Recent thoughts: Grad School Entrance Exam + Sustainability in Design

For the past few weeks I was home for the holidays and had a lot of time to think about what I want to accomplish in 2016.  Before I went back home, I had spent the last couple of months diligently preparing for the graduate school entrance exam for the Design Strategy department at Kyushu University (the same uni where I'm a research student now).  Just as a bit of background information, the exam is 100% in Japanese and involves writing essays on design, memorizing quite a lot of design terminology I'd never heard of, and a presentation and interview with some of the faculty.  As you can guess, I was more than a little nervous about passing.  However, I somehow must have convinced them, because just in time before I headed home for the holidays, I found out that I passed!  

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