MANTAPPU JIWAAA

Jerome Polin Sijabat was an Indonesian student who get a full scholarship from the Mitsui Bussan bachelor program at Waseda University, Japan. No half-hearted, majoring he took is Applied Mathematics. For us, basic mathematics is might be already difficult, so applied mathematics is definitely much more difficult and complex. His career began on Youtube with the channel Nihongo Mantappu a year ago. Now, Nihongo Mantappu has reached over 2 million subscribers. Want to know more?

Jerome Polin Sijabat or commonly heard Jerome Polin was born in the midst of difficulties due to the monetary crisis at May 1998 riots. He is a YouTub-er and Indonesian internet celebrity. His name began to be known to the public since actively loading content about his personal life or teaching Japanese and Mathematics on YouTube and Instagram. Jerome is currently continuing his studies at Waseda University, Japan, majoring in applied mathematics.

Studying abroad was Jerome's wish or dream since he was a child. The thing that motivated Jerome at that time was because he heard the vacation stories of his elementary school friends who often traveled abroad.

When Jerome graduated from Junior High School, he entered the top 10 highest National Examination scores in East Java and continued his schooling at 5 Senior High School in Surabaya. His desire to be able to continue his education abroad grew even greater. He also often participated in the Olympics, so his opportunities to get scholarships abroad were bigger.  Although at first Jerome always failed, in grade 11 slowly he succeeded in winning the Olympics that were followed. When Jerome is soon completing his education in high school, he is increasingly active in studying and searching for scholarship information abroad.

One of them, Jerome enrolled at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. This campus gave a full scholarship and he did not waste the opportunity. But, his test results stated that he only got a partial scholarship, not a full scholarship. Because he did not want to burden his parents with the cost of his life while in Singapore later, he left that opportunity.

 One time, Jerome got information from his brother, Jehian P Sijabat, that there was a company called Mitsui Bussan who gave full scholarships to study in Japan. After stepping up step by step with his persistence, he finally became one of the two people to get a full scholarship. He was accepted to study with that scholarship in 2016 and is now enrolled in the department of applied mathematics at Waseda University.

Jerome also studied non-academics such as sports, singing, playing musical instruments. His voice is very melodious at all. Jerome learned musical instruments when he was in high school. He attended extracurricular activities outside the academic field so that his abilities could be trained.

Jerome is an example of a young person who can balance learning, hobbies and play. He sometimes shares his videos covering songs on Instagram. Besides uploading content about mathematics in social media accounts, Jerome also poured mathematical formulas into a book. On his social media in this mid-year, Jerome announced that the mathematics book he had written could be ordered. The book entitled "Buku Latihan Soal Mantappu Jiwa" does not only contain mathematical problems but also contains philosophies and solutions working on mathematical problems derived from Jerome's life experience but also contains motivational quotes, his hopes from the book can encourage and motivate many person.

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