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KGSP - Personal Statement

Hi! The deadline is almost there for the KGSP- undergraduate, but there is still a little bit of time to fix the paperwork. Here are some tips to write that dreadful Personal Statement.

What to write or not on your PS can be a little tricky.

Things to remember.

1. You are selling yourself, remember that you have so little space to write everything important about you.

2. Leave behind things that are do not apport anything to your development as student (or student of the specific major you want to choose). If you find important that you were part of the volleyball team and won many times, then try your best to summarize it and put the things that you learned from it.

3. You are a human being, you have done great and bad things. Show yourself as a humble person, don’t try to show yourself as the best person. If there was a bad experience that made you a better person then write it… BUT don´t make yourself the victim(?, don’t try to make them feel pity about you! (you can’t imagine how many people asked my for help with the essay and their papers were like a sad novel, Thomas Hardy would be proud of them)

4. Ask yourself questions like: Why you want the scholarship? Why Korea? What can you aport to a country that wants to, practically, pay you to study there? Why are you the better option among all the rest applicants from your country? What you have that they don’t? How your presence in Korea will help both Korea and your home country?

5. Write your dreams and aspirations, BE REAL. Write about how Korea will help you to achieve them.

I am a KGSP-U 2018. I’m not as experimented as the past KGSP alumni but I hope this can help the future students.

I’m looking forward to see you all here.

걱정하지 마… ^^

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Alive

Apparently my last post was a long time ago. Sorry for not been active.

I have been 7 month in Korea.

This is how everything is going.

-I'm currently in 중급 ll and preparing by myself for the next Topik that is in October. I'm preparing by myself because in mu language institution they don't prepar us for the examn, it sucks that in other language institution they at least have a Topik 반 but in mine they don't ;-;

-I'm surving with 김밥

-My 말하기 기술 are not the best.

The KGSP undergraduate 2019 is open. Go an check it out.

Now a picture of the Han River.

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Now in Korea

Fuck, so much had happened since the last post. It's 12:13 am here in Korea. Tomorrow i have 듣기 시험 but i remembered i have this blog and now I need to keep up with everything. Right now I don't have time to even breath because this Sunday i have my first Topik.

Soon i will be posting more.

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Almost there

I can’t  believe this. A year ago I promised myself to chase my dreams, even though they were too crazy to even think about them. Every single night I looked at the sky and told the stars about my dream, winning the scholarship. Now I will be leaving my family, my friends and my country to chase those dreams. In almost a week I will be in Korea. The process was a pain in the ass but I would go through it over again if necessary.

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KGSP-U update #3

It's been a freaking mess since my last update. Every single university contacted other candidates but was trying to be calm and waiting for a miracle. Yesterday was the day the universities were supposed to contact us with the results. I was waiting for an email, the hours passed and nothing. Other people started commenting about their acceptance, even from the same universities I applied for. I did not received a single email. I woke up at 4 am hoping to find a message on my phone but nothing. My whole world crumbled when I realized none of the universities contacted me. My friends started asking questions regarding my acceptance but I was not able to tell them that I had nothing. I almost cried, I started questioning myself about everything, about my essays, the entire process. My only thought was 'I almost made it. I almost made my dream come true but it was not enough'. Without any hope I send an email to each university asking if I was not accepted just to satisfy my curiosity. My parents woke up and I had to tell them about the sad news, with my heart broken I fell asleep again. I woke up with my last ray of hope but realized I had nothing new in my email ;-; 15 minutes later I received an answer to my email from Yonsei. They told me they did sent an email with my acceptance letter. They wrote my email as the NIIED gave to them and I realized it was wrong, they were missing a number. My whole stress because they missed a number from the address! Yonsei was my first option but I would like to known if I was accepted in the other 2 universities but they haven't answered my emails. These days have been the most stressful by far from the year. I never thought something like this would happen to me ;^; bad luck Brian. I want this agony to end. 

Edit #1: 

I indeed was accepted in the other 2 universities. Korea University answered with my acceptance letter 5 days later and Yeungnam University like (more or less) 15 days later. My advice for the scholarship? Give an easy email address, it is horrible to be waiting for somethings as important as this.

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KGSP-U update

I freaking did it. I passed the 2nd round KGSP-U. I planned to stay awake waiting for the results but I was way too tired and ended up falling asleep. I kept having nightmares and I dreamt about the scholarship! In my dream I was looking at my phone and realizing I was not among the winners. I suddenly wake up at 6:00 am and the first thing I did was to check my phone. My eyes settle on the message of a fellow mexican candidate, her message was about us...passing the second round. I immediately opened my computer to see it with my own eyes. She was right, our names were in the list. I made a lot of mistakes, specially sending the documents, but at the end...everything was worth it. I still need to do a lot of things, send a lot of documents, but at least there is an obstacle less. 

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Waiting

I just created this blog because I promised myself to write my “journey” with my application for a scholarship. The deadline in my country for the reception of papers for the KGSP-U was October 16. I planned to send them earlier, but I ended up doing everything the 12. I was awake until 5 am preparing the packages, making sure everything was in order. It has been a long way waiting for the announcement for the 2 round (in my country they don’t make interviews or tell you if you passed the embassy screening, so it would be like the first for us). To be honest I don’t have faith, now I realized I made a lot of mistakes in the application and my essays weren’t the best, but at least I tried….The thing is that I don’t feel completely hopeless, but I don’t have that sensation of confidence, I just feel like neutral like if I never discovered the scholarship. I’m just waiting for November 17 for this agony to end xd.