John’s Blog

According to this article, the number of foreign students applying to US universities dropped by five percent this year. For Chinese students the figure was even higher:

But the CGS said challenges remain. Applications from the two largest source countries, China and India, are down 13 percent and 9 percent, respectively. Students from those countries are increasingly being lured by stronger domestic programs or by programs in Europe and Australia that are recruiting aggressively.

The article mentions that one of the reasons fewer students are applying to schools in the US is that it is so difficult to get a visa.

I, for one, am sad to hear that less foreign students are going to the US. Some of my best friends at university were from foreign countries, and I think that foreign students bring so much to the United States.

*The “less” should actually read “fewer”. For more information, see the comments.

明天胡老师，刘洪波和我要去北京理工大学做讲座。我们的主题，“人人都能学好英语”，也是我们新航道学校的一个重要的主题。如果同学有时间的话，希望我们可以在北理工见！（晚上七点钟在北京理工大学七号楼报告厅）

Welcome to my blog!

For some of you, this might be our first meeting. For others, we might have met before in class or at lectures. Either way, I’m glad to see you here.

This blog will be a place for me to share my thoughts about learning English, life in China, and life at New Channel.