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In the blink of an eye, three weeks of this semester have already passed. Since the second week, we have had practical-training and lab classes almost every day. Surgery and Diagnostics have each already had three practical sessions: in Surgery we learned disinfection, sterilization, standardized…

Summer vacation is over; tomorrow I return to school to register, and the day after classes officially begin. This vacation lasted 54 days, which counts as an extra-long break. I went home and spent nine days with my father—the longest stretch I have spent in…

I was born in the seventh lunar month of 1979 and will turn 47 in a month. My generation has lived through the greatest social transformation. When we were children, rural China still followed the farming patterns that had not changed for thousands of years.

This time I stayed in my hometown for a full nine days and eight nights. While home, I turned down every social engagement I possibly could. I did not even spend a single night at my wife's parents' home. Of course, I was at my…

As of today, I have been in my hometown for eight days, the longest I have stayed here in the last decade. Tomorrow evening I will say goodbye to my father and return to Beijing; this time I have kept him company for a full…

Counting today, I have been in my hometown for five days, the longest stay I have had here during summer vacations in recent years. In the past, I always rushed back and rushed away again for work reasons. This time I only want to keep…

These past few days I have been carrying out a technical overhaul of my website. Running for 11 years, the site has placed too heavy a load on the server, causing frequent system crashes, so I have had to take measures to improve its code.

When I woke up this morning, I rode my bicycle to the small vegetable garden at the foot of Fragrant Hills and pulled weeds by hand. On top of the pile I pulled out the day before yesterday, today I removed nearly two more baskets…

On July 6, school let out for the summer. After returning home and resting for a week, my spirits and strength recovered to their best state. These past few days I have spent most of my time reading and writing at the National Library, and…

After the summer vacation began, I rested at home for a full five days, and rested more than enough. These five days were, for me, a rare spell of laziness; I did not even want to open a book. I went to the vegetable plot…