What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret? 

“Just like the motto of the NBA Boston Celtics: “What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret?”, so, I enrich my life and do my best to work hard every day.” 

Zun LIU
Department of Gene Expression Regulation
Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer

What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret?

Sendai is a quiet city compared to Tokyo where I lived and studied at a language school in Shinjuku for a year. Also, winters in Sendai are not as cold as that of my hometown in Shenyang, China; the summers here are also not as hot as Tokyo. There are also not as many typhoons and earthquakes in Sendai as there are in Tokyo, which makes this city a very suitable and comfortable place to live.

After graduating from the language school in Tokyo, I came to IDAC to be a research student at the Department of Gene Expression Regulation (DGER), where I am now a 1st year master’s student. Under the kind guidance of DGER teachers, I have mastered many experiments in the past six months. Although the course workload and pressure is not that high, there are still many skills I have to learn. Just like the motto of the NBA Boston Celtics: “What hurts more, the pain of hard work or the pain of regret?”, so, I enrich my life and do my best to work hard every day.