Campus Life ⁽³⁸⁾

A couple of days ago a friend sent me a rather interesting article. It gathered together several "old-timers" who, in middle age, retook the college entrance exam to study TCM at university, profiling each of them. The article was richly illustrated with photos of these…

I have been back in classes for a week now, and I have pretty much met this year's professional-course teachers. Every evening, backpack on, I take an after-dinner walk on the school sports field. The early-autumn evening breeze feels especially cool, and the field is…

After a summer at home, I returned to school around seven in the evening on August 30. I picked up new books during evening self-study, and on August 31 we officially began classes. After an absence of more than fifty days, everything on the campus…

It must have been because of the heat. This Monday, during the second class, a girl in our class suddenly took ill: she had difficulty breathing, her hands and feet convulsed, she could not move, and her limbs turned ice-cold. The teacher noticed, stopped the…

Yesterday evening, during a practical training class in rehabilitation medicine, I suddenly received a message from the teacher at our university's innovation laboratory. He told me that the pharmacological experiment I had applied to conduct at the university could now go ahead, and asked me…

Every Sunday afternoon around two o'clock, I set off from Beijing and take the train back to school, arriving at the classroom before Sunday evening self-study to begin a new week of study. During Sunday evening self-study I review what I learned the previous week…

In the blink of an eye, a third of this semester has already passed. Time really flies; in just over two months, summer vacation will begin again. This semester's study and life at school have been a joy, body and mind. From Monday to Friday,…

The new semester has been under way for three days. I arrived at school on the evening of the 13th day of the first lunar month, and it was snowing heavily when I came. After it snowed all that night, when I got up the…

The winter vacation is over, and a new semester is about to begin. This semester will officially start on March 1 and end on July 3. During this period, national statutory holidays (the Qingming Festival, Labor Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and weekends) will be observed…

Today, our exam week for this semester finally came to an end. After sitting the last professional exam this morning, I shouldered my bag and took the high-speed rail back to Beijing. Ahead lies a winter break of fifty days. I ate lunch at home,…