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Conversations with the President:
Learning and Living at Keio University
Mar. 29, 2019
In this exclusive President Haseyama sits down with five undergraduate and graduate students to discuss what it’s like living and learning at Keio and find out about their prospects for the future.
*All information is current as of May 2018
Part 1: Why study at Keio University
President Haseyama shares his career with the students and learns why students Patrice Eugene J. and Mayu Tampo chose to study at Keio University.
Part 2: A place to develop a social and global perspective
Takakazu Suzuki talks about studying as a doctoral candidate at the Program for Leading Graduate Schools and explains how it has helped him improve his English proficiency.
Part 3: Academic and Athletic Excellence the Standard at Keio
Yurina Ogawa, a member of the School of Medicine Tennis Club, and Yuya Gunji, the cleanup hitter for the Keio Baseball Club, discuss how they balance academics with extracurricular activities.
Part 4: Diverse Studies & Different Inroads
At the end of the interview, all of the students describe the benefits of learning at Keio and share their future goals with President Haseyama.
*This video was taken at the conversation meeting held for the special feature A Conversation with the President: Learning and Living at Keio University in the 2018 summer edition (No. 299) of Juku.
Professor Akira Haseyama
President, Keio University
Mayu Tampo
Fourth Year in the Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science
Mayu is a native of Wakayama Prefecture and recipient of the Wakayama
Mita-kai Scholarship. She is currently a member of the Keio Sports Press and hopes to become a journalist.
Yuya Gunji
Third Year in the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Yuya is the catcher and cleanup hitter for the Keio Baseball Club who helped lead Keio to victory in the 2018 Spring Tokyo Big6 Baseball League.
Patrice Eugene J.
Fourth Year in the Faculty of Letters, Major in Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Patrice Eugene is an international student from Indonesia who is currently studying modern art with Professor Koichi Toyama.
Takakazu Suzuki
First Year in the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Science and Technology
After graduating from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Takakazu began studying as part of the Program for Leading Graduate Schools in the fall of 2015.
Yurina Ogawa
Fourth Year in the School of Medicine
A graduate of the Keio Chutobu Junior High School and Keio Girls Senior High School, Yurina now studies at the School of Medicine and is an active member of the School of Medicine Tennis Club.