'Working in the States is a dream come true, regardless of the odds that I might not get a working permit to start my career after graduation, I decided to do everything I can to make it happen.'
Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all implicitly understand the clout involved with a big-name higher-education institution's degree.
“Don’t get me wrong: The classes are pretty fun, and she explains concepts well. But the exams are the priority, y’know?”
With the students of Duke and Duke Kunshan scattered the world over, there has also arisen the opportunity to find commonalities in unsuspecting places—from waking up at ungodly hours for Zoom discussion groups to gripes about the inconveniences of online assignments, shared experiences do help in creating an almost communal resilience against letting these circumstances affect us.
Speaking with someone in your native tongue asserts a familiarity between speakers that few other cultural commonalities can so readily and directly establish.
