In my opinion, this symposium has brought a lot of positive impacts to me especially in terms of graduate attributes such as the communication skills, thinking skills as well as adaptability as I have stated before. Communication occurs as each of the sessions contain an Q&A activity, enabling all the participants to ask questions related to that specific session. I can also develop my thinking skills through the program. This is due to the reason that the symposium leads me to think and investigate the topics involved in the program. Additionally, adaptability skills can be obtained in this symposium as well. I think that I can adapt well with what the information that the speakers and workshop instructors want to deliver to us.
The advantages towards the activity are that I have learned about the new knowledge that I have never learnt before. This is in light of the fact that the symposium contains several interesting topics such as machine learning and precision medicine for Asian breast cancer, polygenic risk scores for breast cancer risk prediction as well as mapping adaptive variation in Asian populations while the workshop that I joined in this symposium is workshop 1 with the title of AI and Bioinformatics: A Better Future. I have learnt a lot and have a better understanding of this course, Bioinformatics. In my point of view, I have been acknowledged about the studies of Bioinformatics through the symposium.
It is undeniable that there are some challenges to be faced when participating in this symposium. In my perspective, I think that I have achieved my goals of knowing what the symposium is about and learning the information through the program. I can also solve and overcome the challenges that I faced, which is unsure about the content of the program and less understanding of the main focuses of topics. For instance, I am able to do pre-reading and prepare myself with the tools needed before the symposium starts. This enables me to have a brief understanding of the content of the symposium so that I would not be confused when the program was undergoing.