Qui l'eut cru? Un petit etudiant de la lointaine contree qu'est la Suisse vient jusqu'a New York pour commencer... le japonais! Et un etudiant en Computer Science par-dessus le marche...
Comme la majorite d'entre nous au cours, nous ne sommes pas la parce qu'il nous l'est requis par l'Universite, mais bien par choix. Certains sont des curieux, d'autres des amateurs de mangas, d'animes, de culture japonaise, ou plus simplement d'aventure.
En ce qui me concerne, je me vois relie a l'ensemble de ces categories :)
Les cultures asiatiques m'ont toujours fascine, mais le Japon s'est revele particulierement etonnant. Apres avoir etudie quelque peu leur langue, leur histoire, leur culuture et meme leur religion, mon interet pour ce pays s'est agrandi au point d'en devenir une passion - et une passion qui n'est pas prete de s'eteindre!
En effet, mon petit voyage (et bien trop court par ailleurs) la-bas m'a emerveille a tel point que je n'attend qu'une chose - y retourner :)
De plus, je compte bien y travailler plus tard, car mon domaine de predilection dans mes tribulations a Columbia est l'intelligence artificielle, et (comme par hasard) les Japonais sont l'un des acteurs internationaux principaux dans ce domaine :)
Premiere etape donc: apprendre la langue. Malgre mes mois d'etudes passes a le travailler, elle reste toujours aussi difficile, mais d'autant plus interessante!
Me voila donc embarque pour 4 ans, et que du bonheur (j'espere!)
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N.B: Pardon pour le manque d'accents... (Clavier americain)
Comme la majorite d'entre nous au cours, nous ne sommes pas la parce qu'il nous l'est requis par l'Universite, mais bien par choix. Certains sont des curieux, d'autres des amateurs de mangas, d'animes, de culture japonaise, ou plus simplement d'aventure.
En ce qui me concerne, je me vois relie a l'ensemble de ces categories :)
Les cultures asiatiques m'ont toujours fascine, mais le Japon s'est revele particulierement etonnant. Apres avoir etudie quelque peu leur langue, leur histoire, leur culuture et meme leur religion, mon interet pour ce pays s'est agrandi au point d'en devenir une passion - et une passion qui n'est pas prete de s'eteindre!
En effet, mon petit voyage (et bien trop court par ailleurs) la-bas m'a emerveille a tel point que je n'attend qu'une chose - y retourner :)
De plus, je compte bien y travailler plus tard, car mon domaine de predilection dans mes tribulations a Columbia est l'intelligence artificielle, et (comme par hasard) les Japonais sont l'un des acteurs internationaux principaux dans ce domaine :)
Premiere etape donc: apprendre la langue. Malgre mes mois d'etudes passes a le travailler, elle reste toujours aussi difficile, mais d'autant plus interessante!
Me voila donc embarque pour 4 ans, et que du bonheur (j'espere!)
@+
N.B: Pardon pour le manque d'accents... (Clavier americain)
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Je suis tout à fait d'accord! le Japon est l'un des pays les plus fascinants et j'espère vraiment pouvoir le visiter un de ses jours! =) qu'importe les raisons qui nous poussent tous à apprendre le japonais (académique, professionnelle ou plaisir) je pense que le but final est le même! On est tous des grands amoureux d'une des cultures les plus riches (et high tech!) de ce millénaire!
Courage et bonne chance! :)
Hello! Wow! I wish I could read that on my own, but fortunately Google does a hell of a job in translation and I was able to catch all of it. I find you most admirable! You've got high expectations of yourself which I noticed in your proficiency of the material. I'm surprised that you're a first year as I thought that you'd be more accustomed to college life. Well, I wish you the best of luck! I would love to speak to you in class, but usually I'm just too shy. See you tomorrow!
LOL. Hey, I was frank when I actually wrote that. You do see an optimistic side into me once in awhile. It's when a) I spend too much time with optimists b) I eat chocolate or c) I fell asleep and missed class like today. I usually get like 5 hours of sleep and certain days I just crash. I missed calc III. Boo. I'll survive. I think that anyone who says that they can't understand something either a) doesn't have the brain capacity in the first place or b) doesn't bother to try. I'm usually b) since I'm pretty lazy about everything. I can see clearly that you're not the type to do so from your fluent Japanese retention. I've watched you couple times and you're not one to let a moment pass by wasted while you're in class. Surprisingly you've got damn good manners and social skills which I would imagine that many "smart" kids don't bother with. Or am I thinking on the surface too much?
As for your previous comment, I'd love to talk to you on it although I quickly realized that despite your claims on your English skills, you're probably hell lot better than me most likely since I'm limited to writing and quite some time while doing that, too. I'd like to say that in our friendship, I'm more give-and-take and I don't know what skills or knowledge I may offer up to you. I for one may be pretty critical, but I'm mostly crap. I don't have a philosophical background to know what existentialism or Nietzsche (I couldn't even spell his name right. How pitiful.) You'd be quite the opponent when debating and I love a challenge. I hope you make me angry enough to do some extra work because the worst thing about any branch of study is that I quickly bore of it if I don't have some entertainment. (I think calc iii is starting to do that right now. I need to find someone I love/hate to a point I want to completely annihilate their confidence in it. But, don't take me for a bigot. My hate only comes from the inability to accept defeat.)
I would tell you that before I start even talking with you it's best that you understand more about me. I'm an idealist pessimist. A quite contradicting characteristic. As you can clearly see, I am one who is angered by most human characteristic, but I believe that there is some way that perhaps we can change it for the better. I don't hope for a utopia or any sort, but I am one to dream of meeting a perfectly nice person one day even though I would be the one to always criticize everyone. In addition, I am an extremist in many sense out of habit rather than character. I think that in the American culture, they promote extremism and I certainly revel in it. You'll see me making up excuses and complaints when clearly I could've resolved that situation. By far, I am short-sighted and often unable to see my faults. When we talk, it'd be best that you remain patient with me although your comment manifests that already. No one else has even bothered to read my entries.
The reason why I posted such blatant material is because I'm hoping that I would meet talented people to form good alliances. For sure, you might think it social climbing or networking or being ridiculous, but I refuse to have dumb friends. I think I've spent way too many of my days giving my time to people who are not going to bother with returning that kindness. Yes, you might argue that it's not Hume, but I can't imagine that I can give only love to someone without asking for something back in return. So the first goal in coming to college was to find talented people in order to expand my horizons and understanding while offering the same in return. Mind you, I do not like dumb people, but I do like "talented" people. I certainly accept that there are people who may not be book smart but have extraordinary skills such as leadership, business mindset, etc. In trying to gather these people, perhaps I'm thinking about the future. We need a team of talented people to lead the present, but I think that often my friends misinterpret it.
I often advocate trying to create an alliance amongst my Asian friends and quickly realize how flawed they are in promoting a progression. I would prefer to be at ease with fellows of similar nations, but I now find that they may be talented, but they are not interested in futures beyond monetary affluence. I don't believe that this world needs more money-grabbing social climbers. I think immigration might have contributed to this capitalistic mindset because they had all come to this country for profit and promoted it with continual success.
And I think you're way too fuckin' nice if you're going to take what people give you. I'll be hypocritical and say I hate that, but really I do know that I accept it all the same. If I can't live by a solid philosophy, I'm pretty much too human to give advice to others about it, but oh well. It's not that I don't understand or accept that people are just people. I think it's rather a desperate call I send out hoping to find some assurance that this world still
has some sort of resolution to its countless phenomenas. I for one am economics orientated which is very different from your computer science. It makes me all the more fascinated when I can draw in such radically different mindset. (I find that most comp sci majors are not even remotely philosophical. How did you get to be so?) Besides this I have much more to say, but I'd rather talk to you. I should warn you that I'm not used to men so much because I spent many years in female orientated schools (hence Barnard) so be brutal with me. I love it when a man's manly. It makes me want to love/hate them. And THAT is good for us in progression.