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- Hi, my name is Riku Kiguchi,
and I am majoring in civil engineering
at the University of Tokyo,
and I am in my fourth year.
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What's unique about the school is you get
to choose where you'd like to go after you enroll.
So the first two years of the University of Tokyo start,
everyone starts off studying liberal arts,
and so you get to study about a bit of math,
a bit of English,
science, literature, you can study anything about it,
and after the second year, you get to choose what you like
to study, and in my case,
I decided to major about civil engineering,
and the reason I chose it is
because I wanted to study something
that has a great impact on society.
U Tokyo is the best university inside Tokyo,
so it's the center of economics,
it's the center of the institution of the governments
and every major company has its capital inside Tokyo.
So it is a great environment
as a city and as a university.
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My course, it's divided into mainly three structures.
One is the building of the social infrastructure,
like building dams, parks,
roadway, transportation, the hard stuff that yeah built.
The second part is how to make,
introduce that hard structure inside society.
I think about the efficiency of introducing that structure.
And the last third part is about
international infrastructure,
so Japan is a developed country,
and its technology
and idea is probably important
to other developing countries,
so in the
third and last
department, we study about how to bring that technology
outside of Japan, and use it for the developing countries.
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This is the front of the gymnasium,
there are pools, there's a ground,
there's working space, and there's always a food truck
in front of it, and there's convenient stores,
cafes, and there's a lot of choices you can
choose your lunch from, and today, this is Korean food.
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This is Sanshiro Pond.
This is the pond that was built around the 1900s,
so it's one of the oldest places inside the campus.
Tokyo is filled with a lot of people and very,
in a way, noisy,
but when you come inside this campus,
there's always nature, and there's always a place
that you can be alone and private and relaxed out
and chill out.
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This is one of the engineering buildings,
and this is where my research lab is.
Every student gets a desk and a monitor,
and when you're a University of Tokyo student,
you get to access all the research papers for free.
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What my thesis is is
about the productivity
and the eco-friendliness of each of the buildings,
how productivity and
eco-friendliness
coincide with each other.
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When you're studying in U Tokyo, you get a lot
of chances studying abroad, and in my case,
I studied civil engineering outside of Japan
and went to Australia.
Last summer, or last spring, I went there
for an exchange student for one month,
and studied about the ramp metering, so the
decongestion between
normal road lines and freeway,
and thinking about which kind of algorithm
makes the traffic less.
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So when you prepare for U Tokyo,
you need to have passion
and an active attitude towards what you want to do.
The concrete abilities to study certain subjects,
I don't think that's very important when you enter.
What's important is
every resource is inside U Tokyo,
and every opportunity to study is here, so
the most important thing is that you act
towards what you want to do, because everything is here.
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