{"634369":{"#nid":"634369","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Featured Alumni Story: Joshua Baldwin, School of Modern Languages","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;During my undergraduate degree, I minored in Japanese. I didn\u0026#39;t start taking Japanese until my fourth\u0026nbsp;year but wish I had gotten involved sooner. After my first semester of Japanese, I decided that I was going to take at least one Japanese class each semester until I graduated because I enjoyed the classes so much. I started looking forward to Japanese more than any other class.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETaking Japanese was one of the best decisions I made while at Tech. I have an introverted personality, but after I started taking Japanese, I met a lot of people who had similar\u0026nbsp;interests to me like anime and Japanese music. I became more involved when I joined the Japanese Student Association and participated in club activities. I even helped tutor another student who was taking Japanese.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn March of 2018, I participated in the annual Japanese Speech Contest and won the grand prize of a round-trip ticket to Japan. I attribute my success in the contest to my parents, professors, and friends who helped me practice. I was honored to be asked to be the emcee for the annual speech contest both last year and this year.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EI would encourage students at Georgia Tech to learn a foreign language. Knowing a second language opens new doors. You\u0026#39;ll discover many things that you never knew about before. For instance, I learned about Rakugo, Japanese storytelling, during my second semester at a Japanese book club held by Kyoko Masuda-sensei, and I instantly fell in love with it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven after graduating, I am still in contact with my Japanese professors. They all played a huge role in my Japanese language learning. They not only made me look forward to going to Japanese class every day, but they also took time outside of class and during office hours to help me practice my conversation skills.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E- Joshua Baldwin, B.S. in Computer Engineering, Japanese Minor, 2018; M.S. in Global Media \u0026amp; Cultures with Japanese concentration, 2021\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBaldwin has recently been accepted in to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/grad.modlangs.gatech.edu\/ms-gmc\u0022\u003EGlobal Media and Cultures master of science degree program\u003C\/a\u003E where he has chose Japanese as his concentration. His dream is to work in Japan as a software developer and is pursuing his graduate degree to aid in his endeavors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"School of Modern Languages features alumni Joshua Baldwin"}],"uid":"34815","created_gmt":"2020-04-14 19:24:43","changed_gmt":"2020-04-14 19:35:53","author":"esnelling3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634367":{"id":"634367","type":"image","title":"Featured Alumni - Joshua Baldwin 1","body":null,"created":"1586891526","gmt_created":"2020-04-14 19:12:06","changed":"1586891526","gmt_changed":"2020-04-14 19:12:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241390","name":"Joshua Baldwin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joshua%20Baldwin.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Joshua%20Baldwin.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":295367,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Joshua%20Baldwin.jpg?itok=0auofg6u"}}},"media_ids":["634367"],"groups":[{"id":"612000","name":"Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)"},{"id":"611608","name":"Global Media and Cultures (GMC)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:esnelling3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EEmily Snelling\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMarketing and Events Coordinator\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["esnelling3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}