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Introduce yourself
Topic Started: 21 Jan 2010, 15:06 (2,472 Views)
bobsfougarakhs

Hello everyone,

I am Vangelis. First time applicant from Greece. Currently studying Electrical and Computer Engineering in Athens.

Good luck to everyone
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rafal

Hello to all of you! I'm Rafal and I come from Poland. I'm studying computer science. It's my first application. I'm happy to meet you guys! Good luck!
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net02
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Hi guys! I'm Daniele, from Italy.. fifth year studying computer engineering and first application to Vulcanus.

Good luck to everyone and as Dimo already said, hope to see you all in Bruxelles ;)
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wursha

hey buddies!

another enthusiastic victim of vulcanus here. i'm ursa from slovenia (diverse country shaped like chicken). ;)
i'm the third year of geodetic engineering and i hope we meet someday.

veliko srece-good luck-mucha suerte-viel gluck-срећно-sretno-頑張って!!!
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Raul

Hi, my name is Raul. It's my first application and I'm studying Computer Science Engineering in Cordoba, Spain. It's my fourth year.

I wish you good luck to everyone.
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Ema

Manu
28 Jan 2010, 19:22

If you did an internship at NTT Communications, I assume you were (and still are) specialised in Telecommunications, or at least Electrical/Computer Engineering/Science. Is that correct?
Furthermore, did you have any previous specific knowledge on speech synthesis/automated translation before starting your internship?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

Manu
Hello Manu, sorry for the late reply. Busy life recently...
Coming to your questions:
You are correct, I am software engineer, working mostly on web applications.
Before starting the internship, actually, I was already quite interested in automatic translation software, and I also developed a small very basic translator for Japanese language.
Maybe this is why they choose me for that internship.
This is still my passion, and even if I do different things in my daily life, I hope to have the time and luck to spend myself for this reseach.

Nevertheless, I have to tell you that in the internship I found that my company was a little "rusty" in new technology. Japanese people are quite conservative, and I'd say also "jealous" of their efforts.
For me, this meant I had to work with 5 years old SW only, without any tool for automatic development (no Eclipse, no ANT...)
I learnt a lot of things, yes, but I had to learn also a lot of scripting for very low level debugging...

Not all the Companies are this way, many of them offer really interesting experiences.
You will live a great great year, in any case!!
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ricksol

Hi guys, I'm Riccardo from Milan, studying mechanical engineering. First time applicant.

Good luck to everyone!
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medis

Hi,

here is raul from Barcelona, industrial engineering. Hope to see you in Brussels!

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Wally

My name is Wally, I was with the Vulcanus program from 2007/2008.

Good luck everyone. I'll see if I can get you some interesting links and whatnots for you to help prepare about Japan
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aelle

Hi all! I am aelle (Raphaelle IRL), from France, former Vulcanus in Japan participant ('07-'08 session). A bunch of you have found my blog and we may have exchanged a bunch of emails when you were filling in your applications...

I guess the questions to Ema could apply to all of us former participants?

GenGis_K
 

It was three years ago now, what have you done since then ? (Studies, work, came back to Japan ...)


Finished my studies (1 year) and got a job since June.

GenGis_K
 

Was this experience valuable for your career or in fact just a great year abroad ?

Definitely valuable. I work in a French company, but in close relation with Asia, and will move to run our Seoul office soon.
The people who have gotten the most out of their Vulcanus year seem to be the ones that were done with their studies (could stay in Japan, get hired right away, get the most out of their network there), but even if it's not the case, it can be at your advantage for future employment.

GenGis_K
 

Where did you do your internship ?

Hitachi Works, Hitachi (mechanical engineering, thermal power plants department).

If you have any more questions, ask away!
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Wally

Oh right, I suppose I could answer those as well.

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what have you done since returning from Japan

Trying to finish school. Doing final thesis now. How much longer could that take? (Don't answer that). But also got involved in the local rinjinkai (隣人)

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Was this experience valuable for your career or in fact just a great year abroad ?

Did I get a job out of it? No. I did get an offer to do a PhD, but I declined. Directly, the influence is still hard to measure. Indirectly, it is easier. It's been an incredible learning experience and it looks fucking fantastic on my resume. Vulcanus'll go a long way in my future.
Don't discount the great year abroad though. Japan's awesome.

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Where did you do your internship ?

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Transmissions & Distribution systems center
Switchgear Insulation Technology Sec. Research and Development Department
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FFF

I read that last year there were some companies wich didnt reply to any application, although they registered for the programme. Should we be scared about it?

Some questions for everyone: have you been abroad as Erasmus students? Are u working right now? My answer for both questions is yes.
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Manu

Hi everyone,

It's good to see that some more 'Alumni' joined this forum and answered our questions about the programme :)

@FFF: to answer your question, I've been to Karlsruhe, Germany, last year as an Erasmus student for two semesters. It was a very nice experience!
You could say I'm working right now, since I just started my Master's Thesis in the telecom. department of my University although I'm not literally 'working' (like in a company).

Hope that helps ;)
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Andrea

Hi everyone!

My name's Andrea, like you I applied for Vulcanus in Japan 2010/2011.
I'm from Italy, I'm enrolled at Politecnico of Milan, 5th year of chemical engineering. At the moment I'm involved in the double degree programme T.I.M.E., so I'm living and studying in Liège since September 2008.
Today I received an email from my coordinator in Milan, saying that I'm short-listed. So, hope to see you soon!
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jbLuka

Hello,
I'm Luka coming from Slovenia, studying last semester of Chemical Engineering, very interested in material science and excited about Japan.

Hope to meet you in July, Good luck!
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diskotech

Hello everyone!

Time to introduce myself too :)

My name is Nadia and I'm from Greece. I'm studying Electrical and Computer Engineering and I'm applying to Vulcanus for the second time. I'm much more confident this time, but still I guess there are many things that could go wrong :-/

I'm already starting to get a little bit too anxious about the results, but thinking that the first time my (negative) answer came at the end of May, I should save my nerves for later...

Hope to meet you all in July :)
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Boulayo

Hi people! I'm Leonardo, from Italy, and I'm one of the lucky applicants in the short-list :-D
I'm attending Media Science at the Tor Vergata university (Rome).
I love Japan, i'm interested in it's culture, and (many of you maybe will stuck up the nose) i'm an "otaku" (in the occidental meaning), so i'm very happy to have this possibility offered me by Vulcanus :-)
I wish good luck to all!
I hope to see you in July!
Edited by Boulayo, 26 Apr 2010, 00:53.
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