Day 6: In today's lecture, we learned more about biology and the science behind epilepsies. The class was overall interesting and we saw our professor eating at the same cafeteria as us!
Day 7: Today, our student exchange manager Naosuke took us to the Asano campus. It was a nice 20 minute walk and I enjoyed having a lecture in a different room for once. However, the topic today was about Biomedicine and things started to get a little difficult to follow along...
Day 8: We went back to the Hongo campus and we had our first lecture on Part 3 which is Nanotechnology. I came into the class thinking that I'd be fine just because I took physics last semester but I couldn't be more wrong. The lecture on spintronics and quantum physics were extremely hard to understand.
Day 9: We were back at the Asano campus and we were on biotechnology once again. Lectures were interesting and today's lab tour was interesting as got to see customized equipment that the University made in partnership with Nikon and people in the labs were so dedicated that they literally slept there!
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| Lecture at the Asano campus. Some people were tired or the material was too hard so they decided to take a nap. |
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| Lab tour at the Asano campus. |
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| Grad students at University of Tokyo were so intense about their research that some even had lofted beds so they could sleep there at night and work there during the day. Quite amazing.... |
Day 8: Today we had an exchange program with the calligraphy club to learn about Shodo. Shodo is the Japanese calligraphy developed from Chinese calligraphy. Similarly, it uses the fude or brush to write on the paper using an ink called sumi. Although it was hard at first, we eventually realized that it was better to enjoy the moment rather than to stress over the difficulty and at the end, we had a blast!
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| Everyone working hard on Shodo. |
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| Everyone with their end product. Everyone's calligraphy looked great and it was really nice to experience Japanese art culture. |
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