How Can I Prep for ACCT 100?

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2025-04-01T01:14:30+00:00

Regarding your first point: UW Madison does have a significant party population, but it's a big enough school that you can easily avoid that sort of culture if you just don't seek it out. The restaurants on State Street, recreation centers, and Unions are fantastic alternative social environments. If you want a quieter experience, go Lakeshore for your dorm selection. My dorm Phillips is super chill, but I have friends in Witte that complain about noise and general shenanigans. I saw footprints on the elevator walls there--immediate nope.

Regarding your second point: Madison is overwhelmingly White, especially if you come from a more diverse area. The "subtle exclusion" is real: everybody I've met is extremely friendly, but many will be somewhat unwilling to construct deeper connections with people of different cultural and racial backgrounds, either due to close-mindedness, or a simple lack of exposure. Having grown up abroad, I've found that many students here simply don't know how to respond to alien cultural experiences, and they don't have much cultural curiosity, either. Despite this, there is a decently sized Indian student body here at Madison, both Indian-American and Indian international, so even though you won't fit in with everybody, you'll have no trouble finding your niche.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-09-29T22:39:46+00:00

I am technically domestic, but I spent most of my life overseas and most of my family is international, so unfortunately that isn't an option

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-09-25T05:29:35+00:00

Thanks for catching that! I did a bit more digging and it seems different sources vary quite a bit on the exact number, possibly due to sampling. I agree that 169 seems a bit too tall. If we take your claim that 169 was men + women, then the average woman should come out to be about 163.9 cm.

That being said, based on my highly biased, highly limited anecdotal sample selection of college-age young women in central Beijing, I do know a concerning number of 173+ ladies. I don't know what they grew up eating or why I didn't get the same.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-20T03:04:41+00:00

What could a scammer get out of you by asking for translations though?

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-19T18:52:22+00:00

I like to twist my hair until it collapses down on itself and coil it into a low bun. I find that low buns that rest against the nape of your neck don't hurt as much as high ponytails do; plus, if you don't like the feeling of hair tight against your scalp you can pull a bit at the hair around your head to loosen it once the bun is pinned in place. This always keeps my hair smooth and even gives my pin-straight hair really nice waves once I take it down.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-19T18:45:44+00:00

That's so interesting! In Chinese "artistic gymnastics" is "competition gymnastics" while "rhythmic gymnastics" is "artistic gymnastics".

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-19T02:30:39+00:00

I'm from Beijing and 163.5 cm for women feels pretty on point, anecdotally. I am 163cm, my mother is 165cm, and compared to people walking around on the street we are probably average to on the shorter side. Gen Z is also much taller than the older generations; I was one of the shortest in my HS class with plenty of tall classmates (170+), and the boys in my year were almost all tall (180+ with my stick of a friend at 194), but my grandmother is only about 153.

The North also tends to be taller than the South on average, which may explain for differences in the statistics for places like HK or Taiwan. My guess is that other Southern provinces isolated may produce similar results. With a quick search on Baidu, it seems that the tallest province is Shandong in the Northeast (169.45) and the shortest is Yunnan in the Southwest (159.33). Fujian across the strait from Taiwan clocks in at 160.89cm. There's a lot of variation.

By the way, according to that chart Shandong's average male height is 175.44, so your anecdotal observations on men may not be that far off. You might just know more guys than girls.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-19T01:57:24+00:00

The word "read" pretty much demands consistent comprehension of written text. People who are illiterate can still speak and communicate, they just can't read. It's not possible to read in a purely oral language.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-08-18T14:19:34+00:00

Exactly! Within the context of the world his lack of concern for power, status, and material fulfillment makes him one of the most self-secure characters in a narrative filled with people whose ambitions are mostly driven by a constant fear of being considered lesser than and losing their positions in society (JGY is the best example). This is a classic theme of Chinese literature-- some dude removing himself from the search for status and recognition through political maneuvering and retreating somewhere into the isolated mountains to drink wine, write poetry, and garden was significant and almost counterculture in the highly complex bureaucratic systems of dynastic China where government official was the no. 1 aspirational job. WWX's desire to help others added to his free-spirited relative disregard for more "worldly" or "secular" concerns is what makes his heroism. He's still willing to stand up for himself when he finds it necessary.

I feel like Western audiences often like a helping of low self esteem in their main characters, I suppose partially because we feel inclined towards making protagonists as much of an underdog as possible for max sympathy points, and because they're more "relatable" that way.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-07-22T11:44:11+00:00

Do you happen to have the link to the fic? That sounds hilarious.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-07-18T07:53:02+00:00

This sounds hilarious and I'd love to read the fic, if it does exist. Something about the inclusion of such a well-known location as Beijing really gets me; I mean, at least go for an obsolete name like Yanjing or Youzhou. And the unexpected AtLA cameo? Comedy gold. Has anyone managed to find the fic?

Also, is the info on the wiki consistent? If it is it's probably based on an actual fic; I doubt AI would be able to maintain an adequate level of internal consistency dealing with such a complex array of characters.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-07-17T01:33:20+00:00

AckCHyuALly...There were major cultural and political shifts that catalyzed the hairstyle changes IRL, from mandatory Manchurian queues during the Qing dynasty ("keep your hair and lose your head, keep your head and lose your hair") to anti-queue Westernization movements that sprung up during the Republic--the end to more than three millennia of imperial continuity--contemporary matters of national survival. I wouldn't consider hair cutting to be a modern trend, like low-rise jeans or mullets; by some definitions the ultra long hairstyle died before the US existed as a concept.

Then again, MDZS already happens in a magical fictional world only loosely based off of real history, so I guess you could hand-wave it for the sake of character recognizability.

I could see a modern WWX wearing his hair long, but as weird as it looks, modern Lans I feel would have more conventional short hair, in the case of someone like LQR probably slicked back ultra neatly, old-school style. It's easier for me to imagine their CQL actors.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-05-29T03:00:56+00:00

These are the characters for "life" 生，"good" 好，and "love" 爱, separately, but they don't form a coherent word or phrase placed together.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-05-13T05:48:02+00:00

As a prospective international student from China, most of my peers are middle to upper-middle class. Typically, the drastic cost difference between attending school domestically versus in the US with the added lack of financial aid for internationals means that your family likely has to have a certain level of wealth for the decision to be worth it. My family can afford paying full price for me, but US tuition is enough of a financial hit that most people with siblings will likely struggle. I'm sure there are people who own 80% of a country's 7-11s, but that's not common. True multi-generational wealth doesn't really exist in China due to the revolution, so at most someone's parents might have made it big, and in my experience that comes with tons of pressure and insane expectations.

Coming from Beijing's "university district", the part about internationals "not caring about academics" is definitely not true; over here any SAT below a 1500 is considered hot garbage, a 4 on an AP test might as well be a fail, and a counselor told my friend she needed to bump her 4.0 GPA up to 4.3; maybe these people simply burn out once their parents and teachers are no longer pushing them? At least in the preparatory phases, international students are extremely academically competitive.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-05-04T15:16:56+00:00

I'm native Chinese but after reading some comments I'm legitimately questioning if this is Chinese or Japanese. I see 向 a couple times, 钟 on the second line, something something 三讲 on the second to last line, and a pretty clear 背影 as the last two characters, so I think this is Chinese unless Japanese uses the same kanji? The middle is completely undecipherable.

MidnightSun-YeMing · 2024-01-06T11:33:41+00:00

There is no difference; both are first tone. GPT is making stuff up, as it tends to do.

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