Back From Tokyo! Pt.1 説明会！

I just got back from Tokyo a few days ago. It was definitely a great experience! I only spent two days, one day at the seminar, and one just checking out a bit of Tokyo.

As far as the seminar or setsumeikai, it was very interesting. The company deals with business intelligence and stuff like that which is directly up my street since it is some of what I studied in university. In university, the same company came to give presentations so I was fully aware of, even if I couldn't understand every word, what was going on.

The flow of the program was first there was an explanation about the company and what they do, which was about 2 hours or so.Then, we were able to ask questions to recent hires. I was a bit nervous to speak at first, but I got over that real quick and shot a few questions. Afterward we took a 10 min. break and then took a series of tests including math and just basic reading comprehension in Japanese and a small portion in English.
By the way, math and in Japanese! I haven't seen math since I took Calculus II in my freshman semester, which now is a long time from now...lol I would say I definitely took longer than everyone else, since I don't read and comprehend that fast yet...lol

What I will say helped me is READING on my own. I have a few business and programming books in Japanese that I will dabble in when I'm in the mood. Just being able to recognize that I heard some of the same words from those books during the presentation, was a big motivation. So keep reading, even if you don't understand it all yet. One day it'll all come together. Take it from AJATT. Alot of times people look at me like, "Why are you reading that?" or "Can you understand everything?". However, it's more about just reading what you want to read or doing what you want to do in general. Even in your native language you don't understand every word that you come across, but you still have some level of understanding of the message. So keep reading, keep learning!

Overall, it was just a great experience! If I did well on the aptitude test, I'll be back in Tokyo soon! :) Regardless of the result, I'll be back in Tokyo soon :)