It's the end of the first week here in Tsinghua and it's been a fairly interesting week. Lots of new people, the typical foreign student exchanges phone numbers within 5 minutes or so of meeting each other. Not just because for networking purposes, but I think it's because we share a common purpose of being here and in a way, to form a support group.
I don't think cliques per se have been formed, although at this moment, I haven't seen many local chinese students participating in our dinners/drinks. Possibly because we don't know many of them, and that they also would have other friends and families. For us, we're the only ones that we know here - so perhaps stronger bonds form.
Just about everybody seems pretty nice, there don't seem to be any jerk/bitch personas. It'll be interesting to work with them. At the moment, I'm looking forward to meeting my group mates - especially the local chinese. Truth be told, I don't think the locals need us as much as we need them, which might explain why they rarely interact with us.
Comparatively to our western counterpart schools, pre-program pedigree doesn't seem to feature highly with the students. We don't have ex-McK/GS people who graduated from H/Y/P attending us. But instead, there are several themes to the students that attend:
1. Foreign Chinese that intend to do business in China.
2. Family businesses.
3. Entrepreneurship experience of sorts.
The caucasians that attend tend to have had some form of China experience prior to this, and are looking to stay in China after this or be involved in some role that involve China.
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Mikk & Envias - Bittersweet Symphony
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