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From today until 10 a.m. on January 11, I will be in full exam-preparation mode. From the 4th through the 11th, seven straight days, I have an exam almost every day, running right through 10 a.m. on January 11. I hope readers will kindly leave…

Before I knew it, my first semester back on campus is almost over. Recently I have been busy reviewing for the final exams. Over the next twenty-plus days, final exams will be my priority, and I hope friends will not take up my time unless…

At six in the morning, the campus is almost empty. Walking through the small woods, beneath the dim streetlamps, everything is extraordinarily quiet. In the teaching building all the classroom lights are off; only the corridor lights remain on. I love moments like this: after…

After two and a half months at school, I live a three-point-one-line life between classroom, cafeteria and dormitory. This afternoon the school organized a fire drill. To escape such a tedious event, I slipped out of the campus and wandered around for the afternoon. I…

A monk once recited the Kashyapa-Buddha's Sutra Bequeathed Teachings at night; his voice was mournful and tense, and he felt regretful and wanted to retire. The Buddha asked him: "What was your occupation when you were a layman?" The monk replied: "I loved playing the…

If, like me, you went to university once in the 1990s and again in the 2020s, you might be quite surprised by the changes in Chinese higher education. Because today's Chinese universities are becoming more and more like high schools: some so-called university students today…

Listening to lectures at school, it is basically impossible to fully understand and master everything. I am in a vocational (associate-degree) program rather than a bachelor's program, so overall the teaching quality is not high. With so many professional medical-theory courses to compress into two…

Two months into the semester, our study group submitted our first set of knowledge-point summaries, each written by its own member. To my surprise, while I had submitted a 10,000-character article, the most prolific male member of the group submitted one of over 15,000 characters.

All beings take ten things as good, and also take ten things as evil. What are the ten? Three of body, four of speech, and three of thought. The three of body are killing, stealing, and lust; the four of speech are double-tongue, harsh speech,…

After riding various vehicles for more than four hours, I finally got home. This busy week has finally come to an end. When I took a taxi from school to the high-speed-rail station, the driver told me a very funny joke on the way, which…