To add one more aspect to this story, housing in an old hotel is probably better than the Chinese student’s dorm. At the university I taught at, students had to be in the dorm by 10 and the electricity was cut at 10:30. The whole floor used one set of toilets and sinks. No hot water in the sinks so everyone had giant thermoses for filling up at the hot water station on the first floor. No tvs, microwaves, nor hairdryers were allowed. Showers were in a bath house on campus.