Humans of Honors: Will Hanvey

“I spent 2023 almost entirely in Asia, first studying abroad at the University of Tokyo, where I took classes on Japanese politics and international relations. While there, I traveled all over Japan, visiting all 47 Japanese prefectures. Afterward, I did a co-op at the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation in Taipei- the first international think tank headquartered in Taiwan. I got to make use of both sides of my combined Data Science and International Affairs degree while meeting a lot of people in the Taiwanese political and business sphere, from Taiwanese legislators to CEOs, and made a lot of good connections with cool people. I took advantage of my weekends and holidays in Taiwan to explore the country and a wide variety of places in Southeast Asia, from seeing elephants in Chiang Mai, Thailand (pictured) to swimming with whale sharks in Cebu, the Philippines. While I was back in Boston for Spring, in August, I will be returning to Japan to do a Data Science co-op for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp professional baseball team, where I plan to continue improving both my coding skills and my Japanese language abilities.”