On Tuesday we toured the new campus as planned, but was surprised only by how desolate it was. The school population, as I’ve been told, is about 80,000 students plus faculty and support staff, but many parts of the school are still under construction. Maybe the capacity is 80,000 students. Regardless, the ‘tour’ wasn’t as [...]
For months I’ve been in the dark about many critical issues, including when school starts. It always seemed like the strangest thing to be unknown by a school. Sure, I understand that the Chinese language courses for foreigners are operated much differently than degree courses, and approrpriately so, but I still couldn’t understand why no [...]
Put in a big order for utopian-engineered peoplehole covers, Microsoft has designed a high school:
Students — who are called “learners” — use smart cards to register attendance, open their digital lockers and track calories they consume. They carry laptops, not books, and the entire campus has wireless Internet access.
Teachers, or “educators,” rather than using blackboards, [...]
After facing many complications and sending daily essays by email, I suddenly needed a break from writing. I wanted to share two interesting views of living and/or studying abroad:
Kevin Lim (and dad) post advice for Singaporeans and others living abroad.
JAVA JIVE - Quarter Life Crisis: Part One (Life as an Expat)
(touque tip: AsiaPundit)
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Halifax (加拿大哈利法克斯市) local time is now:
05 Sep 2008 at 6:12 PM
In 2004, Justin left his job in Vancouver (温哥华) to study at Thompson Rivers University (汤普森河大学) and pursue a degree in business, with an economics major. From 2005-06 he was part of an exchange program with the Tianjin University of Technology (天津理工大学) in Tianjin, China. Instead of returning to Canada, TRU World sent Justin to Nanchang University (南昌大学) to study Mandarin Chinese. In both programs he was the first student from TRU to participate in these exchange programs in China and, in total, spent 2 years living in China.
Since returning to Canada in July 2007, Justin relocated to Canada's eastern city of Halifax (哈利法克斯) and transferred to Saint Mary's University (圣玛丽大学) to continue his business studies.
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"I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
—Stephen Grellet (1773-1855)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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