What better way to end a stressful week with a field trip to a highly industrial and technologically advanced industrial park? A mediocre field trip to a highly industrial and technologically advanced industrial park. To be honest, I was really looking forward to this trip, since the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) sounded very intriguing.
We had to take a one and a half hour bus ride to SIP, which I luckily slept through. When we got there, we sat through a brief presentation about the area, which I found to be the best part of the SIP tour. As for the area itself, it is impressive. The planning is meticulous, as should be expected for a place with Singaporean influence. We were given a bus tour of the park (which is enormous), but it wasn’t very interesting. Even though the place is clean, it’s too sterile for my liking. The streets are pretty much empty (probably because almost EVERYONE who lives there is working). I would hate to work there.
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I initially started the day thinking I was screwed. I needed to do my Wild Swans report, but three midterms and a presentation left me with no time to write it. The solution? Well, I guess it wasn’t a solution, but more like a gift. Marketing class was canceled because we were going to Suzhou at the end of the week for Marketing! That meant about 3-4 hours of extra time to write my Wild Swans report!
I was pretty happy during City & Environment because of the cancellation, even though I had a presentation and a midterm. The presentation went well and the midterm wasn’t difficult (just really long). My hand isn’t fit for writing that much…
I spent the rest of the day pretty much writing my Wild Swans report. The 500 word limit was really hard to stay under, but I managed to get it to 550 words. The sentences didn’t flow very well though, since I had to cut out descriptive words and adjectives to cut down on the number of words. It also felt strange writing what was essentially a plot summary, but since those were the requirements, I’m won’t complain.