In their first year in Tokyo Tech, GSEP students take the Tokyo Tech Visionary Project course. This is a special compulsory course from the Institute of Liberal Arts offered to all of the first year students at Tokyo Tech. The students are encouraged to recognize and develop their aims through self-analysis and self-directing. Each week, the students had different speakers as resource persons tackling topics such as Music, Japanese food, Media and other relevant topics. At the last session, after listening to all of the invited speakers in this course, it’s the students’ turn to speak. Each student is asked to choose a keyword that best represents their vision.
This year, Ms. Yap Tee Ying, our GSEP student from Malaysia was chosen as the best presenter during the student presentation in the class. She was chosen by her classmates and her teachers, because of her excellent presentation. For her final presentation, Ying chose the word “IMPACT” to best represent her vision as a student in Tokyo Tech. The essay below elaborates more on her thoughts, vision, and how it all relates to her stay here as a GSEP student.
Tokyo Tech Visionary Project (GSEP) Best Final Presentation : Yap Tee Ying
As technology is rapidly growing, no field or industry is spared from the need to evolve and adjust to an ever-changing landscape. At one time, people were solely focused on specializing in one field. Today, we are moving away from that and encouraging interdisciplinary learning. Interdisciplinary learning allows us to nurture diverse skills across domains and consolidate them to create innovative ideas.
Being in the Global Scientists and Engineers Program, I have the opportunity to learn about a wide array of topics such as media globalization and engineering ethics through the Tokyo Tech Visionary Project lecture series. To me, each lecture represents a skill or an attribute that an engineer should possess. Leadership, interdisciplinary knowledge, effective communication skills, resourcefulness and the ability to adapt in this era of constant change. After these past few weeks of participating in the lectures, I realized that the speakers all have one thing in common: passion. Due to their passion, they do great work in their respective fields, and each of them has left a lasting impact on the students in different ways. They greatly motivated me to pursue my vision, which is to make a positive impact on people’s lives, no matter how big or small of an impact it is.
In one of the lectures, we discussed about happiness. For me, I feel the happiest when I can change someone’s life for the better. Using the knowledge I gained from this program, I want to make education for science and technology fun again, especially for children. Education is the most impactful tool that you can use to change the world. I want to teach programming in a fun and engaging way because programming is where I discovered my love of creating and building things.
They say opportunities belong to those who are prepared for it. That is why I want to fully utilize these 4 years of studies to learn from my lecturers and my peers, so that one day I could achieve my vision. The way GSEP is set up challenges me to become a better version of myself each day. I am excited to see what lies ahead for me in Tokyo Tech.
“The future belongs to the integrators.” – Ernest Boyer
Ying accepting the Best Presenter Award from Prof. Abe