The Continuing Missing Cups
Metal cups have been provided free of charge to the entirety of the school population since 2019, but ever since its inception, they have been disappearing at an exponential rate.
Michelle Li
Michelle Li
Michelle Li is a contributor to On Magnolia Square.
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NYU Shanghai Professors Transition Into Remote Teaching
The recent lockdowns in Shanghai have necessitated a transition to remote learning, which has prompted NYU Shanghai professors to reexamine their coursework and teaching.
NYU Shanghai’s Incubation Period
2019-nCoV has been a hot topic as of late. This virus has left an indelible blemish on the 2020 spring semester, relegating students to different sites on the global campus, forcing the hasty creation of online courses, and pushing back the schedule altogether. In the days leading up to February, the question weighing on everyone’s minds was unequivocal: what next?
Goldenrod Exhibit Review
After all, it wouldn’t do to have a gallery space in the first place if it isn’t going to be used. The formal exhibition, and its intended themes, are all an outward representation of the school itself: our avid patronage of the arts and the environmentalist values we endorse.
NYUSH's Double Eleven
This uniquely Chinese phenomenon, known as Double Eleven, happens annually on the innocuously-named Single’s Day. Despite its humble origins as an impromptu holiday created to celebrate bachelordom, Single’s Day has now blossomed into a (according to a recent estimate) 268.4-billion-yuan cash cow.
Open Classrooms
It is not an uncommon sight, especially around this time of year: depleted pens strewn undiscarded, loose papers askew on tables, comatose laptops left half-open, abandoned bookbags defending scarce seat spaces, the crack of dawn breaking on a jam-packed library, and (of course) the ubiquitous legion of napping student