What I Did in Kyoto …
Past Student Advisors
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Ben Whaley — Spring and Summer 2006 | |
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| MAJOR: Japanese Language | ADVISOR: Professor Yoshiko Matsumoto | |
| ACADEMIC INTERESTS: Japanese studies, music composition, drama, journalism, creative writing | INTERNSHIP: Columbia Music Entertainment Inc. | |
| If you are thinking about studying abroad, you have no doubt already thought about how the experience will improve your language abilities, provide you with a new set of friends, and expose you to a culture and way of life completely different from what you know. In addition to all this, studying abroad may actually give you once-in-a-lifetime experiences that change your life… Read full profile » | ||
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Raylene Yung — Spring and Summer 2006 | |
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| MAJOR: Computer Science | ADVISOR: Daphne Koller | |
| INTERNSHIP: IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory | ||
| After the quarter ended, I moved to Tokyo and worked at IBM’s Tokyo Research Laboratory. For many reasons, my Kyoto life and my Tokyo life were like opposite sides of the same coin. I was still in Japan, with the same chain restaurants and ever-present vending machines, but was now living alone in a major metropolitan area, riding trains packed with businessmen and women, and working full-time… Read full profile » | ||
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Lindsay Gibbon — Spring and Summer 2005 | |
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| MAJOR: Japanese Language | ADVISOR: Professor Yoshiko Matsumoto | |
| INTERNSHIP: Neurobiology Lab at Kyoto Sangyo University | ||
| One of the best parts about studying abroad in Japan was that I felt I was learning something new every moment of the day. Whether I was studying gene expression in the brain during my internship, or concentrating intently on the Japanese dialogue in that evening’s television drama back at my apartment, I constantly felt like I was learning something new… Read full profile » | ||
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Pat Leung — Spring and Summer 2005 | |
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| MAJOR: Biological Sciences | ADVISOR: Liqun Luo | |
| INTERNSHIP: National Institute for Minamata Disease, Minamata | ||
| Living with a kimono designer a block from Nijo castle, I rode the subway with the throngs of salarymen, school children, and ganguro girls, to meet Japanese university students for a get-together; this was as close to Japanese living as it seemed one could get… Read full profile » | ||