最近自分の大学に対して文句しかなくて、とめられないのでまとめてみることにしました。読んでる人が嫌な思いをするのではなくって、大学選びの参考にしてもらえれば良いです。
To begin with, I won't tell directly which uni I go to but I'm just gonna list up characteristics of it.
まず、私の大学の特徴を。
-Girls University (well I do know the choice is limited now haha)
-女子大（選択肢がとっても狭まれられました笑）
-Used to be famous for its English education
-かつては英語教育で有名だった
-Location is bad
-キャンパスの場所が最悪
I think every complains come from the first fact, girls uni. It automatically becomes small scale. Only one faculty, limited access to everything.
Now I'm writing my thesis and what most irritates me is limited access to references. I'm interested in Sociology of Religion. There is no professor in my uni who does this study which means really really limited books in uni library. Well maybe you think why on earth I'm studying something no professor in my uni does. Well I got interested in religious studies when I did a study abroad in Bristol. I just wanted to keep doing it. Also my department focuses on international relations. I think religious studies should be in as well. This "International Relations" is really tricky thing in Japan. You basically can't study anything deeply. Basically you just get to know many things from the surface. How can you compare more than two countries or cultures even if you don't know fully about one?
These whole complains caused by me. Well I just didn't choose my uni carefully enough when I was a high school kid. In Japan, it's just bloody difficult to enter a university. You've got to remember so many stuff to get good marks which is ridiculous and meaningless personally. So lazy Ayah chan thought, if I choose only girls uni, simply I don't have to compete guys which means less people!! haha
Well for the sake of myself, I also add I was fascinated by the founder of my uni back then. I still think she is admirable but the followers haven't done a good job to preserve her good will. Anyway so I didn't research anything about universities. I just wanted to get in. I didn't know what I wanted to study, I just did know I wanted to keep studying English and do a study abroad.Apart from these, I didn't think seriously anything further so I just chose a subject which I can decide my major later on. As I mentioned before, this idea was terribly wrong....
Well I personally think if you take current Japane education, it's very difficult to know what is sociology? Business? Marketing? Everything. All I did was bloody memorising histories. Basically all you have to do is to get a good mark and get in a uni with a good reputation. it doesn't matter what you do at uni.
I hated the Japanese university idea of doing nothing. I wanted to study something even though I didn't know what I wanted to study apart from English. Well it turned out that if you want to study something, you need a good environment to do so. To make research, you need references, books and teachers. It is sad that university also needs the funds to gain all the facilities. Big well known unis have money to have all of them.
In the end, it might be true that going to famous uni is nice.... Well I just want anyone to think back the uni's facilities if you are choosing your future uni now.
多分女子大で学部が一つ、規模がちいさいっていうところが結果良くないんだと思うんだけど、とにかくすべてが不便。今卒論を書いていて一番イライラすることが本や文献にアクセスできないこと。勉強する環境がまったく整っていないのになぜか施設維持費は毎年たくさん徴収される謎。私が勉強している分野の先生が私の大学にはいないからそこからもうなんでこの大学を選んだのかしらっていうミステイク笑。それは私がとっても安易に大学を選んだから自分のミスなんだけど。留学してイギリスの大学でとった社会宗教学にとっても興味もって日本にかえってきてからもそれを勉強したいって思っただけなんだけど、まあ気づくのが遅すぎたね。そもそも、女子大を選んだ理由が高校生の時にあんまり勉強したくなくて女子校の方が競争率低いだろうとか思ったからというほんとに最悪な理由なので、もし今大学を選んでいる人がいましたら、少なくともどんな勉強をしたいかはやっぱり考えるべきなのかなと思います。
が、しかし、日本の高校教育だといまいち商学部？社会学部？経済学部？のイメージがわきにくいんだよね。少なくとも私はなんのイメージも抱けずとりあえず英語といろんな文化が学べそうな国際関係学部へ。しかし、国際とつけばなんでも学べるというとっても素敵なこの学部では、結果どんなことでも薄い知識しかつけることができないという落とし穴があることを私はしらなかったわけです。もちろん、やりようによってはちゃんと勉強できるし、国際関係学部ですばらしい成果を残している人もいるけれど、個人的にはやっぱりいろんなものを比較するときに少なくとも一つのことに精通している必要性があるとは思って、もし国際社会をやりたいのであれば、土台となる社会、私の場合だったらやっぱり生まれ育った日本社会のことをちゃんと勉強する必要があるんじゃないかと思うのです。でも、この一つの社会を学ぶのでさえもとっても奥が深くてそれこそ一生かかるのに、違う社会もってなるとなんだかやってることが少し浅いのではないかと今までの私の大学生活を振り返って思うわけです。
ここで、何を勉強するかよりも大学選びでは規模や施設の充実さが何よりも重要ではないのかなと。悲しいけれど、結局大学もビジネスの一つ。お金がなければよい設備を整えられない。結局有名な大学に行くのがいいってことになってしまうかもだけど、この設備という面から大学を選ぶことを考えてみては？？
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