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I have a goal to work in Japan after graduating from Ritsumeikan University, so I am doing my best to improve my Japanese skills. Since I enrolled in an English-based program, balancing my laboratory work with Japanese self-study has been quite challenging. Despite my busy schedule, I am making an effort to attend Japanese classes offered by the Graduate School of Life Sciences. As a doctoral student, it isn't easy to juggle research commitments with my Japanese learning. However, with the support of my lab mates and faculty staff, I believe that achieving my goal is possible. Last July, I challenged myself to take the JLPT test for N2 level; unfortunately, I did not pass. I was frustrated by the result because I missed passing by just 2 points. Everyone encouraged me to focus on the future and not dwell on past failures. So, I continued to seek more Japanese classes and eventually discovered a business Japanese course provided by Kyoto City. In this class, I encountered many new words that I had rarely heard before, along with valuable lessons in business manners. After joining this class, I resolved to take the JLPT test again in December 2024, though I am still waiting for the test results. In conclusion, no matter how many times I fail, I will keep striving to achieve my goal.

The research works provided by my supervisor help enhance my understanding as well as time management skills to finish it on time.

I learned how to conduct scientific experiments and extract new insights from the process. In this way, I learned that my intuitions and initial guesses could be wrong, and I might constantly fail to finally understand the problems and come up with solutions. It was hard to maintain strong mental health during everything. Then I learned that failure is not a bad thing; it is a way for the research subject to tell its story, and I will understand more about the subject after each failure. It will refine my hypothesis and my knowledge. To balance learning and processing new information from experiments, I usually use the school gym as a way to escape from lab work, allowing my brain to go into diffused mode, which greatly benefits me in refining ideas and concepts. Sometimes I use different working spaces on campus to achieve a fresh working mode.

I published paper with my teammates.

While living and studying in japan my friends talks about my behavior and after analyzing it .

I came here because I heard that the lab I joined focused on game development, but what I found was that it's very tough for someone with a weak foundation like me. Luckily, I met a good senior who taught me the content of the slides one-on-one. After the senior graduated, I was able to cope with my feelings and the seminar content, including the pressure from the teacher.

I am an overthinker therefore I always think about my troubles and failures even my successes in detail.

I built resilience through overcoming challenges, adapting to change, maintaining a positive mindset, and learning from failures and setbacks.

In research, it is common to encounter difficulties and bad experimental results. I am now more likely to think about what caused the result in the first place, rather than suffer the emotions of failure.