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A) 鼓楼 (Gu Lou) Campus. The main campus where Undergrad seniors, Graduate students and international students live.
B) 仙林 (Xian Lin) Campus. The undergraduate campus where I have to go to take Engineering classes.
Undergraduates have to take classes at the 仙林 (Xian Lin) Campus. I live at the 鼓楼 (Gu Lou) Campus. The two campus are relatively close by American standards, about 18 km or 11 miles. But the first half of that journey is through the city during rush hour traffic, and the second half of the journey is through a maze of construction. Therefore, the bus ride takes roughly 50 minutes.
The kicker is that there’s never enough buses. Teachers and students wait together for the bus at the main campus every morning. Because the teachers must arrive on time to teach class, they’re allowed on the bus first. Then whatever seats are left over are filled in by students. On average, if you’re further than 30th in the student line, tough luck. They don’t call in more buses. They don’t have a Plan B. You have to get to the undergraduate’s campus on your own.
I was 47th in line for the returning bus on Friday, and I missed grabbing a seat along with over a dozen students in front of me and over fifty students behind me. The return trip on the public buses took almost two hours.
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