It's stressful, just as any other country in the world -- however, I heard stories of it being extremely elitist. And the best part? You will have the most beautiful hand writing.
yea. i heard the schools are pretty strict compare to western countries. i even heard the teachers can hit you
I went to HK for a 10 week summer semester do to HK Legal Law and will be going there in 2008. It is more strict but not much more so. The people I met were really friendly, and its a great place to go. Where in China are you thinking of going to? University wise, I dont think there is any real difference in strictness. Im originally from stockholm
my friend came to usa 2 years ago and she came from beijing she is probably by far the most deligent student i have ever seen and she said it is so free in usa and she said she never studied in usa and i assumed that she studied so hard in china
Is not that difficult. I was studying in Hong Kong abt 8 years ago. Just that they jump the topic very quickly. You have to be smart and ask questions if you dont understand what the teacher are talking about straight away.
i'm guessing everything will be in Mandarin? If so, I guess i'll be failing every exams and every class, unfortunately.
i wanted to do exchange with hku my junior year in college. i went there once and saw lots of kids hanging out, is high school life really different from college life there?
My dad says that studying in HK is a lot more competitive in America >.< so... I'm guessing that studying in China/HK/Taiwan is going to be more fast-paced and tougher than U.S...
Really... it was pretty fun when I was studying in HK 8 years ago. Everyone is nice to me and everything. The only thing is that my result arent that good in some subjects.
i just went to hk and south china this January for study abroad. i stayed in City University of Hong Kong and three other universities in South China(Guangdong, Zhongsan and Wuyi). I met a lot of students who are studying in those universities. From all the anecdotes, I gather that the student life is hard in terms of housing (like no TVs no computers no Internet access) and pretty ok in terms of classes. Although they take a lot of classes (like 8 per semester) they are not loaded because each class meets only an hour a week. So students do not ususally study until the final week of the semester. They are not that serious about course work because everything just flies by quickly. Housing conditions are very difficult for the students. No hot water in the winter, not enough washing machines...etc. And those three universities in China are considered one of the best in the nation. The City University of Hong Kong is different. Facilities are great, perhaps better than the one in the States. So the schools in mainland China still need to improve in a lot of areas and the ones in HK are great. Courseworks in both places are about the same. I hope it helps.
you can always find an apartment on your own instead of living in the dorm. i agree the dorm life is difficult
Nice. I have a friend going to China on an exchange program thing. Now I can tell her the hellish conditions she is going to get herself into. There's that little classes? Last time I was in China (2006 summer), the tour guide told us, that for the performers (ranged 17-22 in age) would have to do homework and classes for about 6 hours per day, ON TOP of having to train and do their performance routines and stuff. From what I hear though, for Chinese universities, they have higher emphasis on memorizing facts instead of applying it. For me at least, talking to older people. Canadians, will only use about 40% of all the crap they learn in post secondary, after they graduate. These are "core" (required) courses too! I swear they're just padding all the stuff so that the universities get more money. China was kinda fun. But Hong Kong more. I like Cantonese more than Mandarin. Traditional > Simplified. But that's me. However, Cantonese is padded with a LOT of slang. While Mandarin slang is not as prevalent. Personally, I believe China is more dangerous than Hong Kong. The standard of living just isn't there. But you kinda can't blame them. There's just too much population in China. Everything is spread too thin.
