集「名校寫手」、「業界菁英」與「總主筆」於一身的『第一寫手張良計』
他的經典作品，與市面上留學顧問公司的文件，又有什麼不同？
申請行銷碩士，除了一句「我行銷能力很優秀」，還能說什麽呢？
看『台灣第一的張良計』，怎麽把優秀，印到審核委員腦海裡！
On July. 28, 2016, a Taiwan name-brand mike tea “Sheer” was reported containing L-Theanine by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA). A total retail sales ban on “Sheer” followed immediately. Such a breaking news had Taiwanese panic again, after the outbreak of several food scandals. At that time, I was an intern reporter at the oldest newspaper in China - China Times. Driven by my reasonable doubt, I started retrieving all resources of information and making a follow-up .
The other morning, a phone call woke me up. “LJ, your report What makes you panic? Food or food safety standards? is splendid! Your headline, cross-national comparison table of food safety standards, and Failing in the AVA test ≠ Another food safety crisis are really eye-catching! This morning, we got 20,000 readers browsed this news already” Mr. Chen, my supervisor in China Times said excitingly. He continued: “Sheer’s public relation office is probably clipping your news now, ha-ha!”
Many media continued to report, and the public opinion had gradually shifted from “poisonous milk tea” to “ appropriate recognition of toxic food”. Negative associations with “Sheer” were diluted by these follow-ups and ultimately, forgotten by the people.
My ability to trigger media impacts through magnetic headlines like “What makes you panic?”, is the first item in my repertoire which I could contribute to your program.
UCB、Stanford與MIT，最愛什麽樣的土木工程系學生呢？
看看『張良計』，如何用SOP，一次收編七大名校審核委員！
The last strength that distinguished me from others is my thorough understanding of the mission of civil engineering. In the 201X Collegiate Innovative Engineering Competition, my teammates and I advanced to the final and hence won a half-a-year industry mentorship provided by the senior civil engineers from CECI Engineering Consultants, Inc. It was until this occasion that I perceived, our mentors have been influencing the destine of the entire country profoundly. In the past 40 years, they built the world-renown Taipei Metro and altered millions of citizens’ lives; they constructed the Intercontinental Container Terminal of Kaohsiung and increased the annual container-handling capacity by 25%; they constructed the Hsinchu, Taichung and Tainan Science Park and realized annual value of production amounting to 300 billion US Dollars. Their legends not only imparted me with the Taiwan economic history, but also instilled in me the upmost mission of a leading civil engineer: “civil engineering for the civilians, civil engineering for the country”
Inspired by these legendary engineers, I began to “think big” and “embrace the mission statement”. In the competition presented earlier, we proposed to build a gondola which would connect multifarious attractions, including an antediluvian railway station, the gold ecological park, a once-flourished mine, Jiufen, and a sea has colors of yellow and blue. With the advent of the gondola, the tour to these spots would become “a package” and attract more visitors. The cultural, historical and natural implications of these areas would also be better known to the public. Meanwhile, as more visitors would frequent here, the livings of locales would be largely improved. Apparently, without truly understanding the mission of civil engineering, a gondola is merely transportation. Contrarily, if we think big and live up to the “mission statement”, any civil engineering project would start serving a higher end.
申請景觀設計碩士，除了設計能力，要怎麽讓審核委員看見您的「格局與霸氣」呢？
看『台灣第一的張良計』，做給您看！
The National Collegiate Landscape Competition in 201X was said to be the most fierce in its history; more than 1,000 future landscape architects participated in this competition. Having seen numerous authentic buildings in Tamsui County torn down and replaced by modern stores, I proposed the concept of having a “street museum” which would connect 23 traditional buildings with a circuitous pavement, forming “a historical complex”. This design will force commerce to reconcile itself with the symbolic soul of Tamsui and to take place under century-old buildings. The conflicts between economic development and landscape preservation now have a solution. It was this design which awarded me the “201X Distinguished Collegiate Landscape Award” by the Taiwan Institute of Landscape Architects.
As a landscape architecture major, landscape and historical preservation was once my career aspirations. Other than creating the “street museum”, I have also taken initiatives to champion landscape and historical preservation. In our project for Donju, a once-flourishing village, we have revived the antediluvian ambiance by interviewing local elders and preserving history with kids’ picture books. We measured local bathhouses, temples, and wells and identified their selling points; we further integrated these attractions and proposed “the Real Donju”, which aims at attracting backpackers with an authentic village dating back to the 19th century.
In 2012, I joined in the Joint Studio Tour with the YY University, USA. This journey made me recognize the beauty of landscape architecture and my passion for environmental sustainable design.(E.S.D) Standing in the Olympic Sculpture Park, which is a once-polluted industrial site, I was truly touched and inspired. Lands cut off by railways can be connected via site grading. The man-made slope can collect water and organic materials and nurture salmon. The waterfront park enables residents to experience the beauty of the Olympic Mountains. This enlightening experience triggered both my ambition to dedicate my life to E.S.D, and my passion to master the “art” of landscape architecture in America.
申請新聞碩士，您如何回答經典問題："What is the role of Journalism?"
看看『張良計』，用「台灣大使自殺事件」發想出的故事，是否既有深度又精彩？
The Role of Journalism
September 4th, 2018, Kansai International Airport, located on an man-made island in the Osaka Bay, Japan, was battered by Typhoon Jebi. Flooded by the heavy rain, the airport was soaked in seawater. A 2,591-ton tanker was blown into the airport’s bridge, cutting off the airport’s connection to the mainland. 7,800 passengers were trapped in this isolated island.
2,000 kms south off Osaka, a message appeared on the internet forum PPT, Taiwan. “I called our embassy in Japan, but I was laughed at and refused by their personnel! I ended up taking the bus arranged by China embassy!” said a Taiwanese college student. Shortly, another news was reported on TV, “China embassy has already arranged 15 buses to evacuate 750 Chinese passengers. When Taiwanese asked China embassy personnel if they could take the bus, their personal replied, “if you think you are Chinese, get in the bus”
These two pieces of news spread like wildfire, leading to heated discussions online. “Taiwan Embassy personnel are always arrogant!”, “Try calling them. They will ridicule you!”, “Busy kissing Japanese’ asses?!” Comments like these started to flood on PPT and the Embassy’s official website.
September 13th, Taiwan's representative in Japan, Su Chii-Cherng, didn’t go to office as usual. His secretary visited his residence and found him committ suicide by hanging himself. His suicide note showed, “I am suffering from criticisms.” Another news was revealed shortly. It was reported the message left on PPT by the student was fake. The student was soon arrested by the police and like the representative, scolded by Taiwanese netizens.
December 15th, Taiwan court ruled the student not guilty, as his comment didn’t threaten the public’s lives. By the time, Su had passed away for 90 days. Untold maggots should had been crawling across his body, and no one is guilty.
In my opinion, the first role media should fulfill is ”the one reflecting on itself first in the society,” seeing if it abuses the freedom of the press and unethically hurt anyone. The second role of media is “the one triggering social reflection”. When the society judges citizens based on emotion and unconfirmed grounds, media should be the one pinpointing the problems and triggering social reflection. The third role of media is “the provider of unbiased information”, with which citizens can think, debate and form a “deliberative democracy”. Then, media deserve the name “the fourth power”.
申請公衛碩士，除了藥學專業，怎麽讓人看見，您對「弱勢的關懷」與「解決問題的能力」呢？
看『台灣第一的張良計』，做給您看！
My learning of the “public” aspect of “public health” started with my volunteer experience to a remote aboriginal village in Tai-dong, Taiwan, where people rarely frequented. As a volunteer of the Rainbow Social Service Corp from XX University, the duties I undertook was crucial; I must inculcate aboriginal kids the habit of “washing hands before and after dining” to avoid Enterovirus infection. I also taught them personal hygiene such as “brushing teeth”, “gargling”, and “covering nose when sneezing”. These lessons might look trivial, but the real issues were: “why these lessons were not taught in such a village?” and “why these kids lied forgotten by our society?” It was also this experience that forced me to think like a policy maker and to bear in mind the health inequality in Taiwan.
Inspired by my favorite proverb: ”Knowing what to do is knowledge, knowing what to do next is wisdom and doing it is virtue”, over the three winter and summer breaks following my first social service, I spared no effort to educate personal hygiene and medication knowledge, and provide preliminary physical examinations, at aboriginal villages, mountain areas and outlying islands. It seemed like I was forgoing my time and life in these journeys, but in fact, I gained even much more from these initiatives. In addition to the postcards from those naughty kids and endearing elders, they gave me a broader horizon of thoughts and the vision of the “public”. Such serendipity gradually kicked in in my later pharmacist career.
Having witnessed the treatments of many Warfarin patients failed, I volunteered to help the principal pharmacist at OO Hospital, Taipei, with probing into the cause of this problem. As an intern pharmacist, I assisted with designing questionnaires, conducting telephone surveys and interviews and attributing the problem to “inadequate medication adherence-patients seldom took their medications as prescribed.” Based on our insights, we launched “compulsory pharmacist medication education” for Warfarin patients to improve their medication adherence. Owing to our research and practices, the treatments of Warfarin patients have been ameliorated noticeably and the public health is enhanced.
申請機械碩士，除了一句「我專業能力很優秀」，還能說什麽呢？
看『台灣第一的張良計』，怎麽把優秀，印到審核委員腦海裡！
June 15th 2015 is a big day of the 3D printing industry in Taiwan. In the Advanced Thermal Science and Flow Control Lab at the XX University, Dr. Chen-Bang Lin and I finalized a pioneering 3D printer. From that moment on, a unique thermoplastic material, polyether ether ketone (PEEK), could be officially utilized to produce more enduring and customized intervertebral cages and myriad skeletal components. And countless patients suffering from skeletal diseases would benefit from this device profoundly. It was this moment that had me witness “the power of a mechanical engineer”, and had me “fall for” the knowledge of mechanical engineering.
My achievement in 3D printing can be attributed to my education in Physics at OO University, Taiwan, as it inculcated me with ample foundation science knowledge ranging from Electronics, Electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Subjects including Quantum Mechanics and “Theory of Relativity” further cultivated my ability to conduct complicated and abstract thinking. Outside the classroom, I interned at Industrial Technology and Research Institute, Taiwan, a world-class R&D institute for applied technology, where I acquired the techniques to measure multifarious qualities of LED films. Given my innate curiosity toward physical phenomena and academic aptitude, I graduated as the 4th place out of 59 students from the Department of Physics.
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