MCH students’ major concern
Hello, MCH students. Have you decided on your career path yet? If you haven’t, do you have concerns about this? First grade students are especially at a loss about their careers and don’t know how to begin. It is one of the hardest concerns they encounter. Although some students are studying fiercely according to their dreams, others often feel restless about their dream and struggle with what they must do. Worries about your own career can be a concern until we get into university or even for the rest of our lives. As we hope to encourage you to solve your career worries more easily, we conducted a survey to examine students’ struggles and provide you with some tips on how to build up a student record effectively based on your dream.
What would students’ career concerns be?
We did a survey on first-grade students to determine their thoughts about their careers. At first, we asked them if they had already determined their careers or set a direction of dreams roughly. The results showed that only 16% of students had decided on their specific dream, 28% of students had started working on setting the direction of their dream and the other 56% hadn’t yet determined their dream. These results show that about half of the students can’t yet organize their thoughts and don’t have any clue what their career path is.
For the second question, I asked what the best way would be to help them determine their careers. As I had interviewed my classmates, they indicated that receiving advice from older seniors or alumni about how to compose their student record would be the best way to explore their careers. Since older students and alumni have experience, they can understand younger students more and advise them about how they can actively search for careers.
How to build up a good student record
You might be looking for tips from seniors about how to make a good student record. Yun Seo Hyeon, a 3rd grader of MCH high school suggested ways to improve your overall projects.
Choosing a topic for a project
The first tip is about choosing a topic for your project. “Topics that are simply a list of information that AI can easily find should be avoided” she said. Such topics cannot demonstrate the depth of thoughts or critical thinking skills, so you should select topics that can be specified and draw conclusions from the topic. For example, instead of a general and comprehensive topic like ‘International expansion of the Chinese commerce industry,’ select a specific topic such as ‘Has the entry of large-scale Chinese commerce platforms into our country affected our country’s logistics market? If so, what has been the impact?’ However, if it is a research topic that is too difficult for you to understand, there is no reason to select it. Thus, she suggested selecting a topic that is not too advanced for you. She added, “I recommend that you relate the subject specialization to your interest in the subject and your ability in it, rather than focusing on the major you are looking for.”
Choosing activities for the project
If you have decided on a topic, the next step is the activity. She said “You should not hesitate to engage in activities for your topic. Although the content is important, the method of inquiry is also very important. It can be an advantage in your student record to actively solve problems or conduct experiments rather than simply collecting data”. She also added that when experiments conducted in this way are written in specialized words rather than simple words, the topic and the content of the inquiry can be conveyed more clearly.
Overall advice for students’ attitude toward life in MCH
Finally, she added, “Grades are important, but students who are active in research activities are usually active in their studies and end up with good grades. Therefore, rather than putting off performance assessments or various assignments you are focusing on exams, I recommend you actively participate in everything.”
Active participation in projects can help search for their careers more efficiently. When people work on something that they do not want to do, they tend to get bored and lose interest easily. Thus, the odds of determining their aptitude decline, and they cannot find a job that fits perfectly. Also, as mentioned earlier, getting advice from others is a great way for students to find their aptitude. Since people are likely to be subjective and can be biased, getting objective opinions about their aptitude can help them find a career that suits them and is more accurate.
By Staff Reporter Park Yeeun (1-2)
Kim Soomin (2-2)
