Alumna Megumi Uchino FLA/FCC ‘09 was a Dean’s Honor Recipient during the 2006-2007 school year. Now she works for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Jakarta, Indonesia. She delivered a presentation to FLA students on “Navigating Your Career Path toward the United Nations” in 2019. The FLA office recently spoke with Megumi about her…

I first came to Sophia as an exchange student in 2004-05, before transferring and then graduating in 2007. When I was looking for the right university － and program － to attend in Japan, the one that really got my attention was Sophia University’s FCC (Faculty of Comparative Culture). FCC had something many universities didn’t,…

After high school, I had the opportunity to travel to, and live in, many countries around the world. I did this for about nine years. During that time, I visited Japan – a country that I came to be very attached to. In 1996, I made a life-turning decision to return to America and pursue…

After graduating from Sophia University in 2009, I moved to the US to pursue an MBA at Yale School of Management. I am currently in a three-program called the Silver Scholar Program, which provides an opportunity for college seniors to enter an MBA program right after graduation. I spent the first year at Yale School…

I am a serial entrepreneur. I grew up in Hawaii and first came to Japan on an exchange program in 1981 after graduating from high school. I transferred to Sophia in 1984 after studying business and Japanese at University of Hawaii and International Christian University. To the relief of my parents I finally graduated cum…

I have enrolled at Sophia University three times and I am presently studying in the PhD program of the Graduate School of Global Studies. I am now in the process of taking tutorials with my dissertation mentor to decide on the theme for my doctoral thesis. I first became a student of Sophia in 1977,…

For me, Sophia was the first exposure to an international academic environment. I was overwhelmed at first because of the language gap and classroom atmosphere where students were expected to participate and contribute. I enjoyed meeting people from diverse backgrounds. I was particularly inspired by the other female students – they were independent, motivated, and…

I was fortunate to spend 3 years abroad when I was a high school student. However, after graduation, I wanted to come back to Japan to go to university. But I feared losing my English skill if I were to go to an ordinary Japanese university, so I chose FLA to keep up my English…

Heading into the senior year in high school, I still had not settled on what to study in college or where to apply, and time to make the decision was running out, if not already out. One day, it dawned on me that I just was not ready to pick a specialty or a career…