The end of an era is upon me:  I have less than a month left in Hong Kong, and I can’t help but reflect upon the ups and downs of this phase of my life… Traveling to Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, and soon...

First, we took cabs to the HK international airport at 10 p.m. on a Thursday.  Our flight arrived in Cebu, Philippines, around 2 a.m.  We then proceeded to the Cebu Pier and took a ferry at 6 a.m. to Bohol, an island off of Cebu.  After a 40-minute...

This weekend, my friend who graduated form the University of Illinois about 3 years ago is visiting.  While being with someone who once lived here, but is now only a visitor, it struck me how close my time here is to being up.  As nostalgia began to...

I am taking this class entitled “Heritage and Culture” with an American professor visiting from Harvard University.  It is a small class, mostly of graduate students who are auditing the course, and I am finding it to be a delightful change from the...

Spring 2010 will officially be my last semester as an undergraduate student at Illinois. I just finished choosing my classes for spring semester, and it was easy. Illinois has an online application called Enterprise, that all students can access by...