Jayden Kim

Student (scholar, even?).

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  • Psychological Grasp of Social Media

    This paper explores the mechanisms by which social media psychologically grasps the attention of its users and how easily behaviors can be learned from it. The paper discusses the nucleus accumbens and its role in the mesolimbic system to positively associate stimuli with dopamine rewards, and how the social media algorithm uses it to retain…

  • Year 1 Review

    Year 1 at UW as an early entrance scholar or something. Autumn Quarter | 2025 This quarter was a lot. Entering college with no credits was interesting because I got a schedule that looked somewhat similar to a high schooler’s, except with 2 or 3 hour breaks in between classes. I also joined Student Senate,…

  • Existentialism in Minecraft

    Jayden Kim, Instructor Sheng Kao | ENGL 131 Major Project 2 | 23 Nov. 2025, Rev. 9 Dec. 2025. — As I reminisce upon my childhood, a period of my life that is now departing from me, I remember one game that I spent much of my life surrounded with. On the 17th of June,…

  • The United States Intervenes on Iran-Israel Conflict

    View this featured article here: https://foreignfocus.org/#irannunitedstates

  • Christian Nationalist Social Media on January 6, 2021

    Abstract The problem in this digital age is the easily accessible channels of communication. The influence of social media has been ever-increasing, particularly in bettering democracy. However, scholars attribute social media to causing attempts to limit democracy, one of which being the Capitol Insurrection in 2021. Social media played a large role in organizing and…

  • Never Alone — Schools as “Panopticosms”

    Maker’s Statement What I wanted to do with this project was convey the innate panopticosmic traits within education by referring to sources and mediums we’ve engaged through this year while retelling my Transition School journey. My non-written piece, the musical score, fashions different sections as different parts of my year. Within these different sections, I…

  • The focus of your eyes

    Daily writing prompt: list 3 books that have had an impact on you. Why? Books. They dictate a story. Whether or not it is the story we want to hear, we don’t know until we read it. The matter is, you cannot ensure the results from your intentions. The books you read reflect your focus…

  • Starting 2025 with a Bang (literally)

    Yesterday’s events were intense: midnight – turn of the year, beginning of a square year (a mathematical wonder); 3 am (local time) a pickup truck with supposed ties to the Islamic state rams into crowds of people in New Orleans; 9 am (local time) another truck explodes in front of the Trump Hotel in Nevada.…

  • To Love

    To love is to show care for another. It is to acknowledge and respect them, but it is also to protect and help them. To love is to watch, not merely guide but let them teach themselves. It is to trust their skill and ability to make wise decisions. To love is to forgive despite…

  • Ethics

    Ethics is the study of moral decisions. You likely have come across the trolley problem, an ethical dilemma. Five people are lying down on a train track, and about to get hit by a train. You have the chance, however, to flick a switch and redirect the train to hit one person. Would you flip…

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