Erek Speed

Summer is fully here and once again I find myself in Japan.  This time, however, I’m not here as a tourist but as a productive member of society.  Or something like that.  Through the MIT Japan program (info here), I’ve landed an internship with everyone’s favorite gaming company Square Enix.  Square Enix is great because not only do they make games (which is fun but not always exciting) but they also have an Advanced Research Group which does cutting edge work in fields related to game technology. 

My goal (with this blog) this time around is to have short posts which generally concern one thing.  We’ll see if I’ll actually be able to work that out or not, but I’ll try.  This post represents the introduction to my stay and won’t cover anything specific.  As a preview of the next episodes, I’ll talk about my flight over here, my apartment, registering as a foreigner, and opening a bank account.  Of course, I also have posts written about non Japan related topics which I’ll post intermittently as well.  I’ll try to post some explanatory things which will help people get only the topics they want.

For now, my room: