{"id":26906,"date":"2026-07-15T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/?p=26906"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:51:09","slug":"communicating-with-different-people-pushes-you-to-crack-open-your-brain-and-explore-things-from-different-perspectives-2-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/news-en\/2026\/07\/15\/26906\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Academic Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong> <span class=\"fontstyle0\">MCREE, Lily Grace<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nEnglish-based Degree Program (Political Science Major)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mcree-scaled-e1784014090626.jpg\" width=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">In my view, the multicultural academic environment has been the most valuable aspect of my experience at Waseda Universit y. While I have learned a great deal from professors, the greatest source of knowledge came from engaging with peers from diverse backgrounds, each bringing a unique perspective shaped by their home countries and personal experiences. Both on campus and in Tokyo more broadly, I was exposed to people, viewpoints, and experiences that I would likely never have encountered other wise, greatly challenging my worldview and broadening my understanding of perspectives beyond my own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MCREE, Lily Grace English-based Degree Program (Political Science Major) In my view, the multicultural academi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[93,139,261],"class_list":["post-26906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-admissions-en","tag-general-en","tag-student-voices-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26913,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26906\/revisions\/26913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fpse\/pse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}