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...Cappella set, the beginning of a night out at MIT was filled with upbeat promise and anticipation. Having only been there briefly during the fall of my freshman year, I was ready to give the home of the disco dance floor another shot. The allure of science, math, and physics partying called...
...group made up of Harvard students on financial aid from New York or Maine. I was the youngest person in the room by far, my peer scholarship recipients either out of town or otherwise busy, and I felt out of place. I talked to an I-banker about math courses. I scanned the room...
...national statistics office, up from 7.8% a year earlier. Among young people specifically, the situation is even worse: 27.8% of 15-to-24-year-olds are now out of work. "We think, Why every day are we going to university and studying?" says Phaidon Kyriakou, a 19-year-old math and physics student who was flying kites with friends on Monday. "Nobody has any hope. There's no real opportunity here." He and his friends fear they'll have to leave Greece to find decent jobs...
...meaning that if you dropped one point of the Gaokao, you would drop back as many places in the rankings as the number of people you could fit on a soccer field. Imagine the SATs being 10 times as hard as they are now (especially the math part), having only one chance to take the SATs every year, and having your scores completely determine which college you were admitted to. You’d probably cut your daily two-hour dose of hoops and instead spend the time on math problems...
Furthermore, while I personally chose to study abroad because of the wide range of opportunities that American education offered, I do believe that the Chinese system still has many advantages. Chinese students excel at math and science because they do a lot of practice problems and become good at it. Socially, because everyone takes the same classes, students are in one classroom with the same fifty classmates for most of high school. Classmates bond with one another in this close environment and establish life-long friendships. In comparison, American students can meet more people in their different classes...