Application letter & Resume

Graduate Coordinator,

Name of the applying university

The United States of America

Dear Sir/Madam

I really desire in pursuing a master degree at Name of the applying university in Artificial Intelligence of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program. I am currently pursuing the Bachelor of Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore, and my interested area is AI which is also a major branch of specialization of computer engineering.

Being a computer engineer undergraduate, I have achieved much experience and concrete knowledge of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which enhanced me in both academic areas for combining them to build products consisting software and hardware. This is also a strong matching point with the program that I am applying for because they are both a combination of two majors. Computer Engineering is the wisest choice I have ever made. Through intensive and extensive projects during the CEG course, I have built up the solid basis with excellent individual and team performance for my future work and study in deeper and more specialized fields.

I always admire the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and since I was a young child, movies and stories about robots have motivated me to put a lot of ambitions into my followed life decisions. I have a unique belief, which is that people who still remember their big childhood dream and pursue it are always the happiest and luckiest ones, moreover, the successful ones. If most people are commonly motivated by interests, then it is me myself that motived my interest. If most people are commonly focusing on the requirements and qualifications, then my belief keeps reminding me that children’s dreams do not have a limitation and here comes the possibility for the impossible for my life. Born in China, I have gone through the competitive College Entrance Examination before my turning point. The impossible came when I failed to get the desired major. However, children’s dreams always get a way out. Making up mind and fighting again for the dream won my possibility back. And this is why I am here in Singapore as a scholarship owner, making step-by-step milestones directly pointing to my dream. Thanks to Singapore, I can see the thin band bridging grown-up me and child me growing wider and stronger. And thanks to my dream, I feel the pushing power inside me no more clearly than now when I am writing this letter. Chinese has an old saying “Man struggles upwards, water flows downwards”. For me, dreams are there right in these two sentences.

Name of the applying university is my dream, but dreamers are not always lazy ones. I am a unique dreamer which dream of creating better dreams to motivate more people. I know Name of the applying university needs talents but dream can be talent if it comes a long way far from 10 years ago a young child’s heart. Sincerely thank you for reading this letter. I really hope there is a possibility for me to continue my dream and thank again for your consideration. Please contact me if there is anything else I need to provide. I look forward to communicate with you in the near future.

Yours Sincerely,

Yang Mo 

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YANG MO

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Prince George's Park Residences, #18-2C, 27 Prince George's Park Singapore 118425

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EDUCATION

2011 - Present      NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, Bachelor of Engineering (Computer)

¡  Expected to graduate – June 2014 with 2^nd Upper Honors

¡  Award PRC Undergraduate scholarship for excellent academic performance

2010 - 2011        XIAN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY

¡  Awarded SM3 Program Scholarship for excellent performance

2007-2010         Middle School Attached To NORTHWESTERN POLYRTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

¡  Achieved excellent performance in CHINA College Entrance Examination (Top Batch)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2008              SHAANXI YUANGUANG HI-TECH CO.LTD, China

Jul- Sept           Learning Travel, Workflow Management

¡  Learned strategy of factory workflow management and analyzed the efficiency

PROJECTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

2011  Oct         CS1231(Discrete Mathematics) Module Project (Taxi Dispatch System)

¡  Implemented a research project on “Designing Efficient Taxi Dispatch System Theory”

¡  Gained extensive knowledge of system design and problem solving strategy using Discrete Math

2012  Feb-Apr     Electrical Engineering Project

¡  Implemented a group designing and building project on “Self-Control Line-Tracking Motor Car ”

¡  Gained considerable experience and knowledge of electrical components working theories and great comprehension of electronic physics

¡  Enhanced self-designing and group-implementing skills in basic and complex circuits implementation

2012  Feb-Apr     CEG Hypermarket system design project

¡  Implemented a stock management program on “CEG Hypermarket System”

¡  Gained great knowledge of C++ programming language and considerable experience in system designing and application implementation using Objective-Oriented Language

¡  Enhanced program development skills in team work

2012

Aug- Present        Leader of Software Engineering Project

¡  Designing and developing User Task Management Application(The Lightask)

LANGUAGES AND INTERESTS

¡  Proficient in English and Mandarin.

¡  Keen interest in Chinese modern poetry, essays, and advanced electronic gadgets

Resolving Interpersonal Conflict

Rebecca is a private secretary in an international corporation. Her boss, Mr. Lu, is the president in charge of the company’s branch of Greater China region. Everything went quite normal between them until the night of April 7^th. On that day, Mr. Lu found he had left something important in the office, so he headed back for it. However, when he reached the office’s door, he suddenly realized that his key was not with him and he might have left it in the office. The only thing he could do was asking his secretary for help, which seemed a good solution but later it turned out to be the opposite. It was several hours after Rebecca got off work when Mr. Lu tried to call her for help. Unfortunately, after hundreds of phone calls he still could not get through. Then, several hours passed and all the ways he tried failed. Finally at 1:13 AM, Mr. Lu became so angry that he sent a strongly worded and blunt toned mail through the company’s internal e-mail system to Rebecca, which was also carbon copied to some of the executives. The next morning, when Rebecca received and read the mail, she did not choose to compromise but reply by an even more aggressive mail to her boss. Moreover, she even added all the staff on the cc list of her mail so almost everyone received that and word got spread so quickly that it eventually became a hot issue in the internet.

To this issue, some people said that she was doing the wrong thing because she would definitely lose her high-salary job. Others thought Rebecca was so brave to protect her own rights and they even called her “The Bravest Female Secretary”.

However, for this issue, my point of view is that both of them did not do the right thing in the right way. They did not know how to suppress anger and more importantly they did not know how to resolve the interpersonal conflict at all because I think calming down is very first step to resolve these kind problems. And another thing they failed to do was to stand in each other’s shoes, which is also important but they did not realize this. So, how to solve this problem if you were Rebecca? If I were her, I would just avoid the confrontation with Mr. Lu and wait until he calmed down. It may not be my fault, but to be tolerant and kind is a sign of being broad-minded instead of cowardly. And last but not least, as a secretary, she was required to be patient in all situations, losing which will make herself into trouble.

So, what would you do if you were Rebecca, or Mr. Lu?