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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
I landed in Shanghai and my little nokia buzzed with an automated sms from China Mobile, something along the lines of “We welcome you very much in China. There is happy for your stay.” I couldn’t believe I was receiving this from a multi-billion dollar company only two years before the Beijing olympics, so I [...]
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Here’s something I think the europeans got right: Taking only a few courses in a semester makes for a better education than taking 5. This is because you actually get time to reflect on what you’ve studied, or even better, surprise yourself when your learning pops up unexpectedly and makes sense of your extracurricular life. [...]
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Two things I’ve learned over the last few months:
1) GPA doesn’t really matter. Sure it’s nice to have a high GPA, but potential co-workers and employers are looking for evidence of ability, not evidence of the potential for ability. Not to mention I get the sense that if your GPA is *too* high it actually [...]
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