This Monday was uneventful. We had a healthy group for lunch, nice (55⁰F) weather (albeit overcast), and everything ran on time. The most notable thing about today was that we have a different bus as our shuttle this week.
Tomorrow, our day starts with waking up to make the 07:45 bus, but unless you’re in MGT 494, OPS 301, or DSC 211, your scheduled day ends with returning to the apartments at 14:30. Wednesday, the bus leaves for Shanghai at 07:00, and we won’t be returning until 19:00, having had both lunch and dinner in Shanghai. Ironically, we won’t actually take a proper tour of Shanghai until the last part of the semester. By then we will have visited some part of the city about five other times.
Now, Economics is every day Monday through Wednesday, from 13:00 to 14:00. The econ students grumble about this. However, when Minister-Counselor Fritz came to speak last Wednesday, They had a two-hour class on the proceeding day to make up for it. They grumbled about this for most of the weekend and Monday. This week we’re all missing both Tuesday and Wednesday, which means another cancelled thermo class for me, but I’m not complaining; it was already on the schedule anyway, which means the professor won’t have any time to make up. But, the econ students had a three-hour class today so as not to lose any time. They started complaining about it on Friday and continued to do so I’m sure until after they were halfway home (they opted to walk instead of waiting the twenty minutes for the bus). I was highly amused, because I was imagining what my dad’s response to their lamentations would be. He is a college professor who teaches economics, and has taught courses scheduled as four hours from 18:00 to 22:00 one day a week. After we returned, we all studied for a while, went individually and in small groups to dinner, and the Americans helped a few of the Chinese students to obtain business casual outfits for tomorrow and Wednesday. Afterward, several of us sat around socializing and studying until it was time to go to bed.
Tomorrow, our day starts with waking up to make the 07:45 bus, but unless you’re in MGT 494, OPS 301, or DSC 211, your scheduled day ends with returning to the apartments at 14:30. Wednesday, the bus leaves for Shanghai at 07:00, and we won’t be returning until 19:00, having had both lunch and dinner in Shanghai. Ironically, we won’t actually take a proper tour of Shanghai until the last part of the semester. By then we will have visited some part of the city about five other times.
Now, Economics is every day Monday through Wednesday, from 13:00 to 14:00. The econ students grumble about this. However, when Minister-Counselor Fritz came to speak last Wednesday, They had a two-hour class on the proceeding day to make up for it. They grumbled about this for most of the weekend and Monday. This week we’re all missing both Tuesday and Wednesday, which means another cancelled thermo class for me, but I’m not complaining; it was already on the schedule anyway, which means the professor won’t have any time to make up. But, the econ students had a three-hour class today so as not to lose any time. They started complaining about it on Friday and continued to do so I’m sure until after they were halfway home (they opted to walk instead of waiting the twenty minutes for the bus). I was highly amused, because I was imagining what my dad’s response to their lamentations would be. He is a college professor who teaches economics, and has taught courses scheduled as four hours from 18:00 to 22:00 one day a week. After we returned, we all studied for a while, went individually and in small groups to dinner, and the Americans helped a few of the Chinese students to obtain business casual outfits for tomorrow and Wednesday. Afterward, several of us sat around socializing and studying until it was time to go to bed.