About Me
My name is Akiyo. It’s written 陽世 in Japanese. I have an unusual name with an even more unusual kanji writing for it.
I was born in Hirakata-shi, Osaka prefecture, Japan, grew up in Southern California (LA and OC), and currently live in Portland, Oregon. I am a proud alumna of the University of Southern California, where I double-majored in Cinema-Television (Critical Studies emphasis) and Psychology.
My normal and strange interests include: film, social psychology, running, food/restaurants, free or cheap events around town, travel, hiking, college football (Fight On Trojans!), cats, and…The X-Files.
Read my very first post to see my impetus for this blog and put everything into context.
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tokyo5 | August 6, 2008 at 1:26 am
I’m the other way around.
I was born in America…but have lived in Japan since 1990.
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Kitsune | August 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Hi Akiyo. Nice to meet a fellow psychology graduate
Has majoring in psychology helped you with your other major in Critical Cinema-Television Studies?
Since jobs for people with undergraduate degree in psychology are quite limited, have you dedicated yourself to the cinema side?
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Akiyo Horiguchi | August 12, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi! It could just be because I went to a school that has a famous film school but generally not a strong psych program, but I found my Cinema classes to be fairly challenging and my psych classes to be easy.
Creative/entertainment/arts jobs are difficult to find, though I continue to try. But I’ll never regret my studies in either major, and I think it just helps to *have* a degree, whatever it may be in.
Good luck!