Classes

These are my classes:

Sociology (Monday and Wednesday 12:00 to 13:20)

Microbiology (Tuesday and Thursday 9: 00 to 10:20)

Microbiology Lab (Monday and Thursday 1:30 to 2:20, Wednesday 14:00 to 16:50)

Mandarin I (Tuesday and Thursday 12:00 to 13:20)

Contemporary Chinese Politics (Thursday 15:00 to 17:50)

So far my classes seem to be going well. I have very few tests and only one final during finals period. All of my classes are interesting, and I am glad that I am able to learn some Chinese while in china. The contemporary Chinese Politics class is very interesting but I think it will be a lot of work; I am considering either dropping or auditing the course so I don’t have to spend too much time on it. One of the things we learned about was why the Chinese Communist Party survived a handover, while the USSR did not. It was basically because the people in China weren’t intelligent and organized enough to plan an entire country, while in Russia they were. Therefore when the power transitioned in the USSR no one outside the federal government knew how to run the country, where as in China people did know how. We also talked about how South Korea sent people to the United States to steal our technology and then invested all their money some a few of their own companies such as LG.

All of the classes are also nice in that most of the lecture material is online so if I miss lecture I can catch up.