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The best people never stop going (Zhuangzi)

Faculty of Commerce
Masanori Yokoyama

These words are from Zhuangzi and are understood to explain the need for progress through ingenuity. Amidst the paradigm shift that continues from the pandemic, the new society in which you will face will be forced to change, and you will be required to act without being bound by preconceptions. From now on, it will probably be a repetition of trial and error, and in some cases, a repetition of error and error. Take advantage of the intellectual inquisitive spirit you cultivated during your student life and challenge your own possibilities while enjoying the unknown world. I wish you all the best in your endeavors.

I have never failed (Thomas Edison)

Faculty of Science and Engineering
Shigeki Sugano

Thomas Edison created many inventions including the light bulb. This quote is widely known as a symbol of his philosophy as an engineer. The original text is "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." The important thing is to see everything positively and to make an effort. My motto is to always look ahead and move forward. I hope that you will take on challenges positively in order to create new science and technology and a new society.

Education is not preparation for life, but life itself (Dewey)

Faculty of Social Sciences
Osamu Soda

These are the words of an American philosopher and educator. Change is accelerating in these turbulent times. Learning is lifelong. After graduating from university, opportunities to study will become more and more distant unless you create them yourself. If relearning is fun, life will be fun, and if learning is rich, life will be rich. Waseda University is a community platform for lifelong learning. Please cherish your friends who have known you well since your school days and who will continue to encourage and help you grow. Develop even greater connections through learning. See you at Waseda!

Connecting people and knowledge

Faculty of Human Sciences
Hiroyuki Mishima

Human science is to contribute to society with a multifaceted and comprehensive understanding of reality by bridging the divide between disciplines using multidisciplinary methods, while maintaining a deep respect for humanity, which is often regarded as a neglected part of society's accelerating development. School of Human Sciences The encounters between people and the fusion of knowledge and knowledge at the Graduate School will be the foundation for discovering the values of a new age, which could not be found by simply acquiring individual knowledge. I hope that your encounters and studies at Waseda will bear fruit for your own happiness and the happiness of the world around you.

You will never grow unless you challenge yourself to do more than you can (Ralph Emerson)

Faculty of Sport Sciences
Hirotaka Matsuoka

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow (Emerson).” 皆さんは大学生活の中で、それまで自分ができなかったことに数多く挑戦したことと思います。だから、成長できたのではないでしょうか。ただし、ここで止まらないでください。これからも、やったことのないこと、できないこと、小さくても構わないので新たなチャレンジを続けてください。そして、それを達成したときの喜びを感じ続けてください。卒業してからも、皆さんには成長する可能性が大いにあります。

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. (Carl Sagan)

Faculty of International Research and Education
Satoshi Inaba

These are the words of Carl Sagan. Currently, the world is in a situation where it is difficult to predict the future even for a moment due to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and conflicts between Israeli and Palestinian armed groups. Utilize what you learned at Waseda University to understand the values of diverse countries, and as a human being living on this earth beyond your own choices and preferences, think of what you think is good for society. Please go ahead and put it into practice. I look forward to your success as a leader who meets and has great discussions with a variety of people, believes in the potential of yourself and your colleagues, and contributes to the world.

"There's still half left."

Art and Architecture School principal
Nobuaki Furuya

A notice issued by Takamasa Yoshizaka as head of School of Science and Engineering in July 1969 during a university dispute. It depicts a man holding a glass half full of wine and smiling, saying, "There's still half left," and another man sadly saying, "There's only half left. Yoshizaka wants to follow the theory of the smiling man. Yoshisaka says that he would like to follow the smiling man's theory, which shows that the same situation can be viewed positively or negatively, depending on how you look at it. When you wake up in the middle of the night and the futon falls off the bed, do you re-cover the futon or do you crawl under it?