Fall Break

Hi everyone!


This fall break was long awaited—and rightfully so! Fall break gave everyone a chance to relax and catch up on homework, sleep, and friends. Many people even went back home to visit family and old friends they haven’t seen in a while. Personally, it was my first time going back home since I moved in way back in early September, so I couldn’t wait for fall break. I remember the days approaching break, I anticipated being able to go back home and eating my mom’s cooking and seeing my old high school friends (and not having to go to 8am classes!). Even with a lot of people gone for fall break, the campus was busy as thousands of people—alumni,students, and fans alike, swarmed to Ann Arbor for the Homecoming Game against the University of Iowa’s Hawkeyes.  Unfortunately, high hopes for redemption from the loss against Michigan State last week were crushed as the Wolverines trailed behind the Hawkeyes and ended the game 38:28. Hopefully we will have better luck next time. 

Good luck with the second half of the semester! 


By: Jisun Kim 

College Advice

To all you Freshmen out there, here are some golden nuggets of advice I wish someone had told me 3 years ago.

1) Don't skip class! You may be very tempted to because you think you can just learn it from the book, but it takes longer to learn it from the book than to just sit and listen to your professor talk for an hour. You might even think to yourself that the extra hour of sleep is worth it, but the extra 3 hours you will spend studying the material when the exam rolls around could have been spent enjoying some high quality Z's. Go to class!

2) If you are undecided and have no idea what you want to do, BE PROACTIVE about finding something you are generally interested in and can see yourself pursuing a career in. Take classes in a wide range of subjects, but don't stop there. Do your own research: find out what kind of jobs are available for which majors. Find out what you would need to study in order to get a certain job. Talk to older friends about their majors and if they like it or not. We're lucky that Michigan offers such a wide variety of schools and programs: a great business school, a great engineering school, arts school, music school, public policy school, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, architecture.. The list goes on and on, but I didn't find out about half of them until Junior year. DO YOUR RESEARCH!

3) If you are an engineer, and you don't know if you want to do engineering 100%, get out. Get out now! I have heard too many stories of Juniors and Seniors who just did engineering because they didn't know what else to do, and switched to LSA with no applicable credits for their new majors. Also, the later you switch out of engineering, the deeper your GPA will sink (probably) and the harder it will be to pull it back up. If you're just unsure of what kind of engineering you want to do, find out quickly because the more quickly you find out, the less time you will waste taking filler classes as underclassmen and the easier your junior and senior years will be.

4) Learn to spend your time wisely. You might have already figured out by now, but college can get very busy. From class, studying, meetings for student organizations, church small groups, to laundry, sometimes it can be impossible to find time for facebook (but we all somehow manage to do so). Figure out things you have to do and things you don't have to do. Class, for example, is a must, whereas laundry can be postponed (to a certain extent..). Learn to double task: if you take the bus to class, do something productive like reading for your psych class. Those 15 minutes spent on the bus may not seem like long, but they can add up. If you ride the bus twice a day, seven times a week, that adds up to three and a half hours! Equivalent to one facebook session! 

5) Figure out what kind of study person you are. Do you get a lot done when you study with friends or do you usually end up taking hundreds of pictures on your mac photobooth at the Ugli? How much noise can you handle when you study? Can you handle the Ugli at its noisiest, or do you need law library level silence? Do you ever get anything done when you take your computer to the library with you when you don't need it? Can you study in your room? Can you study in one place for a long time, or do you need to move around occasionally? These are all good questions you should ask yourself to figure out where, when, with whom, and in what conditions you will maximize your study time efficiency.

6) Finally, last but definitely not least: call your parents. They miss you. It's easy to forget to do it when school picks up and things get busy, but you make their day when you call them before they call you. It's also easier to hit them up for money when they're in their "aigooo! my baby thought of me and called me!" mood than when they're in their "you took three days to call me back" mood.


By: Dan Jun

Taeyang (태양) featured in iTouch App ‘Tap Tap Revenge 3’

Korean recording artist Taeyang (태양)’s facebook page revealed an exciting announcement yesterday, revealing that two of his hit Kpop songs are to be made available in the popular iTouch/iPhone game ‘Tap Tap Revenge 3’. The two songs, ‘Just a Feeling’ and ‘Wedding Dress’, are available for purchase as a package in the iTunes store for $0.99. His bundle is currently ranked at number one in the ‘top 10 paid tracks’ category! Be sure to check it out if you have this app!

For those unfamiliar with Taeyang, he began training at YG Entertainment at the age of twelve. He received six years of vocal and dance training before making his debut in 2006 as a member of Big Bang. He released is first mini-album Hot in 2008, and released his first full-length album Solar in July 2010. His song ‘Wedding Dress’ is very popular among Korean and non-Korean dance groups alike at the University of Michigan and can often be heard being rehearsed to at the Angell posting wall so keep an ear out for it!

By: James Oh

GO TO CLASS!

Although it may seem trivial, good attendance for a class can greatly increase your chances of doing well in a course. Going to class is a good habit to pick up your first year and maintain throughout your college
career. Many freshmen either don’t heed the warnings of upper classmen who tell them not to skip, or, foolishly listen to some of the older students who assure young freshmen that for certain courses, attendance is unnecessary. However, most students who skip class, yet still do well are exceptions, not the standard. I don’t doubt that many of you have the
ability to miss class, yet still catch up when midterms and finals roll around, but why stress out while cramming, rather than keeping up with the material on a daily pace? Also, continual recitation and reiteration of the material will help you learn it more thoroughly as opposed to the couple hours or less that you spend learning it on your own. While class time that you utilize on other tasks may seem much more important, such as sleep, in the end, you’ll be a lot more thankful that you attended class than those couple hours of sleep you caught up on instead. Most professors, knowing that students choose to sleep in or skip, choose to leave out vital information on the slides they post on ctools, or purposely put only the bare minimum of information on their power points. Looking back on these slides right before an exam and not knowing what anything means or how it’s correlated, can screw you over – BIG TIME. So be wise! If you know your professor puts everything on the power point slides AND records his lectures, sure, you may be able to skip stress free, but why sit for hours
the day before an exam listening to numerous, dry lectures? Also, those who aim to go to any type of graduate school after undergrad NEED the recommendation letters from professors. How do you approach and have a
conversation with a professor with whom you’ve never attended a lecture of? For most students, unless you’ve received a full scholarship, tuition is costly, whether you’re in-state or out-of-state. For just in-state
students, it’s about $50 per class , not the overall course, but the class! Think about the money you waste by not attending. So for those of you who wish to both succeed in college and make good use of your
parents’ investment, go to class – it’s the simpler way to doing well! 

For more tips for surviving freshman year, check this website out: 
http://www.quintcareers.com/first-year_success.html


By: Michelle Park

UAAO Fall Retreat

Some of us do not really know too much about UAAO (United Asian American Organization), but you've probably heard about the different SAs around campus: KSA, CSA, TSA, VSA, etc. UAAO is basically the umbrella organization that tries to unite all the different Asian organizations on campus into one giant Asian community. They focus a lot on issues of social injustices, telling the different organizations about the most recent happenings and whatnot. 

We as KSA have unfortunately not been as involved as we have been in the past, so this year we are making an effort this year to get more involved with UAAO. Attending their annual fall retreat was one way I made a personal effort to get more involved. Because I've only ever attended church retreats, I didn't know what to expect. To be honest, I wasn't expecting too much: a lot of sitting around and talking about social injustices and the history of Asian Americans. But it was actually pretty fun. With all the interesting icebreakers, fun bonding activities, and thought-provoking topics of conversation, the retreat seemed to fly by. Not only was it a great education experience learning about relevant Asian issues such as Senate Bill 1070, an Arizona law aimed at deporting illegal immigrants, but it was also a fun time getting to meet new people outside the Korean community by playing games like balloon-fork volleyball. Overall, it was a good break from the usual mundane happenings at Umich, and I would recommend anyone who gets a chance to go next year to take it.

By: Dan Jun

Home is Where the Heart is

As October rolls around the weather starts getting colder and the leaves begin to change colors the weather creeps into Autumn: My favorite season of the year. Where its not to cold and not to hot but perfect hoodie and jeans weather <3. However, even though the weather might be amazing this is around the time I start to get extremely homesick and all I can talk about to all my friends here is about Georgia. For some reason Fall always takes me back to all the times I carved pumpkins with my girls and all of the Friday night football games all through high school. My freshman year, even with all the new things surrounding me in Michigan, October and November were my PRIME homesick months. I missed my family, friends, my car, EVERYTHING SO much but there wasn't much I could do except wait for the next break to come around. I loved my friends here and were so blessed to have found such a wonderful group of friends so fast but it didn't really help me forget about my home in Georgia. However, as a sophomore and even with my constant memories about home I realized how much Michigan has slowly become my home as well. My friends here have become part of my family here with it my favorite Fall memories. HAPPYYY FALLLLLLL :) 

By: Rebecca Yi

Michigan Football!

This might be the most obvious place to visit on campus, but I would really like to promote waking up early on a Saturday morning, gathering with fellow Wolverines, and going to a football game! I am ashamed to say that I have only been to 1 and a half games, as a senior. My sophomore year, I had season tickets and went to half of the first game of the season and became too tired to endure the game in its entirety and opted to go to Panchero’s during halftime…and never coming back. However, three weekends ago, I attended my first official pre-game and football game!

Seeing the entire campus, dressed head to toe in maize and blue Michigan gear, united by the most enthusiastic school pride in the country, and probably the world, is simply amazing. No other two colors go as well together.

 Last weekend, was our annual KSA Tailgate/BBQ! It was a ton of fun. We had delicious cheeseburgers, hot dogs, snacks, drinks, and of course, maize and blue jello shots, courtesy of me and Michelle Park. Everything, from the attire of our members to our solo cups were maize and blue, of course! It was great to see our members mix and mingle, while pumping themselves up for the great rivalry between the Wolverines and Spartans! I had a lot of fun by getting to meet a lot of new friends and had a lot of fun screaming the lyrics to “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls with my old friends. Even though we lost that game, my day was definitely a winner!

As a regretful senior, please underclassmen, make the effort to go to a game at least once this year! Get to know why we, as a campus, worship a guy called ‘Shoelace’. Go blue!

By: Sorah Park