Campu s Life in America There are numerous differences between Chinese and American university education, many of us may think the campus life of American college students are free and easy to deal with. But according to the experiment of a lot of overseas student, the campus life there can be described briefly as “free but not easy”. Free Atmosphere The meaning of free is quite clear, and as we often see in American movies, college students there live a life almost independently. Many of them endeavor to make money to support their living expenses or even pay for their tuitions, so we can often hear about their busying doing part-time job, no matter what social status their families have. That’s totally different from the situation in China, where most students who try to find part-time job to earn money are those from poor families. The independence is not only shown in this way, the other evidence is that no one will supervise their study, which way they choose to learn and which life style to live in all depend on themselves. They have academic advisors, who will give suggestions on curriculum choosing, requirement of each professor and so on. They can also offer help about kinds of problems in life. Unlike us, they don’t have a “class” in which everyone has to take almost the same curriculum and always be together. In America, those who take the same course at the same time is called a “class”, as their classes are temporary, it’s impossible to assign a head teacher to a class, so it’s impossible to get someone to supervise students’ study. Furthermore, most student live in flat off campus from the second year of college, the freedom is further expanded. Those...
