And so began the Orientation Week. A bit disorganized and messy, but I guess because the committee is made of students of the Class of 2011 - they would be busy and this would be the first time that many of them are doing it. But all in all, they've done a pretty decent job, although certain things like a 6 hour scavanger hunt were less than ideal.
I have to admit that all in all, it's been a pretty interesting week. However, I realize that most international students don't realize the value that the local students place on being able to attend Tsinghua.
For many locals, being able to attend Tsinghua is something that they may have dreamt of for a logn time - achieving is could be the culmination of a lot of hardwork and a bit of luck. For the internationals, we don't realize how much Tsinghua can/may help us as we stay in China. I think as the two years progress, hopefully, we'll be able to realize the value of the Tsinghua name - for the time being, we might still prefer the Harvard name.
China has 30 million students and has 8 million new students per year, of that, Tsinghua has approximately 27,000 students (14k undergrad, 13k post grad).... so, for being the elite university... Tsinghua is pretty elite in that sense.
Let's hope, that the Tsinghua name will really open the doors we hope to open...
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