~卒研~

Just when things start to get better, I suddenly felt like I was thrown into another world. The issue of the day, we had senseis introducing their respective research and we were given the choice to choose which ‘'room' we want to go and this 10min per introduction really made me awed and fascinated.

Fact is, it never occurred to me that I can have the choice to do all these research. We have so many choices to choose from, for example, to do research on diabetes and insulin, to change hazardous chemicals to environment-friendly components, to do research on bio-fuels, to improve the quality of ink, to improve on medicines that were ban to make it safe for consumption once more...the lists go on. I’m kind of interested in doing research on changing the hazardous chemicals to environment-friendly components, but because there’s two different ways of doing it, I’m having a headache of which sensei’s research to choose. I was awed because all these research seemed so unbelievable and difficult.

Making medicines, doing researches, attending talks, writing thesis, giving presentations to world-wide researchers…They all seemed so foreign to me when I was young. They all just seemed like a dream that could never be reached and could only be watched and awed from far away. Listening to the senseis while they intro-ed their research, showing their recognized thesis, patent, talks in overseas, I suddenly felt that these teachers are really dedicated to their research and our mere ‘high marks’ in exam is nothing compared to the level of research they are doing. These are really geniuses of the world, doing their respective part and I daresay, serving mankind. I really think they deserve better treatment than being ridiculed by these Japanese young kids/Yankees who think they are so ‘mature’. They deserve more respect. The level of difficulty, to find solutions to problems created by others, to create formulas which could not be understood by pure mortals like us but a great solution to other geniuses...This is a world like a foreign language to me, one of the wonders in life I would say, and now, I’m given a chance to understand all these, or should I say be a part of it? Again, I’m baffled by the wonders of knowledge and the complexity of the human brain..

Still, amazement and shocked aside, I’ll have to learn to do all this now. I guess it’s a way of saying “GROW UP!!” to me. Suddenly, life is not all about Math, Physics or Chemistry anymore. There’s more to that...

*pics...overdued tutor's suprise-small-scale party...