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Every campus has one, and sometimes more than more: the often unlovely and usually unloved concrete building put up at some point in the 1960s. Generally neglected and occasionally even unfinished, with steel reinforcing rods still poking out of it, the sixties building might be a hall of residence or a laboratory, a library or lecture room. It rarely features in prospectuses and is never – never ever – used to house the vice chancellor’s office.

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I have a lot of catching up to do here because it’s been a busy few weeks with the end of the school year.

It’s strange but here in China most students are not actually around campus for their final semester of school. As second semester seniors they are expected to go off and find jobs and internships and generally get all the experience they should have been getting all along (and of course still pay for a semester of school while doing it). It is a little bit of a sad time for them because it is confusing, scary and I imagine lonely being away from all of your friends right when your college life is coming to an end.

I was on my own one night for dinner when I ran into a group of students I hadn’t taught since my first semester here. They were back to pick up their diplomas and were having one last dinner together. They kindly invited me along and we had a nice time with lots of toasting and a melancholy mood. Then we went to the field that plays a central role in most student’s lives. There they lit and sent lanterns off into the sky with their prayers, wishes and desires to combat, what seems to them now, an unstable and difficult future. It was a very beautiful moment and I really appreciate them sharing it with me.

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