Placement essay: Advice to my kouhai

Hello, sophomore. I’m Rina Takamoto, and I am a senior. Please call me Rina senpai. Have you got used to a university life? Were you able to make friends? Do you have a part-time job? How many credits did you get last year? Do you enjoy your university life? Today, I will give you some advice. How many subjects do you take this year? In this year, sophomores must take 48 credits as the upper limit by 30 credits together a first semester for spring semester of this year. University is different from high school, so you decide one's class schedule by oneself and must file for the study registration. Do you understand that? You must never lose the credit in required subject. In addition, you must get 124 credits before you graduate from Kumamoto Gakuen University.

By the way, do you have driver’s license? Yes or no? I think that you should acquire the driver’s license. Why? This is because it is convenient for job hunting. When you have a driver’s license, it is very convenient. Why? This is because it may be asked as reference in the interview even if it is not work to need the driving of the car.

Do you have a credit card? Even university students can make a credit card. When you buy overseas travel and an expensive thing, the credit card is very helpful other than time doing shopping in the Internet.

Did you go for study abroad last year? Which country did you go? It is “foreign countries” to want you to experience it if you become a sophomore, and a junior. It is good to go as a trip and studying abroad with your friends. However, it is to go abroad that I recommend. It is very good for you. It is to know a foreign atmosphere and the culture to be the most important.

That’s all. Please enjoy your university life. Good luck.

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