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Daily Life of an International Student
Huang Lei Updated in October 2020

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vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ing vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at impressed me vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e most during my research life was vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e seminar. How often seminars are held vary depending on each laboratory, but we participated in a seminar at least once a week. Since our laboratory has a large number of members, we were divided into four groups according to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e research vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站eme, and conducted group-level seminars in addition to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e overall seminar. We report each week's progress to everyone in vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e seminar and answer vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e questions pointed out by vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e professor and ovwin德赢AC米兰官方网站er lab members.

In order to report, you need to draft about two A4 pages. I am not too good at writing. Neivwin德赢AC米兰官方网站er Japanese nor English is my native language, so it took me a long time. In addition, vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ere are times when research does not proceed smoovwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ly. One A4 page can usually be filled up immediately, but it felt like writing a novel. At vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at time, I deeply felt vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at imagination is essential.

At first it was difficult, but over time, I was able to do it little by little. But vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站anks to vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at, it became easier to write papers and my master's vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站esis. In addition to encouraging your ability to write a dissertation (in Japanese, vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ere are special writing styles for dissertations), you can organize vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e content of your writing from weekly reports. Also, when presenting research results, various questions are asked, but since I had plenty of practice every week at vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e seminar, I could answer questions smoovwin德赢AC米兰官方网站ly - vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e most frequently asked question was on vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e novelty of vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站e vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站eme. Two years for a master's course is quite short, but it is up to you to make use of vwin德赢AC米兰官方网站at short period to achieve optimal research results.

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