friend. She came to Japan in 2011 when we were still in high school, so she is I Japan for
around 5 years. Because of the difference between Japan and US, we did not meet each other
for two years. Normally, in most part of world, student graduate during summer time among
May, June and July. However, in Japan, student graduate in spring, and their summer vacations
begin around August.
I also discussed about the different time of graduation with Keiichi Higuchi when we did the
warehouse tour. We discussed why there are less Japanese students go abroad for college. He
told us because of the different graduation time, most of big companies will hire new employees
in spring, as a result, when students graduate in May and back to Japan would be very hard to
find a job. I also talked with the Chinese girl from Higuchi's company, she said she was jealous
about us that we can go a short term study abroad program. When I asked why she did not go a
similar program as we are doing, she said, in Japan, it's hard because most of vacation time is
different with other countries' school vacation, as a result, most of the program is exchange
program for one year or two years.
The graduation time is also one of my worry right now, it's hard to find a full time job for
international student in US, as a result, I am looking for some opportunities back China.
However, through my research so far, it's also hard for us, we won't be able to go a career fair in
Chinese universities, because, at that time, we are still in US. Another weakness for us is that
some of Chinese students they already work with the firm in the last semester, but we did not
have any internships or co-ops with any Chinese companies before we graduate. But we have
language advantage and global perspective which is helpful for us to find a job in a global
company located in China.
(Since, my friend is architecture design major, we saw a lot of special architectures yesterday.)
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