【JASSO】アメリカ留学への給付型奨学金〜What will you do upon graduation?〜

こういった方向けの記事です。

本記事では、JASSO日本学生支援機構学部学位取得型受験生が出願書類についての採用学生のアイディアを掴めるように、当時の私応募書類を参考にしながらご紹介していきます。

Hi, guys! This is Taiki Okano, an international student at Lawrence University in WI. This is the English translation version of my essay toward the JASSO scholarship! If you want to read the Japanese version, click HERE!

➊How will you look like after undergraduate education?

I believe that through studying abroad, I can become a person who has acquired the necessary skills to work for an international organization. I believe that I can be a person who can change the consciousness of different cultures and logically disseminate information through discussions that are held in close relationships with professors and students in small-group classes with many international students and minorities. Also, through internships, I believe that I will be able to gain practical experience and gain a relationship with the real world without having to finish with a desk study.

❷What is your plan after undergraduate education?

To be able to work as an international organization, you must have a masters degree or higher, several years of professional experience, and be able to perform your duties in English or French. After graduating from university, I would like to work for a multinational company for several years, rather than going directly to graduate school. By utilizing the broad education, I learned at university, I believe that there are things that can be acquired by managing the relationship between companies and the economy of the country, not just economics as desk work. By majoring in advanced economics in graduate school with the experience and ideas I gained during my several years of working for a company, I believe that I could gain meaningful knowledge through graduate school. I could think about the relationship between the actual economy and the economy in the lecture. After graduating from graduate school, I will apply for the JPO dispatch system and would like to work as a representative of Japan and an international organization to solve economic problems.

➌How will your human network look like?

The globalization of the economy makes it difficult to solve global economic problems with the values of one country. Though working at a multinational company, I believe that the relationship between the economy of the country and the growth of the company will be more meaningful by matching the content of the graduate school with modern society. In addition to liberal arts, I would like to build a network with highly-minded people who meet not only in multinational companies or graduate school. I believe that this network will help me grow as a mutual person and myself as a consultant in solving various difficulties faced by working at international organizations. At liberal arts universities, I want to make use of the benefits of the homely community to create friendships that can be trusted by each other in our communal lives.

❹What will you do for your dream within 20~30 years?

To realize our dream, we are required to overcome many difficulties such as studying at liberal arts universities, graduate school studies, and multinational companies. By maximizing the development of networks and expert knowledge and experience in line with the actual situation, we would like to contribute as a human resource who can be ready to make actions in international organizations. Also, I recognize that the globalized economy is constantly changing, and I want to make efforts to grasp economic trends in real-time by utilizing various media.

❺How will you contribute to Japan and communities?

I believe that by working as a macroeconomic expert at an international organization to solve economic problems, I will contribute to the improvement of the global economic environment. The progress of the globalized world economy is taking place on a global scale, including in Japan. I believe that my success in the international community will give hope to future generations who will continue to follow me. Also, as I prepared to study in the United States, I had a hard time because I didn’t have sufficient information. That is why I want to help many young people by providing information to get out of their comfort zone and play an active role in the international community. At the university where I will study, I will participate in international student organizations and deepen cultural exchanges with local Americans and other international students so that I can respond to the wishes of universities that are seeking diversification. I also want to share my unique ideas because I have a different background than the local students.

まとめ：就職・大学院進学・その他など、大学卒業後の進路を曖昧でも良いので確立置くことが必要！変更はいつでもできるが、計画的に！

JASSO日本学生支援機構学部学位取得型の応募書類には決められた枠内であれば表現方法は自由となっています。

しかし、質問事項に番号が振られている説明文の意図を汲み取り、審査員の方が応募者の回答をたどれるような構成には最低限する必要があると思います。

私の応募書類は全ての番号が質問事項に一致するように応募書類を作成しました。

また、表、グラフ、写真を用いるのも有効ではないかと思いました。

実際に私はエクセルから表を取り込み４年間の留学計画を時系列で説明するために利用しました。

最後に…

海外留学の費用を工面するために給付型の奨学金を探している方も多いのではないでしゅうか？

奨学金の募集要項などの情報は毎年更新されていますが、検索をしてたどり着いた情報が更新されておらず使えない経験をされた方もいるのではないでしょうか？

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