Wellesley College students on the Ted Wang Fellowship program will periodically update this blog with their experiences in East Asia. Check back often for updates!
안녕하세요! My name is Farida Moustafa and I am an Architecture major/Korean minor at Wellesley and the 2024 Ted Wang Fellow for South Korea. I had the honor of interning at the Seoul National Un...Read More
Purely to feed my own interests, one of the courses I am taking this semester is an introductory class to Japanese literature. This course has the largest amount of students enrolled among my classes,...Read More
はじめまして! (It’s nice to meet you!) My name is Alexa Fronczek-Lewis and I’m a junior Anthropology major with an EALC/Japanese minor. I am studying abroad at Sophia University, and the sem...Read More
In this interconnected world, the adage that “the world is smaller than we think” rings especially true. This was vividly illustrated when I reconnected with an alum from my school via Lin...Read More
Networking through LinkedIn once again proved its value when I connected with another inspiring alum. This particular alum stood out not just for her impressive career trajectory from consulting to te...Read More
Meeting an alum who has devoted nearly her entire career to investment banking provided a unique perspective into a world I was tentatively considering as part of my future. Our conversation proved pi...Read More
Sister Kathleen volunteers once a week in the Children’s Ward at the Tokyo Cancer Hospital. When she started, decades ago now, she was made to sign an agreement that she would not proselytize to her...Read More
On Wednesday evening, 06/14, Sophia University held a symposium entitled “How can Japan, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the United Nations work to...Read More
May 23, 2023 My last interview was with Yuan Yao Su, a product designer and manager at SysJust. She majored in communications and currently works in UIUX (User Interface and User Experience) design. S...Read More
April 12, 2023 My third interview was with Professor Robin Bing-yu Chen, a professor in National Taiwan University’s Information Management Department. Along with his position as a professor, Profes...Read More