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

Oct 16, 2024

29:31

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:

MIT OpenCourseWare

The OCW Educator portal

5.60 Thermodynamics & Kinetics on MIT OpenCourseWare

15.401 Finance Theory I on MIT OpenCourseWare

18.06 Linear Algebra on MIT OpenCourseWare

Prof. Gilbert Strang (MIT faculty page)

RES.18-005 Highlights of Calculus (including “The Big Picture of Calculus”) on MIT OpenCourseWare

Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions

Share Your Open Learning Story

To share your own open learning story with Michael and Emmanuel, send them an email at open_learners_pod@mit.edu.