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subscribers uh actually sent a long list
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of questions thank you so much thank you
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so much we appreciate that and we're
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going to answer questions based on that
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okay so question number one what's the B
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flag in the faculty of Economics is it a
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good mix of academics and social life
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definitely yes I think we have good
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mixture and honestly it really depends
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on how you live up to you so you have
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you can choose to study hard and you can
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also choose to have fun over the weekend
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or during the day you can hang out with
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friends in Naka cafeteria or the
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library and I do have friends that work
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hard on both like they study hard during
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exam period but when it's not that busy
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they work hard on social life like
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traveling
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or you know yeah like exploring
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Tokyo it's really up to you and in terms
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of front group there's some group that's
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like more academically driven like they
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work harder on internship
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study but there's more like some of
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friends are more driven to like play
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have
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fun travel
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to you you can
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choose I feel like one thing that I wish
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I knew before coming to the Koo faculty
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like Koo program Pearl is that not many
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people are genuinely passionate about
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economics no because I wish I knew this
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before coming but it does not mean that
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the curriculum or the economic itself is
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like super boring boring but I feel like
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it also means that there are people who
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are passionate to learn about other
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things for me even though I'm in
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economics I love making contents like
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this so I also take time to do this kind
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of content creation so it really depends
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on your goal so the academic the the
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environment itself is definitely good
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enough for you to stud economics but
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there are also other people who are like
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me and my friends who have other
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passions so we take our time to do those
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things so I was say it's a good mix of
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um people who love to learn economics
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and people who love to do other their
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other passions definitely the library is
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not that crowded during regular days but
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it's super crowded like a week before
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the exam so you know that people want
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good grade and they actually study but
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maybe not all the time you know that's
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like KO Vive yeah that okay question
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number two how academically rigorous are
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the courses in the economics program I'm
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hoping to be challenged and pushed to
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think critically about a wide range of
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topics but would you say Ko's economics
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program is more Theory focused or does
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it also include real word applications
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like case studies and projects I think
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it really depends on the classes you
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took in high school if you took like AP
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econ micro macro stats Calculus if you
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have the foundation you'll find the
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courses really easy like especially the
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first and second year a lot of people
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say that's like repetition for your AP
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courses so if you don't have those
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foundations like me who didn't take econ
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nor stats nor any math classes in high
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school I find it very challenging you
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know and but you can pass if you work
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hard but you could also fail especially
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like micro macro stats I do see a lot of
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people failing and repeating the courses
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but genuinely um k a little bit merciful
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you can just take it next year and pass
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if it's just your first and second year
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but they become a little more strict
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with the um passing for the grade when
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you're going into third year so there's
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more requirements so you should double
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double check for that so first year
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second year it's going to be more Theory
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based because you're learning micro
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macro and some like history of Economics
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but in third and fourth year it's going
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to be more practical cuz you're going to
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learn um more specific econ I don't know
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how to say it but like for example Urban
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economics or um East Asian economics so
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it's going to get into more more focused
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cuz you're in smaller classes it's not
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like just big lecture
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type yeah yeah I think she answered that
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really well so should we move on to the
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third question how are the professors
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here especially in economics are they
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passionate about teaching and supportive
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of Student Success I think it really
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really depend
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and this is just my own personal
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observation but professors who were born
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and raised in Japan and who only
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finished their education in Japan tend
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to have oneway lecture but professors
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who went to the states or who has the
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experience of going abroad and studying
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there they tend to have a more of like
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discussion based classes but I don't
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know what do you
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think it also depends on the class and
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class class size if there's a lot of
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classes that's where there's 100
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students or 50 students when it's big
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it's always going to be lecture style
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unavoidably because you can't listen to
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50 different people presen it yeah so
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those classes are usually like mandatory
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econ classes like micro macro um stats
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but um there's some Ecom classes that's
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smaller in size like 20 or 30 people if
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you go into um those are electives yeah
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um elective or business
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interdisciplinary courses seminars
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that's only like 20 30 people it's
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usually more interactive um you have
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presentations discussions they give you
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chance to interact within um classmates
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introduce each other so I think if you
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want to take more those those courses
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you should um take those elective
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if you really want to work on your
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presentation skills um there are courses
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like EAS that you have to take those
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courses they do really help you to work
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on your presentation skills and how to
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write papers so if those are the things
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that you want to learn I don't think you
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should be worried too much about it
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because those are mandatary courses that
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all the first year should take also
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check the syllabus cuz the um syllabus
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has it written down what they they grade
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you on some just says exam then that's
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going to be lecture style but some says
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presentation paper then it's going to be
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more interactive yeah yeah okay so next
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question um how would you describe the
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diversity among students um I think it
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really depends on what you compare to
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compared to Like Us and other Western
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countries definitely it's not diverse
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cuz here you have more um Dynamics in
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terms of race like Asian um Caucasian or
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um
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Hispanic all that mixture but definitely
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KO it's mostly Asian like you see a lot
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of Asian people
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um oh so halfa or um Japanese people
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that grew up in different countries you
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know really different countries so in
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terms of background it's really really
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diverse like a lot of people grew up in
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interesting background some people grew
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up in like multiple countries but
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definitely you'll see a lot of Asians
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not much Western
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People yeah um but there was also
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another question asking if there is a
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strong sense of community and I would
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say so you might not feel that sense of
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community while you're students at Ko
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but if you go out and trying to do the
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job haunting you will soon realize how
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strong that connection is usually
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um and a lot of Senai they are always
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willing to answer my questions they
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always willing to help more than I need
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so I would say that we do have a really
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strong sense of um
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Community okay so now I think we can
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move on to the next question next
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question is are there any clubs or
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activities you would recommend for
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someone interested in economics and
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finance but who also wants to stay
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active and try something new kwi
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oh yeah it's mainly female male can join
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but it's koom in business that's really
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um active they're really good they have
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both um events related to economics and
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events for their um club members so I
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definitely recommend that one unique
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thing about Japanese University is that
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there is a thing called Demi it's such a
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small class so you get to have the
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chance to talk to the professors more
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often and if you're in that zi you will
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get to talk about one specific area of
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Finance or business that you're
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interested in so I think this is
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something that is really different from
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the US or any other countries so if you
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are interested in zi or those kind of
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activities I think you will have a good
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time at Ko I think semi is good option
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too you you can join in third and fourth
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year and usually people get
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recommendation letter from the professor
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that's um in charge of them and the Demi
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how does the school support new students
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in their first year is there a support
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network or peer mentoring that helps new
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students adapt so KO itself we have like
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two days of orientation in the beginning
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that explains everything and every year
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we have like orientation for a day about
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like courses you should take and
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definitely there's like professors
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guidance counselor is um person in
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charge of pearl so you can definitely um
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set up a meeting and ask academic
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questions and outside of academics
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there's um if you want something Pearl
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specific I will recommend to for um
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International students I would recommend
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oyster it's pretty new club um since
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this year I think they're trying to make
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um Community within Pearl so that will
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be really helpful too and also pksa it's
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specifically tailored for Koreans but
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also there's events dos open for anyone
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so those two are Pearl specific so I
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would recommend it definitely check out
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their events you can meet um Senpai kohi
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and interact yes um the next question is
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how collaborative or competitive or the
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students in the economics program this
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is also like depends on individuals some
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individual could be competitive and keep
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everything to themselves but my friends
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generally they're really really um
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helpful they're willing to help others
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um for example before the exam season um
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there we had like a study hall is so one
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smart guy would teach all like 10
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students and help them pass so
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definitely there's some collaboration if
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you have like good friends because Pearl
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itself is such a small
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community um people tend to want to help
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each other I mean they we all hope that
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we all can pass together and not ref
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yeah so we do try to help each other if
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we can and we also do receive a lot of
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help from each other and we're wearing
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sunglasses because the sun is so strong
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so yeah I hope you're okay with that but
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we'll continue all right okay the next
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question is do you feel KO prepares
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students well for entering competitive
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Industries I'm hoping to pursue a career
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in finance or Consulting o and I would
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love to know if k has solid connections
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to internship or alumna in these fields
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do you feel there are strong
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opportunities to gain practical
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experience while studying I think this
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is for you so KO is I think strongest in
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finance Consulting those Industries
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those companies like KO students um and
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there's a lot of um alumni connections
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you can also find um campus
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recruiting but in terms of like
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academics
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like I
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said depends on how hard you
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work you can definitely just do like
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internships take courses um seriously
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study hard go extra ask questions to
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professors create networks through um
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circles or midak or um
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semi but if you're just sitting there
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doing nothing yeah school doesn't matter
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yeah another thing that's really
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important to know in advance is that uh
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yes School matters yes GPA matters but
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if you are hoping to work in Japan at
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the end what really matters is the
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networks that you create and build
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rather than the GPA that you get gain
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because even my professor actually told
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me that Japanese companies they don't
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really care about um your grade at the
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end because they will re-educate you and
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they have their specific ways of
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education so they don't really need to
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know they don't want to know your GPA
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but rather they want to know the name of
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the um university just to check if you
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have a solid foundation adding on um
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more than GPA you want to have some
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experience that you can talk about from
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University they're going to ask for gaka
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which means um what did you work on the
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most during your University year it
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could be some circle it could be a club
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it could be um sports team it could be
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internship work
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anything's fine but you want to have
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solid story an experience that you had
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and experience that allowed you to grow
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um but anyway that was it for the
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questions um if you guys have any more
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additional questions comment it down
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below um either me or Anna Rose can um
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answer it anyways thank you guys so much
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for watching and I will see you in my
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