Taemaitree Farsai is a first year AMC
student from Bangkok, Thailand. Since
her high school years, she has been accustomed to doing research with fine
experimental tools. So she always wanted
to go to the university with the best chemistry department in Japan. “Tohoku University’s motto ‘research first’
is exactly the same as that of my high school,” she says. Her goal is now to become a chemist in the
future.
Farsai participated in a three-week program
at Ritsumeikan in Kyoto last year. However,
her encounter with the Japanese academic world happened earlier than that. Tohoku University’s professors often visit
high schools around the world to promote the FGL program, and professors from
the chemistry department visited her high school. This helped her learn about Tohoku University
and the course, which lead her to decide to apply.
Now, four months have passed since the
start of university life. According to
her, the lectures are tough and impressive at the same time, and her favorite
class is Chemistry A by Professor Zhanpeisov.
“Because I get to know about
things that I had never known before,” she says.