Blog Topic#2: An Eggs-cellent Way to plan

We had a big challenge with 25 minutes to plan and 10 minutes to bulid a egg protector.

Step 1: Our team's goal and objective was to build a device that will protect egg from breaking.
Step 2: We tried to suggest unique idea to achieve our goal and our team decided how to build  a device. We estamated amount of resources how many straws should be cut and how they should be taped holding an egg. After deciding everything, we draw out the egg-protector.
Step 3: We had several good idea. However, we could not come up with perfect idea.
Finally, we choose the pramid style device.  A tactic of our team that we changed our shape of egg protector because we realized a triangle structure is better than a square to save resources.
Step 4: We should have supposed various scenario for what happened to our device. Also, we need to develop an exhaustive plan.
Step 5: Our egg protector was not perfect device but everybody contributed to the group for our goal. Our result is that the device hit the side of the trash can. So we couldnt get 10 points but we really enjoyed our challenge and did good job.

culture shock!!!

When i came in NY, I was really confused about that somebody asked a question such as Aren't you coming to the birthday party? Koreans answer "yes" when they really can't come. So...Always, my answer was really opposite of what they understood.  That's why I was very confused.
Our way of using yes and no when answering negative questions in the Korean language is the opposite of yours. Koreans say yes or no based on whether we agree with the meaning of the whole sentence, not based on coming or not coming as in English. We answer yes to the question Aren't you coming to the concert tonight? when, in fact, we aren't planning to come. That's because when speaking English we are often confused by our mother tongue.
The other thing is that Koreans rarely call each other by their first name except for close friends and children. When i started to study in NY, students call professor's first name naturally.
In Korea, it's not as common to call others by their first name as it is in many other countries. Though students often do use first names among themselves, adults only use first names with their closest friends. At other times, we call people by their first name together with Mr./Ms. This is very common among colleagues. To be more polite, we call people by their last name plus teacher. And sometimes we call someone by his or her full name plus teacher. This is the most respectful way and is appropriate only in formal situations.

about me!!!

Hi...everyone...

My name is inyoung jeon...I am from Korea...Actually, I came to ny for refresh but i wanted to study more that's why i am still in ny...sometimes i really miss my family but i love NY!!! 

I am a Junior majoring in Marketing and minoring in psych.

This is my first post on this blog.

I will share my opinions on diverse issues related to management.