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Hello everyone!
My name is Justin and I am a student at Northeastern University in Boston. I’m studying chemistry here and am really interested in nurturing the emerging field of Green Chemistry to maturity. Besides chemistry, I am really interested in the Japanese language and culture.
I’ve been studying on and off since my last year of high school (I am about to go into my junior year at college) but have only officially had one semester of Japanese, which I loved. I couldn’t continue with it though because my major is very demanding in terms of the courses I can take. I would, however, really like to get serious about it and follow through on learning to the best of my ability.
My university does a program call “co-op” where students take off of classes and work full time for 6 months at a time to get experience. I would really love to get an international co-op in Japan studying chemistry, perhaps even green chemistry!
I look forward to embarking on the journey, and having you all along side me!
Justin
AnonymousWelcome to Textfugu, Justin!
Hello and welcome to TF :)
Nice to see a fellow Bostonian on here :) A couple of my friends went to Northeastern, and another works there. I hear good things about the Japanese class there.
Thanks everyone!
@Kas – Same to you! Yeah I had class with さくらいせんせい, and she was awesome. I don’t know the other professors well, but I’ve heard they’re great too. You go to school in the Boston area too? BU or something?
@Justin Like half the population of 20-somethings in Boston, I did indeed move here for school. I just finished my master’s degree (MFA in nonfiction writing) at Emerson College and walked last month.
I’m not sure which teacher my acquaintance who’s still at Northeastern had this last semester. My friends who went to Northeastern all graduated five or six years ago. The one who works in the library at Northeastern went to school in RI, and fled to Boston after graduation because he was tired of RI.
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Kas.
Hi Justin, welcome to TextFugu! What particular parts of Japanese culture have got you interested in learning the language?
Good luck with your studies!
@Hashi, sorry for the late reply! A few specifics about the culture I guess would be, how starkly different some things are like honorifics, accepted social norms (ie: おんせん/public bath house), aesthetic values, some music, and also religious culture ( i took a Japanese Buddhism class freshman year which was awesome). There definitely more, but I couldn’t list them all.
Thanks!
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