In my first year, I studied the basic theory of marketing.

In my second year, I joined a seminar on behavioral economics. The seminar mainly consisted of case methods, debates, and paper writing. We held joint seminars with Chuo University and Kogakuin University to improve the quality of our papers. As a result, we won the Fighting Spirit Award at the Kanto Student Marketing Competition. The title of the winning paper was "Platform Strategies for Attracting UGC Creators". The paper used qualitative comparative analysis and discriminant analysis to pursue the rules of successful platforming. The presentation material of the paper is here.

I participated in a design school hosted by Goodpatch, the most famous design company in Japan. In this school, we learned Goodpatch's unique design process. Although I didn't win the competition, I was awarded the Prott prize.

I attended TECH::CAMP, a major programming school in Japan, for one month. Before joining the school, I prepped the basics of HTML, CSS & PHP on Progate. Thanks to this preparation, I was able to finish the TECH::CAMP curriculum in about 10 days. In the remaining 20 days, I challenged myself to develop an original application. In the end, we developed a Medium-like blog posting service. In order to push myself, I stayed at a hotel near TECH::CAMP, so I studied for about 300 hours in one month. Here's an interview with me from that time.