先週末は外部の仕事で沖縄に行きました。
そして昨日は大学の恩師の最終講義を聞きに行きました。
どちらにも共通するのが大学・研究。
研究の世界は難易度が高く、次の研究テーマを考えて仲間を集めたり、論文を書いて発表したり。
どう社会に役立てるか考えたり、お金をどう得るかを考え、実行したり。
まぁここまでは仕事だから当たり前だと思うんだけど、研究という先の見えにくい類のもので、実績を出し、極めてノーベル賞にしてくか、もしくは多分野で実績をあげまくるか、いずれにしても相当タフだろうと思うのです。
でもそれを意気揚々とやり遂げていく人たちをたくさん見ることができ、しかも私自身は全く違うけどそんな環境に少しでも一緒にいた学生時代があったことを大切にしようと思ったのでした。
I went to Okinawa for an external mission last weekend.
I went to receive the final lecture of my professor yesterday.
The common was university and research.
I think research is high level of difficulty and where all the people should work many tasks to consider next theme, gather colleagues, write and present papers, think about how to apply them to the society, and think about how to get money and do it.
They are all not surprising as work but it is tough to make achievement visual in research which is difficult to ensure results and deepen them to the level of Nobel prize or make many achievements in many areas.
I was lucky to see many people who have done them and I decided myself proud of having been in such an environment at university even though I never have done.