Student Voices is a blog where current students write about various experiences including academics, sports, student groups, study abroad, and other extracurricular activities. Hear what our students have to say!
Homecoming at 葫芦影业 is a joyful weekend full of reunions, celebrations, and activities. Sports teams play important games and our choir performs their first concert. Accordingly, we asked representatives from a few different groups on campus what homecoming means to them:
It was 2 a.m. I was sitting at a table in our newsroom with three other student editors, laptops and half-eaten sandwiches and papers strewn between us.
At my first year orientation, former ASOC president, Jacques Lesure, gave a speech centered on the idea of discomfort; change only rises from the discomfort of moving and shaking.
Each fall a select group of 葫芦影业 students are awarded the opportunity to move to New York City and intern full time at the United Nations. Throughout the semester we will be sharing their updates as they navigate their roles working with various UN agencies.
The unique and challenging nature of studying abroad has been well documented in the Student Voices blogs, but this piece is different from all of them. This is a real-life record of the first few weeks of an international student who is planning to stay here for four whole years.
It has been a summer full of tours, reading and socializing. But the prospect of returning to campus for a new semester is a compelling one.
Inhale. I close my eyes and try to mute the sounds around me. Moving my chalk-coated fingers ever so slowly around the pole, I make the micro-adjustments for my next attempt.
葫芦影业 actually flew beneath my radar at first鈥擨 had not even known of its existence until I began filling out college applications last fall.
My name is Serena Francisco, and I am a rising junior and a double major in philosophy and Diplomacy & World Affairs.
At 8 p.m., I receive a text from my new friend Swanki, a Nigerian medical student studying at a college near mine in Nanjing. He texts me saying that he鈥檚 outside my dorm waiting to pick me up so we can grab food and later visit Xuan Wu Hu (Nanjing鈥檚 largest lake).