updated pics

ok, so at this internet cafe, i can upload pics onto this blog... i added a few for my old posts, so you can check them out if you want.

here's a pic of me and Dr. Chang from Zhejiang university. he's the head of the biology department at Zhejiang. he's a really REALLY funny guy... just the way he acts is hilarious. i'll have to explain more later 'cause it's just too hard to explain in words.

oh let me say a word about this university. it's the 3rd best university in china.. which is HUGE. i recently found out how the university system works here. since china really wants their universities to be top in the world, they pour all their money into the top 3 or 4 universities. So, Zhejiang, being #3, gets a ton of money.. that's why their campus is so incredibly new and beautiful. To get into these schools is crazy... before they apply to universities, each high schooler has to take a test which ranks them among all other chinese students in China (ie, ranked 5 out of 300,000). The #1 university gets to pick however many students first, and then the #2 university goes.. and then #3 (Zhejiang university gets to pick from what's left... etc. on top of that, these universities may sometimes only pick one person from each province in china. so, we had a few chinese partners in our group who were the only people from their respective provinces. that's insane to me, these guys are brilliant.