wow... I turned 23 years old today... (technically yesterday in Japan because I was born in Japan). I feel like there is a big gap between 22 yr-old and 23 yr-old... because if they go to 4yr university in Japan, 22yr-old people are still students, but 23yr-old people are supposued to be 社会人（しゃかいじん）(literally translated as 'society-person'; a person who finished a college or highschool or whatever and is working full-time in some company).
[Note: there is no such thing as 'super-senior' in Japanese universities.]
But, I am still a student! Why????
Because in the US universities (and other types of schools) start in September with a new academic year which ends in June. On the other hand, Japanese universities start in April and end in March. Besides, students in Japanese universities cannot graduate in any semester, but have to graduate academic-yearly (in March). Also, Japanese companies usually have some specific number of "new-employees" or 新卒（しんそつ）(literally translated as 'newly-graduated'; people who graduated from university within the past year) they want to hire every year. Those 新卒 people all start working in April (because they all graduate in March).
Therefore, I wasn't qualified for this year's 新卒採用（しんそつさいよう）(hiring of 新卒 people) because I couldn't graduate by March...
BUT I am qualified for the next year's 新卒採用 because I'm graduating this June!!
BUT, I am not going to work in some Japanese company by 新卒採用 cuz I first want to work as a teacher in some juku (cram school; after-school school), which irregularly hire teachers.
なんか誕生日とは全然関係ない話になっちゃったけど・・・
ima kara, I'm going to watch a Japanese movie called Hakase-no Aishita Sushiki ("Professor's beloved equation") on campus~^_^*
Ittekimasu!
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