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发信人: Baraque (小桐), 信区: Flyingoverseas
标 题: UMCP 换 F2
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Aug 15 21:00:09 1999), 转信
发信人: ahun (ahun), 信区: AdvancedEdu
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Wed Mar 4 04:44:49 1998)
I am posting some information about studying and living at UMCP, in changing of
your the current F-2 visa application situation in Beijing. Many thanks for
replying my post or email me to hun_a@hotmail.com
Thank you very much for your information. Since my 8b-7a is 15,932 and
8b-7 total is more than 3000, I am not so worry about my financial
situation, but I am more concerning the generally situation lately. I
may ask my wife to take the first try next week. So your promoted
information is highly appreciated.
If possible, could you post the below information about UMCP for me at
SMTH, it hard for me to get in there, and I don't if there are some way
that I can post it without typing the whole thing again. Many thanks.
UMCP is a good university, as you can tell from it's ranking, espicially
it's engineering graduate school and some art majors. But it's not a top
university, you may also aware of it.
UMCP's enrollment is large, maybe nearly 40k students now, make it more
well known around DC metro, even better known than some better but
smaller universities, like John Hopkins.
Currently, there are about 450 students from mainland China enrolling at
UMCP, plus those from Taiwan, Hongkong, and other Asian or Asian
American students, you can find a large asian population here, sometimes
it makes me don't have the foreign feeling. Also there is a big Chinese
community around, make your life quite convenience. You can get almost
everything you have in China, and you can find almost all kinds of
Chinese food here. Imagining during the past Spring Festival, there was
a celebration party in UMCP, some 3000 people attended (from the whole
DC metro). So, you may find it's easy to find new friends here, and find
more people to share your interest. Here we 've got soccer, volleyball,
tennis clubs. Those fans plays almost every weekend. You may want
subscribe a chinese students maillist holden be CGSA (Chinese graduate
and scholar association). You can just send an email to
cgsalist@hcs.umd.edu you just put get info at subject line, and with no
content in your mail, then you can get description of how to use this
mailing list.
Since Maryland has similar latitude as Beijing, I find the climate is
also quite similar, but Maryland's weather is milder. More rains than
Beijing (sometimes, maybe too much), but also not so windy.
If you're a more academic person, you may like to study at Cornell,
which is isolated which urban noise, but you like social life, I guess
UMCP is better. It close too large cities, DC, Baltimore, but it's not
in a large city (like Penn, you may find it's not too comfortable to
live in a large city like Philadalphia), it close to sea and also those
free national museums.
To think about the future, you may also find to live closing to urban
area might make you easier to find a job, although people do their job
junting mostly on web now. Since I am life science major, I am not quite
fimiliar with the job opportunities out of my area, but I assume there
are a lot of companies around DC, and they might be able to provide a
position in the future.
For those married students, there are also some good news. If your
spouse can't go to school very soon, she/he can find a job at a chinese
restaruant easily, (We all know that's illegal, right? maybe that's part
of the reason of the F-2 issue). And if she/he does decide what/where is
going to study, you can have more options. Consider this point than if
you study at Cornell(no more work opportunities and no more options for
the other person at the same area). You can find some universities
require only 550 Toefl and no GRE(or 1200 for three sections, hehe ) (of
course, you have to pay tuition by yourself) and you can find John
Hopkins, if you are really good.
There are some disadvantages, of course.
1, Living expense, especially rent, and car insurance.
Many people can rent an one bedroom apartment with about $300/month, but
here, is rent is doubled: one bedroom 600 or more and two bedroom 700 or
more. So many chinese students share apartment here, a two bed room is
shared by a couple and a single, the single pays about 300/month. Also
there are some houses available for students, if you don't mind to share
with 6-7 students, you can find a cheaper place. Transportation is
pretty good here, you can have metro (subway), metro bus and university
shuttle, you don't need a car immidiately. The car insurance is about
1000 for a singled new driver per year, which is several hundreds high
than most of other areas of US. But if you have $700-800 net
income/month, you won't have much financial problem. As your
stipend(8b-7a?) is about 17k, you can have a pretty decent living here.
2 Safty:
There about 70% residences in DC are black, and more than 50% residence
in PG county (UMCP's location), the crime rate is quite high. But it
also depends on communties and time. If you don't live in a dangerous
area (rent is cheaper), don't appear at wrong time at a wrong place, it
should be OK.
All right, I got to finish now,( because somebody besides me tell me I
wrote too much,) if you got more specific questions, just let me. Above
is just my personal feeling, decision is all yours.
Good Luck, and Best regards,
ahun
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