We've finished the third week of classes in the new school year. (And, whew, Golden Week is about to begin, so, due to my schedule, I'm going to have about eight delicious days off now :-)
Something I've noticed, not for the first time... My poor fourth year seminar students! They are in the midst of job hunting and so are stressed and busy, often having to miss class to go to an interview or a "setsumei kai" (explanation meeting) and so on, often coming to class wearing their interview business suits (male and female), having to get their hair back to their natural black color (most of them like to dye their hair different shades of brown), and so on. Still more. Unlike the usual case in America (I'm pretty sure), they don't just have one interview for a given company. Instead, they usually have about three, so that even if they pass the first one, they still have to do a second, and even if they pass that, a third, and so on. That means they're often interviewing. I realized that in my life I only had two interviews: once for a part time job working in a hospital cafeteria during summer vacation and once for the Henry Ford Community College job that I applied for (and received an offer for, though I finally decided to accept Kagoshima University's offer instead). Preparing for and performing in the latter interview was such an intense experience that I never wanted to go through anything like it again (even though it ended successfully), so I feel very sorry for my students who are now in the midst of umpteen such events... It also makes me wish (not for the first time) that the Japanese system was not such that students must begin job hunting in the start of their last year of college rather than near the end of it (or after it). It does make it difficult for them to focus on classwork... ANYWAY, I wish them well!
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