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Nanjing Students Line Up In Winter To Study In Library

by on Monday, January 18, 2010 97 comments

From Mop:

I am also [a student] of Nanjing Normal University…

Seeing this journal entry on Xiaonei, I had deep feelings…

Although the temperatures during the winters in the south are not as low as in the north…those who have been to Nanjing before can definitely understand that kind of wet cold…so this kind of winter is very uncomfortable…and I pretty much get chilblains every year…. Since it is the end of the semester and time for reviews…the air conditioned [heated] library has become everyone’s first choice…I too have studied by myself in the self-study classrooms here…my feet so cold…that eventually I simply could no longer absorb what I was reading….

Okay…I will begin posting the pictures…

It is many degrees below zero! If you don’t believe me, look at the solid things in the H2O in the fountain. According to people there, the first person in line probably lined up at 5:30 [am], while the library opens at 7:30! The time to the middle [of the line] is 120 minutes! Students note that this is winter, Nanjing’s winter, not Nanning’s winter! 5:30 to 7:30 is what significance?

The line is beginning to move, but the students in the back are still at such a distant place.

In the past, the line was like this.

Now it is like this (Let us look at the below satellite image, this is so professional!)

Moreover, the weather conditions at the time were: Rain and snow, level 3-4 winds.

Respect! Persevering even in the wind and rain!

The big tunnel is faintly visible!

What kind of feelings will the future students lining up feel when they see the spaciousness below the library?

Comments from Mop:

gwxisme:

So studious. When I was in university, I never once woke up before 7am…
There are plenty of places to study. Dorm rooms are okay too, put on some earphones, close the curtains…

上官正斌:

Ugh, can those students in the back of the line be so stupid as to think they will be able to get in?

rbszyz111:

There are tests/exams during these few days so of course there will be a lot of people studying. Even the dissection rooms at our medical school have people in them studying, nevermind the library. The library’s door has even been ruined…

生化工冰:

Nanjing University of Technology students come to ding your post. The earliest I have woken up is 5:30 to go reserve seats at 6:00. Very miserable.

孤独の流云:

Come to Beijing.
The students here at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications all get up at midnight on Sunday to reserve seats at the library,
so what is 2 hours,
when we are standing outside half the night also during winter.

歌者舞者:

The sense of pride/accomplishment for those who line up is not from seeing fewer and fewer people in front of them but having more and more people behind them.

妖精的旋律001:

University students are not like what some people say, devoid of any redeeming qualities, because actually studying well is still very difficult!!!

sphinxcn:

Is this necessary?
If you don’t go to the library, are there no other places for studying???
And the time spent lining up should be wasted just like this???

匿名人士903028:

Everyone, don’t be baffled/impressed by superficial appearances. Normally not studying, specially cramming at the end of the semester, fighting for seats, reserving seats, making it so that the students who really want to study don’t even have a place to put their butts!!! Lou zhu, do you dare deny it??? If you really want to study, isn’t it the same anywhere, cold? This is an excuse!

有文化的流氓M:

Good thing brother has already escaped…I am in my fourth year…heh heh.
Last winter I went to line up, but that was after drinking a big gulp of Erguotou [Chinese baijiu liquor] before rushing out…

Study partners. chinaSMACK personals.

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  1. Sophie
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9:00 pm

    I taught English at Nan Shi Da for 6 months in 2004-5, and queues were long then (although not this big). As an English student at the time, I was amazed. Nothing like this would ever happen where I come from. I cannot believe how hard-working Chinese young people are.

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  2. PUSAN PLAYA
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    This is what happens when the state retains a monopoly on higher education, China no longer has breadlines but you’ve still got educationlines.

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  3. Chinglish
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9:47 pm

    學校為什麼要組織學生到圖書館學習啊？我去過南京圖書館，也沒幾本書啊。

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    • Chinglish
      Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9:51 pm

      why do the school organise the students to study in the library?i had visited nanjing library,i cant find books which i really needed.

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    • rhubarb
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:17 am

      I used to be one of them ( not this school , actually ) , there s no heating system such thing in dorm or classroom, during the frigid days like these could be -7 celsiurs or even lower, so the only choice for your unmoving finger and pylon
      legs is library the place where a bunch of staff amassed to strive for a paucity of pathetic seats .

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    • cell
      Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 5:24 pm

      只有图书馆有空调。。。。。
      我是东大的。。。。
      因为不怕冷，所以不去图书馆。
      据说他们凌晨4点去排队。

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  4. Jan
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 10:27 pm

    Waste of time. If you really want to study hard, you stay in your dormitory. Buy yourself a heater. If you study that hard you should be able to find yourself a good job and pay back the heater with less than 1 day of work. Is a heater not a good investment in the future if it creates a good and comfortable environment to study in? I think there is something really wrong with these students.

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    • Xi
      Monday, January 18, 2010 at 10:49 pm

      Heaters are not allowed in most university dorms, otherwise most of them would’ve bought one already.

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      • tins of sardines
        Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:39 am

        Just like corruption is not allowed in the government, driving on the wrong side of the road is not allowed, spitting on the side walk is prohibited, like ill gotten gains are not honourable according to confucious and like my fake tracksuit pants profess; anything is possible.

        It might have something to do with the fact these students won’t spend 25 kuai on a cheap radiating heater or those little hello kitty heated slipper pad thingies for the floor to put their feet into.

        However, they will spend several thousand on a top of the range mobile phone. They should care more for their feet than their face.

        A case of the severe short sightedness that the people of this glorious garbage dump regularly exhibit.

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        • Carwyn
          Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:03 pm

          Quite a lot of dorms have systems that overload if anything more powerful than a mobile phone gets put in. Also not very many sockets either, so most things will need to go through notoriously shitty extension cables.

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        • go live in a dorm
          Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 6:43 am

          Most of the students definitely don’t spend several thousands on a mobile phone, they save everywhere they can. Maybe you don’t realize that in most dorms the students pay the electric bills.

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          • Tins of sardines
            Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 9:46 am

            Yeah I do realise they pay their own electricity bills.

            But can you really see the point in putting your education on the line to try and save heating bills for 2 months a year during the gap between when the cold weather starts and when they turn on the heating?

            I live in a university dorm. I know what can and can’t be plugged in and a small oil column heater is fine.

            Sure the electrical systems here are not the best but don’t use a heater with an electric motor and it is ok.

            Also you will find that 20 year olds in Universities are ridiculously uneducated in life studies. The teachers are required to act as pseudo parents and provide parental guidance to the students. It is a joke.

            Also, you would be surprised how many of the students spend their school fees (provided by their parents) on laptops, mobile phones and other face giving crap only because they know that the government can’t kick them out of school for not paying their fees. The government will provide loans for the studies. The parents are morons. The students are morons and usually the teachers are morons.

            China. A bronze statue on clay feet.

    • C
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:48 am

      “If you study that hard you should be able to find yourself a good job and pay back the heater with less than 1 day of work.”

      My bro. Studying harder than hard is the first step. Finding a job is the second. Getting paid…who knows when.

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    • rhubarb
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:38 am

      u thing u r smarter than them hah? u have totally no idea what they have been through, the limited electricity current is 2 ampere , which means only a fluorescent is allowed there , even sevel cell phone charges could blow the fuse.

      try to bribe the door janitor to alter the current ? not even think about it , he wont give you a damn , he think he s much better than u . several hundred rmb is far from enticing these “ppl”

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      • Tins of sardines
        Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 10:00 am

        2A x 220V = 440 Watts and a Fluorescent light = 18 watts

        Therefore you can easily run 24 fluorescent lights.

        Also, a standard nokia mobile phone charger out puts about 1.75 watts (5v x 350mA) which would mean you could run about 250 mobile phone chargers.

        Are you sure about the 2 Amp limit or did you pull that figure out of your proverbial?

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  5. jerrym
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 11:15 pm

    It’s amazing to find that people still use the library in the Internet age.

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  6. xiaobei
    Monday, January 18, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    If one understands the harsh cold weather in Nanjing, imagine what the poor people went thru during the Rape of Nanjing period? The huge number that had to seek shelter in the ‘international peace zone’ open compound.

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  7. LAOWAIXIAN
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:36 am

    HI I AM BAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
    WELL, the reason students rush to the library are as follow:
    1- male students` dorm is stinky; hanging socks; retards watching jap animes on their computers; nerdy topics,etc…
    2- female students` dorm is full of wide contact lenses; they start hating one another after some time due to beauty competitiveness and breast size so they want to get out to breath some fresh air.
    With these two reasons above the real question is: WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO STAY INSIDE A CHINESE UNI. DORM EXCEPT FOR NAP TIME?

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  8. Anon
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:24 am

    Doesn’t seem to make that much sense unless they’re actually planning to use library resources. I’m sure it’s not any warmer standing in line than in the study halls, and standing in line is probably going to cut the effectiveness of your studying by half, if you even try to study at all. And you’re probably going to be in line a loooong time if everyone you’re waiting on is also there to bury their noses in books for hours.

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  9. m5
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:25 am

    Um, really? I dont remember it raining this week? When where those taken? I live in Nanjing, and im less than 10 minutes from the campus….

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  10. Pretendiname
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:48 am

    This looks a little bit more like a matriculation line than a library queue, to add a cynical tuppence.

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  11. sezza
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:02 am

    there are lines this long in sydney… but it’s strictly for oktoberfest at unsw haha

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  12. G0ld
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:40 am

    If I see that huge of a line to the Library I wouldn’t even bother with it. That’s like a guarantee that people have taken all the good useful books out already.

    Also University libraries tend to be open 24 hours, so why not take a nap instead and then go to the library at midnight when less people are there.

    Aren’t there like tons of pirated books for sale in China anyway. I’m sure 10-20 rmb per book is a good deal to avoid this line.

    I’ve only seen lines like these in Western Universities for Student Loans.

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  13. kiki
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 4:25 am

    The library actually has enough seats for all these people in line? If the library’s the warmest place, I wouldn’t mind sitting on the floors to study.

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  14. Wurlymonster
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:25 am

    I think some people are missing the point of this… It’s not about studying its about finding somewhere where its warm. Suzhou Uni is exactly the same – students aren’t allowed heaters and the classrooms only have heating that comes on at certain times of the year. I can’t remember when but I remember sitting in a class on a 4 degrees day and it still wasn’t the “right” time for the heating….. From memory in Suzhou November and December heating was not allowed. I think it starts in Jan….

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  15. akbar lo
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:39 am

    save the time and study at fucking home.

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    • ImmortalTechnique
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:27 pm

      “Is this necessary?
      If you don’t go to the library, are there no other places for studying??? And the time spent lining up should be wasted just like this??? ”

      This and the comment above. Seriously. What’s up? Get a couple more blankets, wrap a comforter around you and study in your dorms. The time wasted waiting in line is ridiculous. Sheep following sheep.

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  16. germancockroach
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 6:57 am

    There are no universities in China. What are called ‘universities’ in China are in fact CCP obedience/training schools.

    And the Chinese students lined up want to get in a warm library. Instead they should just get their girlfriend under the sheets and put it into her to keep warm.

    The Chinese ‘education’ system is a joke anyways. The Chinese will tell you that. My Chinese friends say, “The only thing worse than the Chinese men’s football team is the Chinese education system.”

    Really, the system serves to brainwash the Chinese, not educate. The can’t creat/problem solve, they can only regurgitate what they have memorized.

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  17. OTIR_HASSAN
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Dumbasses never heard of coffeeshops? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit

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    • 傻子
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:24 am

      seriously. i was thinking that the entire article.

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      • FOARP
        Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 8:17 pm

        Errmmmmm . . . . The Xianlin campus is literally about 20-30 miles out of town, at least a 100+ yuan taxi ride back in 2005, given that the average Chinese university student gets by on about 500 Yuan a month this would be a bit of stretch.

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        • Dr. Jones Jr.
          Friday, January 22, 2010 at 4:41 am

          The Xianlin campus is only a 1 or 2 kwai bus ride away from parts of Nanjing that have plenty of coffee/tea shops and other possibilities for warmth and studying. Costs 45 – 50 yuan by taxi from Gulou district, but that’s beside the point. Clearly there are options aside from waiting in a line for a place in the library.

          What these students suffer from is not a lack of warm places to study, but loneliness. ;-)

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    • germancockroach
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:59 am

      Perfect example of Chinese ‘university’ students being unable to think themselves out of a wet paper bag.

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    • Hassan the Royal Dumbass
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm

      Hey genius, did you ever stop to think that poor university students might not be able to afford expensive coffee shops – if there are even any in the vicinity?? Outside of the big city centers there aren’t a lot of Starbucks and other fancy places where cool guys like you can go to sip lattes and laugh at your male friends’ little foam mustaches in an annoying display of repressed homosexuality.

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      • germancockroach
        Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 6:31 pm

        Did you ever stop to think?

        What a fucking ‘tard you are.

        And I’m sure you enjoy repressing your homosexuality.

        Go stick a butt plug up your back door and hammer away at your monkey. Undoubtedly you’ll feel better and return to Chinasmack with a healthier attitude.

        You’re welcome.

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      • Dr. Jones Jr.
        Friday, January 22, 2010 at 4:48 am

        Wow, Hassan, apparently you’ve never been to a Chinese city before. There are plenty of cheaper, Chinese-brand tea shops. No need for these students to go to the Starbucks at 1912, Hunan Road, or Xinjiekou… they can find quiet, affordable study haunts all over Nanjing.

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  18. hopalong
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 10:37 am

    See this is what happens when you force your students to still learn by rote. They have to sit down and memorise everything and that takes a lot of time.

    Make me feel glad my University education was not just about rote knowledge learning but actual skills that will make sense across a broad variety of areas…

    I must note that these students do work very hard and I respect that. I will however say that working hard is not the same as working smart maybe the line would be shorter if they had a different style of learning than just having to sit and memorise their books and their lecture notes.

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  19. Zhang Fei
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:40 am

    Sounds like Nanjing doesn’t have enough Starbucks branches. These kids should get a clue. Buy a cup of coffee for 12 yuan and stay the whole day.

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  20. fireworks
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    What about studying at home, food court in a mall or the local library. Unless you want to go and borrow a book from the library, stay home or in a computer lab.

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  21. Shanghairocks
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    You guys need to be lonely first to study.. And everybody thinks I am crazy…

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  22. 傻子
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:35 pm

    well, at least it didn’t turn out like the stampedes and mad rushes at carrefoure when they announce a sale on cooking oil.

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  23. jimwhatson
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    I went to uni in the UK and i think you would see the same thing if it was not for the fact that almost all the students are lazy drunks.

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  24. moom
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    I studied as an undergrad in Jerusalem which is much colder than most of the country in winter as it’s 800m above sea level. In a hostel/dorm I stayed in there was heating but only for limited time each day (in the evening). So if you wanted to study there during the day you would be cold. Additional electric heaters were not allowed. I was caught once using one and reprimanded and not allowed to stay the next year. Americans will find this hard to understand…. When I taught in the US the classrooms were too hot in the winter and we couldn’t do anything but open the windows (my office was too cold though).

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  25. moom
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    There are lots of Marie Antoinette comments here from people who don’t seem to understand the conditions in China at all…

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  26. Anon
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    Agreed. Fauna, this site is wonderful, but it has become remarkably adept at attracting idiots who don’t know the first thing about China. The ignorance is almost painful.

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    • Mike Fish
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 9:08 pm

      this site wouldn’t be very useful if it only attracted old China hands now would it? if you’ve lived in China a few years and knew anything about the place and had learned the language, you wouldn’t need Fauna to translate this stuff. Onc could just argue with Chinese folk in Tianya forums or wherever. Chinasmack attracts just the right mix of ignornat/naive know-it-alls who have no clue about China, “expert” foreigners who know everything because they taught English in China for a year and went to the Great Wall, and Sea turtle Chinese who having lived/studied abroad now know with certainty that not only are they better than all their countrymen, they are better than all the foreigners too. We all have our place here, even the ignorant ones. It’s like an internet food web or something. If people are ignorant, educate em and stop whinin.

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  27. Lock
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Not matter where you go usa/canada/aus, it’s normally the chinese who congregate and study in the uni library. so isn’t just normal that the same happens in china?

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  28. OTIR_HASSAN
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:11 pm

    Hassan the Royal Dumbass says:
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:46 pm

    “Hey genius, did you ever stop to tink that poor university students might not be able to afford expensive coffee shops. ”

    —————————————–
    1. Bus ride to and from coffee shop 4 rmb.
    2. Tall Starbucks Tazo tea in Nanjing 12rmb.
    3. Dumbass know-it-alls ….. Priceless

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    • FOARP
      Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 8:22 pm

      Ride into town by public bus from Xianlin – 1 1/2-2 hours ride changing at least once (university buses won’t take students).

      Taxi ride from bus stop to Starbucks – 10 kuai at least, or maybe a subway line depending on the new lines – they weren’t built when I was there so I don’t know.

      Starbucks – 12 kuai if you can get a seat, and you should carry all your books with you.

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      • Dr. Jones Jr.
        Friday, January 22, 2010 at 5:13 am

        And how long did they spend waiting out in the cold? A bus (even the 1 kuai unheated ones) is at least going to be warmer than that. And going by the length of line, a half hour or so in the bus (maybe Xianlin isn’t quite as disconnected from Nanjing as it was in your day?) each way might well be less of a time penalty. And again, there are tea/coffee/warmth options other than Starbucks if your goal really is being studious rather than hipster.

        P.S. The second subway line isn’t finished yet, but seems like it’ll be done soon (haven’t paid much attention to the reports, so I don’t know exactly when).

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  29. Octavian
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Too many Chinese people in the world. It’s crowded.

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  30. dilladonuts
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:06 pm

    Starbucks is for hipsters/yuppies and the ignorant. You can study all day, and end up being a robot. I guess thats the Chinese way though, memorize, memorize, plagiarize. =)

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  31. James
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    @jimwhatson

    You wouldn’t see this in UK university because English Universities provide private (single) dorms for students and required to provide central heating by law. Students would create a fuss if they didn’t have it. Also, temperatures in the UK wouldn’t get close to the cold these Nanjingers are experiencing. I do agree one one thing though, UK uni students, are, on the whole, lazy drunks. My opinion is that the UK students could definately do with a dose of Chinese students work ethic and self-control, and the Chinese students could take a slice of the UK students sense of fun and adventure. Both sides seem generally to have too much of one without the other.

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  32. LOLZ
    Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 6:45 am

    Yikes. It sucks that many places in China do not have heating systems, like dorms. Let’s hope that one of these students will become a gazillionaire in the future and donate some heating systems.

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  33. hung
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 6:10 am

    图书馆人多了就不像菜市场了吗。 我看啊，自习的意思是看着别人学习自己才学习。

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  34. yit
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 9:14 am

    Most Chinese students have to spent 1/10 of their study time on communist theory,and 1/3 on English(mostly failed),about 40%+ of their times are wasted.that was sad.

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  35. Of Canada
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    I used to chastise my Chinese wife about quitting her university. . but then I saw the conditions. Now I know I would have done the same if I was in her position. She was able to keep her mind and spirit intact . .

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  36. Colin M
    Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 11:54 pm

    Does it not seriously bring the intelligence of Asians into question if they are willing to wait for 5 hours in horrible weather conditions to study. I mean, you only need a table and some books to study, and the table isn’t even that vital. I have a better idea, spend those 5 hours you would have waited in line studying at your home and then go stomach punch some other Asians. I now understand why Asians are the 4th best race.
    1) white, 2) mexican, 3) polish, 4) asian, 5) all others.

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  37. tdy
    Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    seeing my neighboring Chinese youth… i too shall persevere on upcoming exams.

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  38. Bill Rich
    Monday, January 25, 2010 at 12:29 am

    And now you know the line-ups in US airports is not too bad.

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  39. tim
    Monday, August 9, 2010 at 1:48 pm

    Woah they actually line up now?

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  40. bleah
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:02 am

    1.) If you would insert this into Wikipedia, it wouldn’t be displayed right away and someone would probably revert your changes.

    2.) You can also find Books on the Internet.

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  41. Redfroggy
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:26 am

    You may want to read the original post more carefully: It’s very cold in the dorm! They go to the library not for the books, but for the heater!

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  42. m5
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:31 am

    You can also find totally wrong stuff in all sorts of books. Having something published doesnt make it true any more than does having it posted on the internet. Always check the sources, book or internet.

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  43. jerrym
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 1:34 am

    yeah, I saw that.

    I guess it doesn’t register in mind that people would leave some place that’s semi-warm to stand out in the open for 2 hours to get into a warm space.

    For me, bundled up with multiple layers of cloths > standing in line for hours.

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  44. whichone
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:20 am

    You sir, are the amazing one.

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  45. ralphrepo
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:07 am

    I agree. I too, find it amazing that we Chinese, on the one hand, can behave like rapid animals at a bus or rail stop, can also stand in an orderly line that’s a mile long; really a striking dichotomy. The thought struck me also, of how comical it would look if students threw themselves in through the windows (like people used to do with the old style trains) in a rush to get ahead of the line, LOL…

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  46. tins of sardines
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    It looked like there was some guy on an all powerful megaphone.

    My guess is that the sob story of looking for somewhere warm is a load of crap and the students were lining up for a test. Maybe TOEFL or something along those lines. Doesn’t seem reasonable or rational to line up like that for a library otherwise in rain, wind, sleet and snow.

    Still… reason and rationality… not something I see a lot of.

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  47. tins of stupidity
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    You’re an idiot.

    I taught at a Chinese university for a year and had students come in with minor frostbite – and this was in Hunan. You have no idea how cold it is in the winters, especially with no heating or hot water in the dorms. I understand 100% why these students are lining up. Even after 90 minutes in the classroom teaching my feet would be numb, and I would be running home to blast the heater and take a hot shower.

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  48. huh?
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    so…Starbucks customers should be sent off as slaves…but imitation IP-raped Fuckbucks customers should be lauded? confusion

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  49. Tins of sardines
    Friday, January 22, 2010 at 7:58 pm

    Don’t tell me you lived in a dorm there.

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