My Real Age
Here’s a link to a “Real Age Calculator.” I entered my biological age as 26 years and then answered a series of questions it prompts. It calculated my real age to be 15.3 and my life expectancy to be 84.7. Not too bad.
Here’s a link to a “Real Age Calculator.” I entered my biological age as 26 years and then answered a series of questions it prompts. It calculated my real age to be 15.3 and my life expectancy to be 84.7. Not too bad.
We went to the Forbidden City today and got caught in the rain. What pictures I did take are up on Flickr. You can click here to see them or on the thumbnails to the right. There are also some more random pictures from around Beijing. We’re off to Shanghai for our last week in [...]
I wish I had something more to say about the pre-season rankings below other than that I miss going to fall games in the Big House. I used to live a few blocks away from the stadium in Ann Arbor and the few of us who woke up early enough would sell parking spots on [...]
A Chinese lawyer sued Mcdonald’s in China for not using enough Chinese on their receipts, thus violating his right to information. We recently studied the right to information in our Intro to the Chinese legal system. It is a new concept to Chinese law, and the person seeking the information bears the burden of proving [...]
Our last exam is over! and it’s time to enjoy China free of the burden of academic study. The Intro to Chinese IP exam was an open book copy-and-paste exercise that took most of the two hours. I don’t know how anyone could do poorly (knock on wood). After the exam, the Tsinghua students took [...]
Cart food typically costs less than 3 RMB, which is equal to 42 cents. I overheard the following conversation in class yesterday: You got some cart food, eh? Yeah, right by the subway. What’s in it? Pork, I think. You know you can get that for 1 RMB across the street. Faced with the decision [...]
We took a field trip to the Haidian District Court in Beijing, China a few days ago to view a criminal proceeding. Despite being labeled a field trip, it wasn’t that exciting. The court room was large and had an abundance of comfortable audience seating. The judge sat behind the bench and two men who [...]
Well, I’ve taken four one-hour exams in two days and they have been a blast. Not really. The first exam yesterday was Intro to Chinese Law, which would be better named Intro to Chaos. It asked us to briefly describe the Chinese legal system and then talk about a case that pertained to the Chinese [...]
The NYT has an interesting article about living in Shanghai, and how it compares with living in New York City. I’m traveling there next week, and am excited to see the difference between one of the most modern cities in China and the others that I have visited.
Summer CHIPSI classes ended today, which is a good thing. I wasn’t as pleased with them as I had hoped to be. The subjects had potential, and some came through. But there is / was definitely room for improvement. We have a day off before exams start on Wednesday and end on Friday. After that, [...]