1, why choose GDUFS?
Before entering this university, the only thing I learned about GDUFS was that its foreign language education, esp. English knowledge, was one of the most competitive nationwide, ranked first in Guangdong province, second only to BSFU and SHISU nationwide. While Sun Yat-sen University remained the top of the heap and its position being best university unchallenged in Guangdong, GDUFS was said to hold the rank of NO.3 or No. 4, as competitive as Jinan University of 100 years old.
Yet under the impression that English education in GDUFS was unmatched in Guangdong and global background presented itself that English played a more important role, students, including me, believed they could not only acquire profound knowledge in their major, but also have good mastery of English, giving them a leg up at future job hunting.
At the thought of this bright prospect, we felt relieved at our choice of university. Combined with my experience through the whole job hunting process, this, indeed, turned out to be so beneficial a determining factor that helped win the competition at best, or, at worst, a bright spot that earned one more shot even at the time you failed to impress the interviewee. Through what I observed, this served as a talking point for GDUFS students in interviews.
In this sense, it seemed to prove our original choice was infallible.
But, is it? And is it for the majority of students, if not all?
2, four years later
Four years later and now, I thought I could be qualified to talk a lot about this school.
Tonight, squeezing time to sit down with a peaceful heart and racking my brain to search for those fragrant memories of university life, I didn’t feel I had much interest in this school, which had been so disappointing from day one. It seemed that the school did many things meaningless, much to the discontent of us. Sometimes it just failed to please us with everything it did.
The recent incident about air-conditioning fees and graduation procedures for graduates pissed off and turned away us students. With little reflection, we could easily figure out the insidious purpose behind a series of provocative actions. When reality turned darker and more nebulous, the desire for truth got a lot more intense. The school and its management team proved to be breaching the way it purported to be, and has embarked on a different purpose unknown.
That incident about air-conditioning might not be enough to smooth our feathers. It was a serious of disappointing incidents that let us down. The students built up a lot of anger and discontent and the air-conditioning event came at a very opportune time for students, especially graduates, to voice their discontent and give vent to their long-suppressed emotion.
3, whose fault?
Even though the school took action and tried to turn the situation around when the whole school were buzzing with anger with some expressing their fury on the message board of Focus of Today-an important and influential portal of program designed to expose injustice against the interest of the general public and standing up for them. Focus of Today, together with many other programs of this sort, has taken root in the hearts of Cantonese. Later on, Guangzhou’s media came to interview and investigate. The school, at last, published another plan of charging air-conditioning fees.
Maybe what the school did actually had little positive results. Students’ anger was not dispersed and the campus was still reverberated with negative comments. We were tremendously piqued. And we were so disappointed that we didn’t even think we have a liking for the school. So many students said they wouldn’t miss the school even years after graduation. Some said they felt so disappointed that they would give advice to the high school graduates not to choose to study in GDUFS when it was time for them to select future school and majors. They made a point of no failure on giving advice to the freshman-to-be. Maybe the disappointed students would cross the line when they did this. But, this did reflect their discontent and disappointment.
Whose fault was it when we came to this predicament?
Before entering this university, the only thing I learned about GDUFS was that its foreign language education, esp. English knowledge, was one of the most competitive nationwide, ranked first in Guangdong province, second only to BSFU and SHISU nationwide. While Sun Yat-sen University remained the top of the heap and its position being best university unchallenged in Guangdong, GDUFS was said to hold the rank of NO.3 or No. 4, as competitive as Jinan University of 100 years old.
Yet under the impression that English education in GDUFS was unmatched in Guangdong and global background presented itself that English played a more important role, students, including me, believed they could not only acquire profound knowledge in their major, but also have good mastery of English, giving them a leg up at future job hunting.
At the thought of this bright prospect, we felt relieved at our choice of university. Combined with my experience through the whole job hunting process, this, indeed, turned out to be so beneficial a determining factor that helped win the competition at best, or, at worst, a bright spot that earned one more shot even at the time you failed to impress the interviewee. Through what I observed, this served as a talking point for GDUFS students in interviews.
In this sense, it seemed to prove our original choice was infallible.
But, is it? And is it for the majority of students, if not all?
2, four years later
Four years later and now, I thought I could be qualified to talk a lot about this school.
Tonight, squeezing time to sit down with a peaceful heart and racking my brain to search for those fragrant memories of university life, I didn’t feel I had much interest in this school, which had been so disappointing from day one. It seemed that the school did many things meaningless, much to the discontent of us. Sometimes it just failed to please us with everything it did.
The recent incident about air-conditioning fees and graduation procedures for graduates pissed off and turned away us students. With little reflection, we could easily figure out the insidious purpose behind a series of provocative actions. When reality turned darker and more nebulous, the desire for truth got a lot more intense. The school and its management team proved to be breaching the way it purported to be, and has embarked on a different purpose unknown.
That incident about air-conditioning might not be enough to smooth our feathers. It was a serious of disappointing incidents that let us down. The students built up a lot of anger and discontent and the air-conditioning event came at a very opportune time for students, especially graduates, to voice their discontent and give vent to their long-suppressed emotion.
3, whose fault?
Even though the school took action and tried to turn the situation around when the whole school were buzzing with anger with some expressing their fury on the message board of Focus of Today-an important and influential portal of program designed to expose injustice against the interest of the general public and standing up for them. Focus of Today, together with many other programs of this sort, has taken root in the hearts of Cantonese. Later on, Guangzhou’s media came to interview and investigate. The school, at last, published another plan of charging air-conditioning fees.
Maybe what the school did actually had little positive results. Students’ anger was not dispersed and the campus was still reverberated with negative comments. We were tremendously piqued. And we were so disappointed that we didn’t even think we have a liking for the school. So many students said they wouldn’t miss the school even years after graduation. Some said they felt so disappointed that they would give advice to the high school graduates not to choose to study in GDUFS when it was time for them to select future school and majors. They made a point of no failure on giving advice to the freshman-to-be. Maybe the disappointed students would cross the line when they did this. But, this did reflect their discontent and disappointment.
Whose fault was it when we came to this predicament?
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