Elton Ho — This is a tale about a young man, Elton Ho, whom I occasionally refer to as “me”, and his intellectual and cultural journeys with Aihara lab in the University of Tokyo. This is a quest in which this young man explores the frontiers of high energy physics through constant failure and repeated…
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Chung-an Max Wu — This summer, I participated in the University of Tokyo Summer Internship Program (UTSIP). For 4 weeks, I had the opportunity to live in Japan and conduct research in the lab of Prof. Takuya Ueda, in the Department of Medical Genome Sciences. Prof. Ueda’s lab specializes in the emerging field of synthetic…
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Aniruddha Bapat — This summer I had the good fortune of spending six weeks in Japan as a UTRIP fellow. In the days leading up to UTRIP, I had read in detail about the science at UTokyo, and had grown slowly more excited about the prospect of being part of the physics community at a…
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Ichigo Ichie (one time, one meeting) Alana Ogata — I was in a biochemistry class when I received an email from Professor Yamanouchi informing me I had been accepted to the UTRIP program. I had to restrain from screaming on the spot. My dream during my college career was to study abroad in Japan, but…
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by Jacob Albritton — I have been researching under Professor Ichizo Kobayashi in the Laboratory of Social Genome Sciences at the University of Tokyo for about 6 weeks now. At a glance, Kobayashi-sensei et al. have been researching restriction-modification systems and DNA recombination machinery, with a focus on the role of these biological phenomena in…
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by Yuri Asanuma — This summer, I participated in the Intensive English for College Students course at Yale University English Language Institute. The program had morning classes and afternoon classes. In the morning, we took three classes: Reading and Vocabulary, Expository Writing and Conventions of Written English, and Speaking and Listening Skills. Students were divided…
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by Emre Discekici — I will never forget the summer 2012 I spent in Japan. There are no words that can adequately describe what I have learned, the experiences I have had, and most importantly, the people I have met. It was February of this year when I applied to the University of Tokyo internship…
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by Gulnara Fayzulina — This past summer I have participated in University of Tokyo Research Internship Program (UTRIP). For six weeks, I got an opportunity to live in Japan and to do research in Dr. Kuroda’s Laboratory at the University of Tokyo. Dr. Kuroda’s Laboratory, part of the Biophysics and Biochemistry department in Graduate School…
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by Motoka Fukui — The experience which I gained this summer is no doubt a priceless and special one. This was my first time to study abroad, and I had never had a chance to use English in a practical way before. My motivation to this challenge was just wanting to tackle something unfamiliar in…
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by Justin Holmgren — This summer I did a research internship at the newly established Hasuo Lab in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Tokyo. This lab’s research centers on the use of particularly abstract mathematics to study formal logic in computer science. This internship was organized by MIT’s MISTI‐Japan Program and…
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