Daeil Overseas Studies Program (DOSP)

When you ask for teacher recommendations it is always a good idea to give them a sample resume so they can figure out what else they can add in your recommendation to give it more strength. It also helps the teacher get to know you.

It’s also good to give the sample resume to the university and keeping it updated as you go on throughout life.

If you have additional suggestions feel free to leave comments.

You can always find more information if you google it or naver it.

Sample College Resume

There is some controversy in dealing the the effectiveness of predicting college success with the SAT or other standardized tests. That is why their are some colleges that do not require them. Here is a brief list below:

Art Institute of California, LA
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA
DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA
Texas A&M Int’l University, Laredo, TX
University of Michigan, Flint, MI
University of Texas, Austin, TX

I have a more thorough list from my office compiled by the CollegeBoard please feel free and stop by.

Thanks to a colleague of mine from Chungshim International Academy. Here is another list of activities you can participate in, learn from, and also put down in your college application.

Mock Trial - Simulated jury case or bench case

Moot Court - Mock appellate court case

Model UN - Mock United Nations Meeting

Model Congress - Mock Congressional Meeting

E-Congress - An Internet Congress

International Thespian Society - For those interested in acting

Utah Shakespeare Festival - Shakespearean dramas, comedies, and melodies

Quill and Scroll Society - For future journalists

National Forensic League - Speech and Debate

Key Club International - International Volunteer Organization

You can always find more clubs or develop your own. I strongly encourage you to find something that excites you or are passionate about and stick with it.

I think there are a lot of corollaries between freelancing and being a student.

I encourage all of you to take the next step in your student out and think outside the box. In doing so you’ll make yourself more marketable to the universities you want to apply for.

In this article “10 Essential Steps To Get To The Top Of Your Field “ from Free Lance Switch dot Com. I encourage you to read through the whole article, but here is a brief summary:

Be the best, and someday others will be emulating you.

• Learn from the best. This means you can learn from the pros that you want to become or imitate those that are doing well in that particular subject.
• Read up. Reading and learning from others is vital if you want to be the best.
• Practice. The best way to get better, because actual experience is the best teacher.
• Get feedback. Ask for feedback, even if it’s hard to hear, get it- clear out the emotional stuff and look for genuine ways to improve.
• Analyze. Analyze yourself, but don’t over do it.
• Practice some more. Keep on working and trucking away one day you will persevere.
• Edit. It’s very important that you edit your wor, after all it’s a reflection of yourself.
• Focus. Focus on the task at hand, multi-tasking is paradox and completely ineffective.
• Experiment. Step outside and be different, who knows you may change the world.
• Reflect. Spend some time each day and figure out what you have learned and see what you can improve and where to focus.

I encourage you to write down and reflect on what you read if you want to absorb the information and learn from it. Now go read the real article.

You want to go to the United States and study. Why not get ahead with an online distance education course? If you don’t want to pay $10,000 to fly the US for a summer school program why not consider paying $600-1500 to study through the internet.

Benefits include:

• Study at prestigious universities with their professors and instructors
• Experience the rigor of the curriculum and collegiate education
• Start your college transcript while you are in high school

I would argue this may be better than taking Advanced Placement exams, although there are pros and cons for each.

Here are some of the places you can study at:

• Harvard Extension Distance Education
• (UCB) University of California at Berkeley Extension
• (SUNY) State University of New York Online

If you don’t want to pay but listen to college courses online for free you can always check here.

Note: Just because you can enroll in their online courses does not mean you can get admitted to their schools for undergraduate degrees.

Please feel free to come speak with me if you are interested in doing this. Also if you happen to know any more first tier distance education courses for credit please comment below.

I strongly encourage reading. You should preferably read something you are interested in. It doesn’t matter what you read, just read something! Eventually you’ll learn how to filter out the noise and focus on the small nuggets of gold in the books you read.

If you don’t have time to go to the library or the bookstore and you don’t mind reading on your computer or printing it out.

You can go here to get free pdf ebooks.

You can find such classics as:

•  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Aesop’s Fables -Aesop
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

And much, much more.

In my classes I try to use a consistent standard for grading papers and essays. Due to the fact that I need to help my students score well on the writing section of the SAT. I try to use a similar metric to what the teachers who grade the essays would use. The SAT essay is scored by two teachers on a 1-6 scale, meaning a total of 12. There are several other critiera out there but this is the one I am currently using:

If you look at the score you get and divide it by two, that’s my prediction on what you would get on the SAT writing essay.

Mind Petals is a website to connect entrepreneurs all over the world. It provides a lot of good information for all of you budding businessmen and women.

They provide a range of tips and suggestions that I highly encourage all DOSP students to do. It will help you develop as a person and  leader- Which I hope you know that one day you WILL be.

There are two parts to the post here is a brief bullet point form of them, but I encourage you to read the full article about Public Speaking.

• KISS - Keep it simple silly
• Throw away your notes
• Tell a story
• Control the audience
• Move around
• Eye contact is crucial
• Smile
• Finish strong

I think these are all very good tips, if you haven’t implemented these in your public speaking I highly encourage you to do so.

As a teacher, I want all of my students to continually learn and improve their writing. I am always trying to improve all aspects of my life especially my writing.

That’s why I’ve posted the RSS widget “Daily Writing Tips” in the sidebar. Please look at it occassionally and learn something new.

You can find tons of writing websites on the internet. This is just one I read frequently.

Here is another list of words that you guys may. This list is from the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionary. You can find the original article here at Houghton Mifflin.

I’ll give anyone extra credit if they can give definitions for each and type it in the comments.

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious

lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat

Update: JB Yun has sent me a list of definitions. I’m very proud of him. I’ve posted the list below:

Abjure: 1.to renounce under oath. 2.to recant solemnly 3.to give up, abstain from.

Abrogate: to abolish or annul esp. by authority.

Abstemious: exercising self-restraint in appetites or behavior.

Acumen: accuracy & keenness of judgement or insight

Antebellum: of the period before the American Civil War.

Auspicious: 1.favorable, propitious. 2.successful, prosperous

Belie: 1.to misinterpret or disguise. 2.to show to be false. 3.to be counter to; contradict

Bellicose: warlike in manner; belligerent

Bowdlerize: to expurgate for prudish reasons.

Chicanery: 1.deception by trickery. 2.a trick, subterfuge.

Chromosome: a linear strand of DNA and associated proteins in the nucleus of animal and plant cells that carries the genes determining heredity.

Churlish: rude, surly

Circumlocution: 1.the use of wordy and indirect language. 2.a roundabout expression

Circumnavigate: to go or proceed completely around.

Deciduous: Falling off at a specific season or stage of growth 2.shedding foliage at the end of the growing season.

Deleterious: harmful, injurious

Diffident: lacking self-confidence; timid

Enervate: to weaken or destroy the strength or validity of

Enfranchise: 1.to bestow a franchise on 2.to endow with the rights of citizenship esp. rights to vote.

Epiphany: a revelatory manifestation esp. of a divine being.

Equinox: either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equation, and when the length of the day and night are approx, equal.

Euro: the basic unit of currency in participating EU countries.

Evanescent: disappearing, fading away like vapor.

Expurgate: to remove obscene or objectionable material from

Facetious: playfully jocular; humorous

Fatuous: smugly and unconsciously foolish

Feckless: 1.lacking purpose vitality; ineffective 2.careless, irresponsible

Fiduciary: relating to a holding in trust for another

Filibuster: an adventurer engaged in private warfare abroad.

Gamete: a reproductive cell esp. a mature sperm or egg capable of participating in fertilization.

Gauche: lacking social polish; tackless

Gerrymander: to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one political party in elections.

Hegemony: the dominance of one state over others.

Hemoglobin: the iron containing respiratory pigment in red blood cells.

Homogeneous: of the same or similar nature or kind.

Hubris: overbearing pride; arrogance

Hypotenuse: the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.

Impeach: to try to discredit; challenge

Incognito: with one’s identity disguised or concealed.

Incontrovertible: impossible to dispute; unquestionable.

Inculcate: to teach or impress by frequent instruction or repetition ; instill

Infrastructure: an underlying base esp for an organization or system.

Interpolate: 1.to insert or introduce between part other elements or parts. 2.to change a text by introducing new or false material.

Irony: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

jejune: not interesting, lacking maturity, childish, lacking in nutrition.

kinetic: of or produced by motion

kowtow: to show servile deference, to kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, submission.

laissez faire: noninterference esp and economic doctrine that opposes governmental involvement in commerce.

lexicon: a dictionary, a specialized vocabulary.

loquacious: very talkative.

lugubrious: mournful and gloomy esp. to a ludicrous degree.

metamorphosis: 1.a transformation as by magic or sorcery. 2.a marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.

mitosis: 1.the process in cell division by which the nucleus divides, normally resulting in two new nuclei, each of which contains a complete copy of the parental chromosomes. 2.the entire process of cell division including division of the nucleus and the cytoplasm.

moiety: a half, a portion or share

nanotechnology: a science of building electronic circuits and devices from single atoms and molecules

nihilism: 1.a doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. 2.the belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvements.

nomenclature: a system of names used in an art or science.

nonsectarian: nonpartisan, not narrow minded, not parochial.

notarize: to certify or attest to as a notary public.

obsequious: full of or exhibiting servile compliance.

oligarchy: a government by few/ those making up such a gov./ a state governed by such a gov.

omnipotent: having unlimited power.

orthography: correct spelling / a method of representing the sounds of a language by letters or diacritics.

oxidize: 1.to combine with oxygen 2.to increase the positive charge of valence of an element by removing electrons.

parabola: a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone.

paradigm: 1.an example that serves as a pattern or a model. 2.A list of all the inflectional forms of a word taken as an illustrative example.

parameter: a constant in an equation that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces, such as the radius in a family of concentric circles. 2.a measurable factor, such as temperature, that helps define a system and its behavior.

pecuniary: of or relating to money.

photosynthesis: the process by which chlorophyll containing cells in green plants use light as an energy source to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water.

plagiarize: to use and pass off as one’s own(the ideas or writing of another).

plasma: 1.the clear yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. 2.protoplasm or cytoplasm. 3.whey

polymer: any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usu. high molecular weight consisting of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule.

precipitous: 1.resembling a precipice; extremely steep. 2.having precipices

quasar: A starlike object that emits powerful blue light and often radio waves.

quotidian: 1.Everyday; commonplace 2.recurring daily.

recapitulate: to repeat in concise form; summarize

reciprocal: 1.given or shown in return 2.performed or felt by both sides; mutual

reparation: 1.the act or process of making amends 2.something done or paid to make amends.

respiration: 1.the act or process of inhaling and exhaling. 2.the act or process by which a cell or organism without lugs exchange gases with its environment.

sanguine: 1.of the color of blood; red, ruddy. 2.cheerful; optimistic.

soliloquy: 1.a dramatic discourse in which a character reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of other characters. 2.the act of speaking to oneself.

subjugate: 1.to bring under control; conquer. 2.to make subservient.

suffragist: an advocate of the extension of voting rights esp. to women.

supercilious: feeling or showing haughty disdain.

tautology: 1.needless repetition of the same sense in different words: redundancy. 2.logic, a statement that includes all logical possibilities and is therefore always true.

taxonomy: 1.the classification of organism in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships. 2.the science or principles of classification.

tectonic: 1.the geology of the earth’s structural features. 2.the art of large scale construction.

tempestuous: tumultuous ; stormy.

thermodynamics: physics that deals with the relationships between heat and other forms of energy.

talitarian: of or being a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute control over all aspects of life and opposition is outlawed.

unctuous: 1.marked by affected exaggerated, or insincere earnestness. 2.greasy; oily

usurp: to seize and hold by force and without legal authority.

vacuous: 1.empty 2.inane; stupid 3.blank, vacant.

vehement: 1.characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion ; fervid. 2.marked by vigor or energy; strong.

vortex: 1.a spiral motion of fluid esp. a whirling mass of water or air; whirlpool or whirlwind

winnow: 1.to separate a chaff from grain by means of a current of air. 2.to sort into categories sep of good or bad. 3.to separate or get rid of an undesirable part.

wrought: 1.fashioned, created. 2.shaped by hammering.

xenophobe: one unduly fearful or contemptuous of strangers for foreigners.

yeoman: an attendants servant or lesser official in a royal or noble household

ziggurat: A temple tower of the ancient Assyrian and Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid.