Writing Section - Win-Win Solution Negotiation

We can say, there is a win-win negotiation when there is no side taking a lose, everybody win, and gains something of value. In order both party to get benefit from a negotiation, everyone should listen to each other's concern, what they value and what they don't value. Sometime, we can give something that we don't need or care of to other side that put high value to the thing. So by doing that, we lose nothing by offering that thing and the other side get something valuable. But be careful, sometimes there is options that we cannot explore or negotiate with too. In general in a win-win situation, we must see other party as colleagues who want to support each other's success.
In the case example of the lecture, we can see Tony as a good negotiator. In that case, Tony gives his idea in exchange of some money to support his life during developing that game. He doesn't ask for a big upfront money so that the company want to support him building the game. But the important thing is the company want to listen and share a pretty good profit sharing with him. So everyone happy there is no one taking the lose side.

Writing Section - Distance Learning vs Traditional Class Based Learning, what student should do to get the best from both?

Distance learning and traditional class based learning both have their own advantages. For whom not familiar with distance learning, it is a new way of a class structured by the help of computer and the internet so that a student can study by him/herself remotely and independently. The materials are pre-recorded in form of videos and some are text based. By using this kind of system student can easily choose their desired time to study whether it is in the morning or at night if they have a job in the morning. Another strong point of distance learning is they can complete the assignment at their own pace as long as it meets the deadline. Furthermore, it allows the students to repeat the lecture as many as they. They can repeat for hard subject and skip or fast forward if the subject is easy.The distance learning provides flexibility and freedom for a busy student than traditional class does.

On the other hand traditional class still has its own advantages than distance learning. It provides more interactivity during the class than the other. Student can ask to the lecturer and get answer directly. Traditional class offers a structured environment to motivate students. They meet their friends and motivate each other to be the best at class. They can also have more personal relationship with the lecturer and friends. By that mean, meeting in person help them to have more interaction than distance offers.

Students now have more choices in study. If they want more flexibility of course they can choose the distance learning. If they want more interaction they can choose traditional class courses. To get the best from both they must schedule their own needs and see their own personality. If they have job or internship to do for that particular semester, they can choose more distance learning courses. And if their personality is not an independent learner, they can choose traditional class more and have more group study with other students.

PhD to the USA requirements

Several things need to be prepared when you decided to take a PhD degree especially in the US. One of them is a GRE test score. GRE is a standardized aptitude test for engineering graduate school. It assesses of your critical thinking, analytical writing, verbal reasoning, and quantitative reasoning skills — all skills developed over the course of many years. This is one of the most challenging blocker for several people of taking a PhD especially if you are not an English native speaker. Beside of that GRE also pretty expensive, it costs $160 in the US and $190 in other countries. There are many of online courses, for example magoosh.com, that give what you need for the test.

If you're not from an English speaking country, you need to prepare document proof of English proficiency. You can choose between iBT TOEFL or IELTS. iBT TOEFL is much better if you are targeting for a PhD in the US and IELTS is best for European country and Australia. American universities accept both but it requires bigger score of IELTS than other countries.