultural activities have always been on my mind when I envision my life in