On The Sophomore Class I would describe my relationship as “growing by the minute,” honestly. There’s some people that I get the feeling that they don’t want to be friends with me, but there’s so many that accept us and allow us to feel like we’re at home here, and we’re all going through the same experience. So, it’s just a great feeling to know that there’s other people like us doing the same thing and giving us advice. - Branden Taylor On Adjusting to an International School “[Going to an international school] is quite good and I experienced a lot of culture fusion, like with English and Chinese language.” “[I experienced this fusion with] the mode of the education, or the food, and also the language. And the way that people greet others.” “It was quite challenging at the very beginning but after two months I got used to it here.” - Jason Wang On Academics at NYU Shanghai I really like anything to do with the humanities, social sciences, [but I’m] not the biggest fan of anything to do with mathematics or science at all. But then, I do know that there is some disagreement with how GPS is being set out and everything but I really enjoy it. That’s just a personal perspective…. But I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong, I don’t mind being part of the testing classes for future years. - Michelle Huang On GPS I think I would change the lecture style. What we do in recitation is the same thing Prof. Lehman does in lecture so there should be a way to combine the two, or to make it more interactive because just hearing one person talk is kind of tedious and boring. - Tatiana Tapasco Advice for the Class of 2019 For adjusting to NYU Shanghai, I would like to say you need to understand the importance of constructive confrontation. Especially for Chinese students, they find it difficult to express their thoughts directly, but you need to voice yourself, you need to tell them how exactly you feel. In that way, people from different cultures will be better at understanding each other and there will be less misunderstanding and they will feel easier to get along with each other. - Murphy Li This article was written by our editorial staff . Send an email to [email protected] to get in touch. Photo Credit: Rhine Lu