Finally moved to the engineering campus! It is strange how at home I feel here. The campus is probably around 3 times the size of Purdue, with the buildings sprawled out over a lot of area. Plenty of trees and fields fill in the gaps making the walks pleasant. Also, there are thousands of people my age wandering around! (Mostly on Bicycles. A few of my friends got bikes for around 300 kuai, but I haven't gotten a chance to make the investment yet.) The mechanical engineering building is a 30 minute walk from my dorm, so a bike will be necessary. The nicest thing is that most of the students have very good english and are more than willing to make friends! Overall, it looks like Minhang will be much more like college than the downtown Su Huei campus. Here is my address in English and Chinese:
Daniel Flavin
800 Dongchuan Road
West 51, Shanghai Jiaotong University Student Apartment, Room 404-2
Minhang District, Shanghai, China 200240
上海市闵行区东川路800号
上海交通大学西51栋留学生公寓
404-2房 Daniel Flavin收
200240
The room is definitely smaller than the hotel was, but it's comfortable and feels more like "my own" than the other room. The beds are softer and there is way more storage space. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks, especially with the sun shining and the warm day outside my balcony!
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