{"id":964,"date":"2023-07-21T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/?p=964"},"modified":"2023-07-21T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T22:43:02","slug":"alumni-waseda-students-in-north-america-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/other-en\/2023\/07\/21\/964\/","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Alumni & Students in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Waseda Experience
\n2002 – 2004 Japanese Language Student<\/h3>\n

Matt Curtin<\/h2>\n
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(2nd row from front; 3rd from the left – light blue shirt with backpack)<\/p><\/div>\n

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I will be forever indebted to Waseda for the language and knowledge this prestigious university has provided me. It was not only a wonderful experience but has opened doors professionally and perhaps more importantly, contributed greatly to my personal life.<\/p>\n

I took a circuitous route to the Waseda classroom. I\u2019ve always been fascinated by languages and studied Spanish and French overseas as a student at The Ohio State University. It was through these experiences that I caught the international bug and was lucky enough to secure my first job with an English teaching position at Nova in Saitama. I thought I\u2019d be able to learn Japanese on my own but as anyone reading this knows, that is impossible. So, I applied to the Waseda language program and am forever grateful to have been accepted for two years.<\/p>\n

It was due to this new language ability, cultural understanding, and what I suspect is a healthy dose of prestigious Waseda University name recognition, that I landed (pun intended) an Account Executive role at Japan Airlines in San Francisco back in 2006. I remain in the airline industry and it is thanks to Waseda that my career really took off (sorry for another bad pun). On a personal level, Waseda again is to thank for an excellent family life as my wife is Japanese, my kids are bilingual, and a large portion of our social lives are Japanese related. My kids attend Hoshuko \u2013 Japanese language school \u2013 here in San Francisco and our main activity is martial arts at World Oyama Karate, a traditional Japanese style dojo where my oldest son and I are black belts, and my younger son a green belt.<\/p>\n

Being tied to Japan through marriage, our family returns every summer and I always take the time to walk the beautiful Waseda campus, reminiscing about the experience and how it affected my life. It is a little distressing to think twenty years have gone by and how the students there seem younger and younger to my middle-aged eyes. There is nothing I\u2019d like better than to sit in the classroom again and improve my language ability, especially since my kids will soon surpass me, then make fun of my grammar mistakes.<\/p>\n

The life I lead would not be as successful nor as fulfilling without those two years at Waseda and I am very proud to call myself a former student of such an excellent institution.<\/p>\n

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My Waseda Experience 2002 – 2004 Japanese Language Student Matt Curtin \uff08\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306f\u82f1\u8a9e\u306e\u6b21\u306b\u3042\u308a\u307e\u3059\uff09 I will be forever indebted to Waseda for the language and knowledge this prestigious university has provided me. It was not only a wonderful experience but has opened doors professionally and perhaps more importantly, contributed greatly to my personal life. I took a circuitous route to the Waseda classroom. I\u2019ve always been fascinated by languages and studied Spanish and French overseas as a student at The Ohio State University. It was through these experiences that I caught the international bug and was lucky enough to secure my first job with an English teaching position at Nova in Saitama. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-en","tag-alumni-en","lang-ja"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}