Grandpa’s Birthday
今天是爷爷的生日。爷爷的生日是九月初七。[…]
A New Taste of Diversity
Right before coming to Cambridge, I wondered if I needed to attend some kind of orientation for new international students. I in fact emailed the university international students’ office to ask about this, and the answer was no, as such events did not receive particularly positive feedback from students in the past years. I was […]
A Piece of Art Fallen on Earth
Beautiful landscapes are like a piece of art that’s fallen on earth. Among them there’s this place called Cambridge. Like a wooden sculpture carved straight out of a tree trunk, it’s exquisite and ancient, natural and full of life. I’ve lived at different places. From the metropolitan Shanghai, to the rolling hills painted by pads […]
Freshers’ Week
Here they call first-year students “freshers,” and we just finished our freshers’ week. It’s quite like the orientation we did for undergrad, but I enjoyed it more this time. There are fewer compulsory talks on the basics of how to live and study in a university — well, we are postgraduates now — and more […]