GLFP 13期生オリエンテーションとGLFP交流会を開催しました。/ Orientation for GLFP 13th cohort and GLFP gathering party were held.
2025.01.15
2024年12月18日（水）、GLFP13期生のオリエンテーションを開催しました。先日の選考で、GLFPに参加決定した８名が集まりました。リー所長からのご挨拶のあと、13期生同士で簡単な自己紹介。GLFPらしく、学部や興味関心、バックグラウンドが異なる多種多様なメンバーが集まりました。GLFPは、1年間の米国大学への留学だけでなく、その前後にも必修カリキュラムがあるプログラム。そのため、同期のCohortとは、これから約３年間、苦労や成長を共にすることになります。
Orientation for GLFP 13th cohort was held on Wednesday, December 18 of 2024. Eight students gathered who were chosen to participate in GLFP in the screening that took place recently. After an address made by Prof. Rhee Maji, Dean of the Center for International Education, the 13th cohort students briefly introduced themselves. As GLFP students should be, they are such diverse students who are from different schools with a variety of interests and background. GLFP is a program that encompasses not only one-year study abroad at universities in the US, but also mandatory curriculums before and after the study abroad. Therefore, the same cohort of students will share various hardships as well as the progress they make for the next three years.
13期生オリエンテーションの後、GLFP生同士の交流会を開催しました。一足先に卒業し就職した10期生、来春に卒業を控える10期生、来日中の11期US生、11期早大生、一時帰国中の12期早大生、13期生の24名が参加し、ようやくコロナ禍以前のような盛り上がりを見せる会になりました。
13期生にとっては、各協定校から来日しているUS生や既に1年間の留学を経験した先輩早大生から現地での生活情報やアドバイスを直接聞くことができ、学年や学部、国籍を越えてお互いに刺激を受け、GLFPだからこそ築けるコミュニティの魅力を、早速実感できる良い機会になったのではないでしょうか。
After the orientation for the 13th cohort, we held GLFP gathering party. 24 participants, including 10th cohort who graduated and started working earlier, 10th cohort who will graduate next spring, 11th US and Waseda cohort, 12th Waseda cohort who is temporarily back home from the US, and 13th cohort, finally made the party as lively as it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the 13th cohort, it was a great opportunity to hear directly from US cohort who have come to Japan from various partner universities and senior Waseda cohort who have already experienced a year of study abroad, information and advice about life in the US, and to be stimulated by each other beyond their grade, department, and nationality, and to quickly realize the appeal of the community that can only be built through the GLFP.
