The Best Auditing Student of the Year 2010 Award

Issei Takehara (27) has once again shaken the media

by winning the award for the best auditing student of the year, an award founded by the Academic Society of London in 1661, honouring those students who have not registered for a class yet have shown an extreme dedication by attending each class, oftentimes exceeding the attendance rate of those who are registered students.Some of the past award winners include Robert Fludd, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, John Fleming, Albert Einstein, John F. Kennedy, and Antonio Banderas. “I did not know I was competing for an award,” the awarded student tells us, “I just wanted to audit a class.” The professor in his auditing class earlier spoke to us about how he felt about Mr. Takehara, “Usually, when students say they want to audit a class, they show up for about 5 or 6 classes, and then suddenly disappear,” the professor sipped his cup of coffee as he told us the story, “but it wasn’t the case for him [Mr. Takehara]. It just wasn’t.” Mr. Takehara, when asked of his future goals, responded that “I just like auditing, you know? And I think I will keep auditing as long as my passion lasts.”