My impression of lecture from Dr. Paul Wadden

It was so interesting for me, a person who actually wanted to go to the American university, to learn the difference between universities in U.S. and Japan.  I was inspired a lot and also felt that I am lucky to be a ICU student.
Honestly speaking, when I was a high school student, I really hated to go to a university in Japan because I have a strong image that most of Japanese university students do not study in a university even though they really study hard to pass the entrance exam.  I couldn't understand those people's feeling and always wondered why it is so.
Dr. Paul said that American high school students are busy in personal explosion while Japanese students study hard, and when students in American university are studying a lot to graduate, Japanese students are absorbed in personal explosion. Also he suggested, "Qualities stressed in high school tend to be the most important in a society, for almost everyone goes to high school. For further development, however, other parts of character need to be cultivated." Those proposal was quite understandable for me.
I think I should appreciate the circumstance of ICU and want to spend great time for four years with making a good use of  the advantages like he mentioned.