First of all, wow! Did brackets get torn up the first weekend! As I say that, Butler just beat Syracuse to add to the madness. A sincere "thank you" as well to Greivis Vasquez, Landon Milbourne, and Eric Hayes for some great memories - especially beating UNC and Duke at home.
My student visa is halfway to its expiration date now, so I'm checking up on the goals I set earlier this semester:
(All the way back from my first post)
1. Have a great time and soak everything in this semester.
2. Be more open-minded.
3. Don't be so serious all the time, I have the rest of my life to be serious.
4. Come back to UMD better than ever.
I can check off #1 and 2 for sure, as Hong Kong is surely growing on me. I know a lot of other exchange students have toured all over Asia during long weekends and breaks, but I am perfectly happy looking around right here. As far as I can tell, my time here is way too short to fully explore HK - I'm already considering coming back here after I'm done with undergrad. "Open-minded" for me has been making an effort to get to know the native students and sharing my own story with them, and I've been rewarded greatly for it. This has meant I've spent less time with other exchange students, but hey, I can talk to American kids when I get home. I haven't accomplished #3, guess I really can't change myself that way. And #4 is a work in progress, but things are looking good :)
I'm passing all of my classes: 86 on math midterm and 80 on programming, with the second midterms in each coming up. I've already taken 2 midterms in material science, but students don't get their midterms back in Engineering courses (which I don't agree with at all). Chinese foreign policy looks to be the toughest, with a debate, paper, and final all coming up shortly after Easter break.
Either way, life is good... a satisfactory Midterm Report!
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