Campus Life

Top 5 mistakes of Resume writing

A solid resume is a necessary stepping-stone to starting your career, and all it takes is some good old-fashioned self-promotion, confidence and style to raise an eyebrow or two in HR. But if you're a new graduate with a five-page CV and are using your parents as references, your resume most likely needs a makeover, and chances are it suffers from one of these five common resume writing faux-pa...

The millionare student in China

Calling Ma Wenya for an interview Thursday caught him in the middle of what does best: closing a deal. Unlike other seniors busy scrambling for jobs, Ma, a senior majoring in media market research and analysis at Beijing-based Communication University of China (CUC) has lived his last year of college on the fast track to success, earning himself about 5 million yuan ($ 732,500)by inves...

University Night: A revival of college rock

College rock is dead in the US. In many university towns, all that remains is a jaded, worn-out corpse on display in its glass mausoleum, otherwise known as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It had a good run. But here in the Chinese capital, university students have pulled a rock resurrection. Beijing's college scene is alive and wailing, resisting the mando-pop monopoly en force, and Haidian's ...

What's wrong with Chinese universities

Two months after an east China university banned public kissing and canoodling on campus, the petting police are still on patrol -- despite a heated debate online and on-campus that shows no sign of abating. About 100 student guards wearing red armbands are employed by the Nanjing Forestry University authorities to cool down public displays of affection among students on the campus in ...

Successful 3500-Meter Deep-sea Work Done by Remotely Operated “Sea-Dragon”

The Underwater Engineering Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University which has once undertaken many major underwater projects recently has news of success again. On October 23, 2009, the “Sea Dragon” ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) successfully dived into 2770-meter depth of mid-ocean ridge in the eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean, found the hydrothermal vent and completed the task of f...

Han Han：Voice of the Post-80s Generation

When Han Han flipped the bird at judges after receiving a penalty during the China Touring Car Championship in June, many wondered if he'd taken his penchant for controversy too far. The 27-year-old professional racecar driver later posted on his blog, lambasting the Federation of Automobile Sports as "unprofessional" in rule enforcement and criticizing it for failing to impose penalt...

Students line up to get a study room

How far will some students go to get a place to study for exams? Late last month, the library at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) addressed that question by issuing a new seating policy; students now must line up at the library around 5:00 am every Monday morning to get a number-card assigning them a study room. The new measure was adopted in reaction to students' mono...

Feeling Christianity on campus

Every Sunday, Haidian District Christian Church fills with both the devout and curious from the area's many surrounding universities. These campus Christians, many holding graduate degrees, are the first generation of Chinese intellectuals in many decades to openly subscribe to a religion. Earlier this year, the Christianity Research Team (CRT) set up by Renmin University of China (RUC), after...

seventh China-Russia college students' arts festival opens

The seventh China-Russia college students' arts festival opened here Thursday as 2,000 students from both sides attended the opening gala in Beijing Foreign Studies University. During the festival, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, a delegation of 53 Russian students will be invited to visit universities and cultural attractions in four Chinese cities of Beijing, Daqing, Weihai and Qiqiha...

A letter from a foreign student in Beijing

Dear Students, Please be advised …… it has happened that Western looking students have been addressed by Chinese people, who pose as students, teachers or just people who want to speak English with you. Especially at scenic spots or places in downtown with many foreigners. Often those who approach you are sweet, pretty young ladies, who are very insistent, and hard to refuse.They ask students ...