Report on dispatched 3+1 program

 

200848065 North America

Yoorim Lee

 

I will not forget my 6-month experience of living and studying in New York City. Fortunately, I was able to take up lectures in the USA through dispatched 3 +1 because my area of study is North America. I decided to go to New York, which was an excellent choice.

 

I applied for admission to the graduate school of economics in Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY) for the spring semester only. By good luck, the Dean of the Economics Department permitted me to be able to take up two subjects on macro economics.

 

The prospect of living and studying in New York City made me very excited. It was, however, not easy to adjust to living in New York. I encountered some difficulty in adjusting to the new culture, in which things greatly differed from those in Korea. For example, it took me about two months to learn how to properly use the metro subway and bus, and register the lectures I want to take up in Hunter College. I was really a total stranger in New York. I felt like I was a klutz.

 

But John Conning, an economics professor in Hunter College, helped me to adapt to the class curriculum and finish the spring semester well. My classmates assisted me to figure out what the professor was saying during class. I sincerely appreciate their support.

 

Sometimes, when I had some free time, I went to sightseeing in New York City: I visited the Times Square, the Museum, the Opera, the reconstruction of the World Trade Centre, the Wall Street, etc. For the six months of studying and living in New York City, I realized why it is considered as the world’s capital city. That realization eventually became my thesis’s topic.

 

The dispatched 3+1 gave me a good experience to closely study about North America, and I believe my experience in New York City will serve as the foundation for me to become an expert in my chosen field.