University Life, Chinese Style

I seriously dont get the bashing this website brings. I mean what university was it exactly and this one is probably in the low end. (I mean why would you apply for this university if there are better ones?)

It's called an organized mess. We're proud of it *w*

lol, looks like my frat house after a crazy party...

because low end doesn't always mean low brow, although in china....

Well I sure as hell couldn't live like that. I let stuff go for a little while but then it starts to annoy me and I have to clean.

But I got a buddy who basically lived in a garbage dump during highschool. I didn't go in his room for over a year before he moved, I'd just come pick him up and we'd leave.

But when I helped him move outa his old place I was amazed by what I saw. His entire room was filled with trash and random stuff, it smelled like rotten garbage and he just had a small path from his door to the chair in front of his computer that he slept in. I asked him how he could live like that and he basically said that he really didn't think about it, so it didn't really bother him.

Psychologically, people are more likely to do something "bad" when others are doing it as well. Chances are, only a small group of students were slobs in the beginning. But when more people felt like they had an excuse to litter ("Classes are too tough! I don't have time to clean" or "Everybody else is doing it!") and when faculty simply do not do anything to control the littering, the shit hits the fan.

However, I bet you anyone, when given these circumstances, would do the same thing. It's not simply because they're Chinese.

i doubt those are on-campus dorms any self-respecting university would take care of the "problem" unless it's one of those diploma factories...

Anon, you say that anyone would do the same thing? I, for one, guarantee that I would never live in a mess like that or litter for no reason other than those you listed.

If anyone would do the same thing how come it doesn't seem to be happening anywhere else?

TBH my room was that messy back in my university days.

I hated having girls over since that required few hours of cleaning beforehand. But I eventually came to my senses and realized that I don't have to work so hard to impress my imaginary girlfriends.

I don't know how anybody can study, much rather live under those conditions. boy oh boy

Living in a room like that is simply a new adventure every day. After a while, you remember what junk is covering the other junk you may need, and while looking for things you discover things you may have lost or may have grown under the filth! So many surprises!

I wonder how can they find the right notebooks for the lesson. They probably just pick them out on random.

If you want to understand the Chinese/Japanese bashing look up Japan's occupation of China before world war 2 in your history book.

OMG! That's a messy, yet a terrible university I've ever seen in my life.

I wish they'd list the name of the location of this stuff. Then we can have a laugh as we look at related information.

so all the shit was just a result of Chinese students letting their hair down?

IT WILL PASS. - akagi

Not "letting their hair down" exactly. Chinese education system don't leave much time for students who have been studying under high pressure to do something they want; most of the students have live this way for nearly 20 years, and they can finally change their lifestyle when graduate, how can they stay cool? It feels like a prisoner who has just been set free.

You never experienced China's college entrance examination, you never know what they did to enter the university. And when they are going to graduate, they just want to give their vent out。

"(Probably) "
So you are just talking out of your ass huh?

a hypothesis.

Don't talk as if they are the only ones. I know plenty of Americans that live in places just as trashy and dirty.

wut?

High quality education - i.e. education that nurtures creativity - in the US is still currently superior to the education received by most native Chinese students, but high quality education is usually only provided to gifted students or those in private education. From what I know this is the case in other countries like the UK. Undeniably Chinese students will have more opportunities if they were to go overseas, but there really is a great deal of investment in education in China, especially in science and maths.

In fact my initial point was actually meant to be the fact that the quality of education in China is and has been getting better however QOE in numerous advanced economies are only getting worse - terrible in fact. Looking at drop-out rates and etc makes me worried, and drop-outs and etc aren't really at fault as well, they are just educated 'wrong'.

this is why I included the p.s.

your mistake is that you assume that creativity is only found in the art and etc.

mathematics for example is no different from art really; what mathematicians essentially do is use a symbolic language to describe an idea of something; it is no different from describing it in words, painting a picture or whatever.

Nevertheless creativity is more along the lines of generating ideas, which is required in all walks of life to solve the many problems we encounter.

cant be bothered to explain better, gota catch up on my manga.

*sarcasm
no one tells them to pick up after themselves because they don't want a judo chop to the back of their neck.