David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell: after finishing the book

David and Goliath written by Malcolm Gladwell laid the possible ways how underdogs should think about their battles and fight against the giants. He suggested to change the process of thinking on common disadvantages as advantages, and react to the battles with giants with the ways that giants would never expect. Gladwell did very well to help underdogs to change their thinking process towards struggle. Gladwell's discussion about college decision, rather to choose the colleges that you can learn and do the best over the ivy league colleges, changed my ways of thinking towards my college and possible future. Before reading his discussion, I was too pressured under getting into very selective colleges. I thought the only way to make yourself special for job market was to go to very good colleges. However, Gladwell provided statistical evidences that it is not necessary true. He showed me that the colleges that I can do my best and learn the best is the best college for me. Overall, Gladwell's David and Goliath is very helpful for all ages, teenagers through people in fifties and sixties, as it provides meaningful suggestions for one's life changing decisions.

Should colleges be permitted to use applicant's Facebook content in their considerations?-revised

When I look at my friends' social media posts, I can see their interests, hobbies, their talking style, and many others. Everything that are shown in their posts describes their personality. However, the personalities that are shown through their posts tends to include something that are not included in any types of their formal resumes, such as how they think in daily basis without a barrier. If colleges look at their applicants’ posts, they can learn some personal stories that are not shown through an individual's college applications which might affect the colleges' decision. Colleges should look at applicant's social media profiles to discover more about their applicant.

Social media profiles reveal an applicant's true personality instead of a tailored resume. I have a acquaintance named Ryan who has good grades and is involved in many sports and clubs. When colleges look at his application, they might think 'this applicant must have gained good leadership experiences from activities and also learned how to maintain good grades! He must become one of the future leaders.' However, his real personality is not like that. He is not really independent, and he asks very superficial questions on Facebook such as "I'm so bored. Does anyone want to talk to me?" or "It's 1 AM and I am not tired. Who wants to chat with me?" These questions on Facebook indicate clearly that he is very feeble-minded. However, these characteristics are not on his resume. Colleges can get better ideas on what the applicant thinks on a daily basis, rather than their polished thoughts through their resumes to get accepted. Colleges should discover true personalities of their applicants.

Some might argue that colleges looking at social media posts harm applicants' privacy. However, one posting something on social media already makes the post public, and colleges will be looking at what the applicant made public. Although both application and social media posts are what applicant decided to make public, applicant has less thinking-barrier to show authentic thoughts on social media rather than application. Social media is definitely a better way to learn about one's true personality than college resume.

Social media can also help students as social media provides additional space for students to demonstrate their interests. When I applied to a selective boarding school, IMSA, their application had limited space to show my interests in singing and dancing. However, my social media posts show how I am really interested in singing and dancing. If IMSA got to look at my social media posts, they would have been able to see something that I also value that is not academic as IMSA was looking for students who enjoys to do many sports and activities. IMSA application did not fulfill the duty to show everything about me. However, social media could have filled the gap from the application. Also, applicants can use social media to express their interests in minor activities that do not have its space on application, and the interests shared through social media can help colleges to discover detailed personalities of their applicants. Colleges should look into their applicants' social media status as it provides additional space for student to demonstrate their interests.

Social media status and posts can provide advantages for both college and applicants. Colleges can discover their applicants' personality more deeply, and applicants can fully show their interests to colleges. Social media will become a way for colleges to make their applications better for their applicants to express everything about themselves.

Gladwell "David Boies" Chapter sentence analyse

Gladwell explains that the group of college students were able to succeed in CRT when their questions were on "10 percent gray, 10 point italics Myriad Profont...because of their disorder that they learned something in their struggle that proved to be enormous advantage" (Gladwell 105-107).

College students gained hardships to read quickly as the questions were written in the way that is very hard to read physically. Because of their difficulties, students paid more attention to the question itself as they read a lot more carefully and re-read the questions. Gladwell argues through his example that disabilities are not always obstacles from success, but can be boosters towards success.

I also agree with Gladwell that the hardships can become a great help to success. Hardships can teach you something that is a lot more valuable than the things that you lost from struggles. Of course I don't want to have disabilities that have great potential to become barriers toward success. Everyone would not "desire" struggle and failure. However, what I agree is that they can become a booster. David Boies became a wonderful listener as he got dyslexia, and became a great lawyer. He might have not been able to become great lawyer if he didn't have dyslexia, which he also agreed on. There are great chances for disabilities to become helps for success because it can give you with another great skills.

Should colleges be permitted to use applicant's Facebook content in their considerations?

When I look at my friends' social media posts, I can see their personality. Some say that they have different personalities on social medias. However, I can still see their personalities shown through posting "fake" personality posts. When colleges look at those posts, they can get some personal stories that are not shown through an individual's college application which might affect the colleges' decision. Colleges should look into applicant's social media profiles to discover more about applicant.

Social media profiles reveal an applicant's true personality instead of a tailored resume. I have a friend named Ryan who has good grades and is involved in many sports and clubs. When colleges look at his application, they might think 'this applicant must have gained good leadership experiences from activities and also learned how to maintain good grades! he must become one of the future leaders.' However, his real personality is not like that. He is not really independent, and he asks very superficial questions on Facebook such as "I'm so bored. Does anyone want to talk to me?" or "It's 1 AM and I am not tired. Who wants to chat with me?" These questions on Facebook indicate clearly that he is very feeble-minded. However, these characteristics are not on his resume. Colleges can get better ideas on what applicant thinks on a daily basis, rather than polished resumes to get accepted. Colleges should discover true personalities of their applicants.

Some might argue that colleges looking at social media posts harms applicants' privacy. However, one posting something on social media already makes the post public, and colleges will be looking at what the applicant made public. Although both application and social media posts are what applicant decided to make public, applicant have less thinking-barrier towards social media rather than application. Social media is definitely a better way to discover about one's true personality than college resume.

Social media can help students, too. Social media provides additional space for students to demonstrate their interests. When I applied to a selective boarding school, IMSA, their application had limited space to show my interests in singing and dancing. However, my social media posts show how I am really interested in singing and dancing. If IMSA got to look at my social media posts, they would have been able to see something that I also value that is not academic as that was one of the aspects that IMSA expecting from their applicants. IMSA application did not fulfill the duty to show everything about me. However, social media could have filled the gap from application. Also, applicants can used social media to express their interests in minor activities that does not have its space on application, and the interests shared through social media can help colleges to discover detailed personality of their applicants. Colleges should look into their applicants' social media status as it provides additional space for student to demonstrate their interests.

Social media status and posts can provide advantages for both college and applicants. Colleges can discover their applicants' personality more deeply, and applicants can fully show about their interests to colleges. Social media will become a way for colleges to make their applications better for their applicants to express everything about themselves.

David's first tactic to battle against Goliath argued by Malcolm Gladwell - revised

Most of the people in the world think that it is almost impossible to win against someone who’s superior than them physically, intellectually, or even with social relationship .

However, Malcolm Gladwell argues that there are clear ways to battle Goliaths who has many superior aspects, as David who comparably has nothing that is beneficial to win battles. His first chapter of the book David and Goliath introduces people who won against Goliaths with tactics that Goliaths did not expect to encounter. With those examples, Gladwell argues that one of the ways to battle and win against Goliaths is to use tactics that might bring struggle but Goliaths would never expect..

When I tried out for Illinois Music Education Association (aka ILMEA) Choir for district nine last year, everyone thought I was not going to be accepted to choir and would sing in a District nine ILMEA concert. It was very understandable from other people's perspective. I was not very superior at singing to get accepted against people who were in their school's top choir, who practiced their music for five months with their choir director, who had private voice lesson teachers for many years, and who decided to sing for rest of their life as job. I was not interested in singing that much. I had a voice lesson teacher for a year, I had to learn the music by myself, I had so much other work to do as I went to school which focused on math and science, and I was in the lowest choir in my school. Everybody thought it was hopeless for me to get accepted. I had to find special ways to prepare myself for the audition that  most of the people did not take.

After searching, I found the way to be special over people who are very good at singing. It was sight reading. Out of 100 points total for audition, sight reading took only 16 points. However, those 16 points could make huge difference; most of the singers does not do very well on the sight reading section because they don't know how to sight read the music and sing instantly. I practiced sight reading skills to get 16 points in the sight reading portion. Since I had to practice for music and sight reading, it took me almost twice as much time every time I practiced. The process was much longer and harder than usual way that not many people would have like to take, and most people did not take that way because almost everybody in the audition don't know how to sight read which makes everybody somewhat equal. With the sight reading skills, I got accepted to the ILMEA District nine Choir even against people who are in top choir for my own home school, becoming only sophomore and only girl getting accepted to ILMEA

David's first tactic to battle against Goliath argued by Malcolm Gladwell

People who think in the way that most of the people in the world thinks think that it is almost impossible to win against someone who's surprisingly superior than them: physically, intellectually, or anything possible, such as social relationship. However, Malcolm Gladwell argues that there are clear ways to battle those "Goliath" who owns many superior aspects, as "David" who comparably has nothing that will help them to win battles. His first chapter of the book David and Goliath introduces people who won against Goliaths with tactics that they did not expect to encounter. With those examples, Gladwell argues that one of the ways to battle against Goliaths is to use tactics that Goliaths would never expect, although those tactics will also bring struggle.

When I tried out for Illinois Music Education Association (aka ILMEA) Choir for district nine last year, everyone thought I was not going to be accepted to choir to sing in District nine concert. It was very understandable from other people's perspective. I was not good enough compare to most of people in the audition who was in their school's top choir, who practiced the music for 5 months with their choir director, who had private voice lesson teacher for many years, and who decided to sing for rest of their life as profession. I did not have that opportunity. I had voice lesson teacher for a year even before I got the music for the audition, I had to learn the music by myself, I had so much other work to do as I go to school where focuses on Math and Science, and I was in the lowest choir in my school. Everybody thought it was hopeless for me to get accepted. I had to find something special way to prepare myself for audition, that most of the people does not walk.

After searching, I found the way to be special over those people with very good singing skill: sight reading skills. Out of 100 points total for audition, sight reading took only small portion which is 16 points. However, those 16 points could make huge difference; most of the singers loose that 16 points because they don't know how to sight read the music and sing instantly. I practiced sight reading skills to get 16 points in the sight reading portion. Since I had to practice for music and sight reading, it took me almost twice as much time every time I practiced. It was longer way that not many people would like to take, and also was not expected to take because almost everybody in the audition don't know how to sight read which makes everybody somewhat equal. With the sight reading skills, I got accepted to the ILMEA District nine choir even against people who are in top choir for my own home school, becoming only sophomore and girl getting accepted to ILMEA except senior boys,