<p>well i’m not a chinese… from Korea but I lived in Beijing for two years. I went to Huijia Xuexiao anyone from there? hehe</p>
<p>oh my goodness… lunnyisvet
i went to huijia (汇佳) too 
the one in changping rite？</p>
<p>omg omg omg HELLO friedmoon!
YEA the changping one haha
i’m so amazed that i can meet a person from same school haha</p>
<p>haha okay yes…this is kinda crazy!!
if you’re korean then i guess u were in the “WaiGuo LiuXueSheng Bu” lol</p>
<p>so where r u now？</p>
<p>LOL yes i was in the liuxuesheng bu, i’m in US right now and hs senior
I think i will go Purdue or RPI or Virginia Tech next year.</p>
<p>how about you?</p>
<p>who is mit dreamer?</p>
<p>yryuan i love u</p>
<p>cuz now i cant stop listening to that song</p>
<p>hehe thx. yea sometimes I can’t help listening to one song over and over again either.
wow lunny and friedmoon, I am so jealous. I can’t even find one person who is from my hometown. so why did you not stay in huijia? do people there tend to study abroad?</p>
<p>it was a good school, but i just wanted to study in america. and yes, i think many people in huijia was thinking to study abroad… when i was there, there was a guodi bu which is for students who want to study abroad(i guess -_-a). also my two roomates were planning to study in canada.</p>
<p>question for everyone:do you guys know where you’re going after college?i mean,i know it’s a little early being a freshman and all,but i’ve been thinking about it.will you guys stay here or go back to china or wherever?</p>
<p>It is too early for me. I am still a high school senior.
Unlike you guys who are international students, I am US citizen. So I will be staying in America for the rest of my pathetic life. I will definitely go back to China sometimes in the near future.</p>
<p>My main reason is that I can live in luxury with US dollars in China. My dad bought a Window XP software for only twelve yuen in China, whereas if he bought it in America it would be 300 US dollars.</p>
<p>hm… i made intensive plans lol… if i accomplish them, then i’ll die hapy. 4 years undergrad: major - chinese language + economics, minor - mathematics, abroad junior year to china 2nd semester. summer programs in china + wintersession, hopefully finding a good internship. still finishing premed requirements *just in case… it might come in useful later on anyhow.
gradschool: aiming for harvard joint business + law program - international trade law… this’ll take like 4 years. by then i’m 26, and hopefully finding a job in china that will allow me to stay most of the times in china, with frequent brief travelling opportunities to u.s. or other countriets. so i’ll have a strong language background, with a degree in business + law, and familliar with math for econstats and chem in case the company is like a pharmaceudical company or something</p>
<p>wow,u really have it all figured out.
i’m shooting for premed,but i wanna go back to china!! i don’t think i want to stay here. ok i definitely don’t want to stay here, at least not now. why are u taking premed requirements xo? aren’t u just doing business/law/international trade? maybe i should take international trade or something, just so i have a chance for a job in china.
oooo i don’t know.</p>
<p>Amazing future planning xokandykyssesox!! My best wishes! :)</p>
<p>well… i walked in to college thinking i was going to do biochem and eventually go to medschool, but then… chemistry started sucking away my soul… these 1.5 semester has made me realize, if this is going to be the rest of my life, then i might as well drop out of college and open a bubbletea cafe… yes… i was hating chemistry that much. i already hated physics in highschool, so theres no hope there, the only thing that i like is biology, but i dont see a future of just bio. at the same time i was loving econ and chinese sooo much… like i havent taken chinese, but i just loooove reading chinese books, and watching chinese drama helps too cuz i read the bottom and increase my vocab… i love watching drama lol its like such a leisure, and at the same time it can be soo educational, like i learned half the stuff for polisci of china last semester from watching zou xiang gong he… oh i had a white professor what did he know… just the basics, which the movie covered pretty well in nice chronological order. </p>
<p>im still doing premed cuz i cant get over the shock. 4 years of highschool, thinking science was defnitely my future (i never took econ in highschool, but i took the waiver, and the econ textbook was like a joy to read for me) and then i get to college and see science and go Lord have mercy!.. im just afraid that i might change my mind and then itll be so hard to finish if i dont get all the science requriements out of the way.</p>
<p>lunny i’m in england rite now. i’m probably going to uni in london, but i’m waiting for US results to make a final decision.
purdue & VA tech? coool. i guess you’re a sciency person, hehe [i’m hopelessly un-sciencey].
…and how did u like huijia’s “korean restaurant”? lol:D i always wondered if the koreans thought it tasted awful compared to home stuff.</p>
<p>—yryuan huijia has a buncha different departments. there’s the 外国留学生部 which lunny was part of, and lots of others including a ground-breaking but pretty inexperienced IB department [which i was part of]. so it’s mainly chinese students, but yea many of them work towards studying abroad =) </p>
<p>—wooow kandykysses those are pretty intensive plans. looks good tho!</p>
<p>i think after a certain amount of post-college work experience, i’d definitely wanna return to china. family’s there.
oh, and the food. the food.</p>
<p>
hahahaha
bubbletea:D:D
i haven’t had one for SO long</p>
<p>hmmm,i haven’t heard one positive answer for staying in the US yet.things are really changing.it used to be us chinese people fighting to death to stay here.now we’re going back by CHOICE.isn’t this amazing?
CHINA ROCKS!!!
well,xo,science probably really hard in ur school.i don’t go to an elite school so the science’s not as intimidating.i guess it’s good in a sense but bad in another.i don’t know.i think i’ll just take the classes for premed and maybe some international relation courses,just in case.</p>
<p>yea it’s not easy to find a good job right after a foreign college in China these days, because there are so many people like this. but if you are like xo(graduating from harvard with a business-law degree), things would be different.
what I want to do? I don’t really bother to think about it b/c my future is so unpredictable. I don’t even know which college am I going next semester. Right now I am just sooooo ready to go back to China (ticket is expersive though)…:(</p>
<p>what do u mean “which college am I going next semester”… i thought u are in Georgia State… r u transferring?? haha… harvard businesslaw is just my goal… only lao tian ye knows where ill end up lol</p>
<p>well… "My main reason is that I can live in luxury with US dollars in China. " haha not for long i predict… </p>
<p>us dollar is going down… like… very, very rapidly. us -> can used to be 1.6:1!!! while i was in canada, and now its like 1.2:1… and canadian tax is like 15%… so everything is so much more expensive in canada now. euro used to be worth like $.80… now its like $1.2something. the only reason why yuan hasnt went up because of the dollar is because china buys dollars. china tries to keep the exchange rate low, and its not entirely for trade. its because the economy is not mature enough to handle liquid currency, at least thats what my econ professor said. so basically the government is buying dollars to keep the demand for dollar high and therefore keep the equilibrium where it is. in reality it should be a lot lot lot higher, like 5:1 or something. </p>
<p>i guess people wanted to leave before because the standard of living here was higher, and there was more freedom, but nowdays in china, its weird how u can have almost no political freedom but a vast amount of economic freedom, and if one predicts that combination is not stable, at least currently it is happening in china… the standard of living has definitely risen in china, and as long as one has a good education and is willing to work, one wont be too poorly off… the population is just too big that in comparisson u’d be living a great life. </p>
<p>i know its cheesy, but for me, i really feel the diffrerence between the soil. this soil is foreign, i dont feel connected to it. i dont feel "happy’ here. i can be glad, and laughing, and comfortable, but still not “happy”… i can be sad, and crying, and angry, but still “happy” in china. here, even with friends, i feel apart from my surrounding… like i’d walk down a street 50 times and not know a tree was where and what it looked like unless someone specifically say wait for me underneath this certian tree and i’ll look for it… but in china i suck up everything around me like its the most interesting thing… i almost want to say i know every crack on the sidewalk, but then that would be wrong since new ones are formed while im here. its just… i dunno… i wander aimlessly here even when i have a goal, yet in china im not wandering, im home</p>