I chose NUS college curriculum rather than others because their engineering curriculum has a variety of technological applications in this era and is also important for the future. The common curriculum requirements itself are more focused on methodology and critical thinking since it will help students to understand the whole material of specific material. NUS engineering college curriculum itself is very promising for the future of the technology industry, and I seek the opportunity to become a part of NUS upcoming talent. If I get admitted to the university, I must do the best for the college, the technology industry and myself. I chose to be involved because I am ready to use my experience that I have been through various places such as school, university, home and many more. I was on the Student Council and I enjoyed it since the activity is fundamental to living college life. In the Student Council, there are a lot of important skills that have been taught to study abroad. I also participated in wide-ranging events like competitions such as the Computer Technology Festival (CompFest) at Universitas Indonesia, Pesta Sains at IPB University and the National Science Olympics. I have been taught something new about technology there and still want to learn more. My interests mainly focus on technology and engineering, specifically artificial intelligence and robotic engineering. Also, it’s deepened over the years. I like to make Gundam model kits, especially 1/144 scale, and make joint motions based on the model, since I am interested in machine learning. For computers, I have mastered 3 Programming languages, including C, C++, and Java. I have worked in various programming software, such as Visual Studio Code, Xcode and R. When I spend more time on some activities than others, I prioritize some activities the same as my interests, since it will be the best for me.

My thinking is mostly driven by curiosity. Whenever I stumble upon a topic that triggers my interest, the more curious I am about that topic. When it comes to everyday life, I often scrutinize what is going on around me. When I was in the Student Council, I often asked a lot of questions especially throughout a monthly meeting. I gathered everyone’s thoughts into one conclusion including mine so that I can get my own understanding of a subject. I have my own perspective of intellectuality after reading a lot of information. Intellectuality is often misunderstood as intelligence, but it’s actually dissimilar. The immense percentage of people who have intellectual titles are not even themselves intellectually inclined. For example, there are two people, a teacher and a professor. Both the teacher and professor can be both intelligent and intellectual, but they use different approaches.

Intelligence generally alludes to the ability to retain, understand, and apply knowledge that we know about. Problem-solving, reasoning, and adaptability are still realizable for intelligent people. On the other hand, intellectuals refer to a person who is genuinely interested in learning, and one who enjoys thinking and discussing ideas with others. It is essential for intellectuals to be efficient and precise in their work. Mastering both of these skills will solve problems precisely. Logic is also the fundamental behind the two and if one doesn’t have incisive logic, one doesn’t have a basic understanding of knowledge. Besides those three, the emotional quotient is much more important. An individual with a high emotional quotient is capable of acknowledging the emotions of themselves and others, to use emotional information and emotional balance in response to changing environments, particularly when they are given problems in a rushed situation that need to be resolved. Individuals with a high emotional quotient are aware of any situations, listen before making decisions, concede mistakes, display empathy, and deal appropriately with negative emotions.

In other ways, there’s a good analogy for this comparison. There are two people. There is one teacher who is a highly respected college professor with over thirty years’ experience and there is one who is a college undergraduate. They are given a problem of infinitesimal calculus that they have to solve the problems under three minutes. The teacher uses external knowledge such as differential and integral formulas to solve the problem, whereas the college undergraduate uses his own viewpoint to figure out the problem. Both the solutions are correct, but use different methods. Although the teacher has the correct answer, even though it is from one of the most well-known books on calculus, the assignment is tardily done. However, the college undergraduate had both the correct answer and unprecedented techniques. The teacher uses an outmoded calculus formula and one of them is an archetypal Holditch-Type Theorem. Nevertheless, the formula cannot be used under plenty of circumstances, especially if it’s done in the above three minutes. The college undergraduate were capable of finding a method that’s not only efficient but can be finished in rapid time. Moreover, even under three minutes, he can solve the problems with a relaxed and equable demeanor albeit the college teacher is looking incautious and impetuous. There are a lot of people mistaken for intellectuals by their high intelligence quotients, which means that it doesn’t matter what their intelligence is when it comes to unanticipated circumstances. From this correlation, the misconceptions between intelligence and intellectuals become more comprehensible.

Furthermore, both intellectual and intelligent people complete each other from versatility to multifaceted sides regardless of their differences. An intellectual can’t reside without an intelligent person vice versa.

I affirm that my responses represent my own work. I received help from my mentor about the essay compositions and word choices. My mentor, who is also a close friend of mine, worked on an essay for a scholarship programme in Japan, and he also helped his juniors to write essays for the programme as well. Overcoming the struggle with the help of my mentor has helped me a great deal, especially when he taught me how to use the correct phrases in order to identify the core area of the question. In order to come up with interesting words to use in the essay, I use the Cambridge Dictionary as a resource. I often use the Cambridge Dictionary for my study especially for reviewing text and biographies so I used this for the third time. It has a variety of vocabulary and usage of conjunctions since it will help me a lot for writing an essay. Since the limit of the character of the essay is 4.000, I must search a lot of words to fit into the essay. Overall, this is one of my favourite essays to do and I never thought that I can finish this within my original idea of concocting an analogy between a highly respected college teacher and a freshman. Initially, I was considering dumping the idea because I couldn’t see the point of using something like an analogy for an essay, so I was inclined to disregard it. However, I changed my mind because this is how I use my critical thinking to analyze the question. For some reason, using an analogy can help the commoner to understand things more than using a lot of metaphors that some people might struggle to find out the meaning of. Before I decide to do the essay, I was wondering what the topic would be and turns out it is about an individual view of an intellectual. I chose to answer the first question rather than the “imagining” question, so that I would be able to provide a unique perspective about what intellectuality is and how it works from my own perspective. I give an explanation of what is the characteristics of an intellectual and what they do especially when they are given a problem. On the other hand, I decide to do an observation about my standpoint of intellectuals before putting together the material to an essay. I have always been interested about what is intellectual and how they approach the world. After I finished the essay about 2 weeks ago, I can say without a doubt I enjoyed it a lot.