Jae-Min from South Korea: An Open Learner's Story

Jae-Min Hong, our guest for this episode, is a hungry learner with wide-ranging curiosity and a distrust of groupthink. A native of South Korea, she has been fluent in English from childhood, which has opened up many educational possibilities for her. Aiming to widen her cultural horizons, she opted to attend high school in New Zealand; a few years later, she transferred from a Korean university to an American one so she could attend in-person classes during the Covid pandemic. With the help of lecture videos from MIT OpenCourseWare, Jae-Min was able to supplement her formal studies and pursue all the subjects that interest her, from chemistry and thermodynamics through data science and financial technology. She’s now back in South Korea, where she’s finishing a degree in economics at Yonsei University. She feels it’s time for her to really focus her attention on a single field and a single goal, a career in investment banking. But if that doesn’t work out, she says, she can always come back to MIT OpenCourseWare and dip once more into the wealth of resources it has to offer.

The Open Learners podcast is produced by Alexis Haut.

Relevant Resources:
18.06 Linear Algebra on MIT OpenCourseWare


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Show notes by Peter Chipman

[abhilashshirsangi]

Interesting platform. I hereby express my inclination to join MIT open learning. Will be glad, if you can you assist in finding any course on Rotordynamics and Rotating Machinery diagnosis.

[jiyoungpark]

oh thank you, so much.
i'm living in southkorea.
wish you lots of progress in your study. ❤🙏

[Scott-rctj]

Good for her - hopefully investment banking will perfectly competitive in the future and all relevant financial data will be publicly available so smart people like her will go into a field that actually helps society - although the path to that point takes smart people like her figuring out how to better model markets

[NargesF-my]

Is there any body could help me?
i watch some of these open courses my problem is it take a lot of time for example of one video that is 40 min i spend like 2 hours😮i pause the video a lot to take notes and....
I know its not effectivelly way
But i dont know how.
Some thing els is english is not my native language and olso have a little problem for understanding

[IAS]

M. Tech h mera mujhe kese milega MIT me addmision