1347: The High Value of Knowledge (4 More)
Xia Xiaolan hung up the phone and was a little dazed.
However, as Tang Hongen judged, there are too many things for her to do in the United States, and she doesn't have much time to tangle her feelings. If you are estranged with Zhou Cheng, then put it aside for now and solve it when she and Zhou Cheng are free.
She is really busy today.
When Wen's family came back and had breakfast, Wen Manni was going to go back to New York. Professor Wen disagreed:
"You should bring Xiaolan to get acquainted with Ithaca. Can't you put down your work for a day? Anyone can operate without a law firm."
Wen Manni looked over, Xia Xiaolan quickly waved her hand: "No, I have feet and a mouth, so I can do those things myself, I'm an adult!"
She is only going abroad for the first time in her life.
With a mouth to ask for directions, and no language barrier, Xia Xiaolan felt that she didn't need to waste other people's time.
She has experience living independently, not a giant baby!
Wen Manni also seemed relieved.
She still takes her job seriously.
Before leaving, Wen Manni also gave Xia Xiaolan a business card:
"If you encounter something difficult, you can call me and ask questions for free."
Lawyers in the United States are very useful, and it is even more difficult for a reliable lawyer who does not cheat. In addition to being able to consult questions for free, Wen Manni is as hot on the outside as Xia Xiaolan judged.
In the eyes of the other party, Xia Xiaolan is just a little girl, and she will not be mature enough even if she has not graduated from university.
Xia Xiaolan accepted the other's kindness, "connie, I may really need your help. After I have settled the school affairs, can I have a long talk with you?"
When she first arrived in the United States, she met a lawyer, and Xia Xiaolan thought it was a good start.
She will definitely make a trip to San Francisco in person, but before that, she can get help from a lawyer.
Lawyers are sometimes better than the police when it comes to finding people.
She also wouldn't let Wen Manni spend her time in vain, and she would definitely have to pay for it.
Wen Manni thought she was getting a driver's license or buying a car, so she nodded her head and drove back to New York.
Hu Ying came out of the room, "Are you going to report to school today?"
"Yeah, Auntie Hu, I want to report to school and go for a walk around town. I'm going to live here for another year, and I've got to get acquainted with Ithaca."
She can't be cheeky, live in the Wen family, and rely on the Wen family to support her, right?
She has to know where to shop, and if she doesn't rent, she can share other daily necessities. Xia Xiaolan ate two meals at Wen's house. Wen's family immigrated for a long time. Both dinner and breakfast were American-style. Xia Xiaolan probably knew what ingredients she needed to buy every day.
Professor Wen is still recuperating and does not need to go to work.
Hu Ying wanted to take care of him, so he couldn't drive Xia Xiaolan there.
Fortunately, the Wen family still had two idle bicycles, which Xia Xiaolan could ride to school. The largest building complex in the entire town of Ithaca is Cornell University, and it is impossible for Xia Xiaolan to get lost.
This year, Cornell's spring admission time is January 15th in the United States. Xia Xiaolan was late to report today, but she is an exchange student, and the school allows the report before February 18th, which is also when the Ministry of Education arranges to go abroad. To accommodate most students, most of the universities in the United States have spring admissions in February, which is just the right time.
Professor Wen was supposed to take her to school, but Mao Kangshan didn't know that Professor Wen was seriously ill recently.
Xia Xiaolan rode out of the car and looked at the environment in the town. The infrastructure here is very good, and it will take about 20 years for China to catch up.
But the US economy has passed this growth period, and the growth rate will slow down in the future. The country of China later attracted the attention of the world, isn't it because the economic growth rate is very strong.
She rode all the way to the university. The school was terrifying, and she asked for directions all by her mouth.
After a whole morning of tossing, the procedure was done.
With a class schedule, she can see at a glance which classes she needs to take.
Textbooks are purchased by myself.
The Ministry of Education did not count this part of the cost. The clerk kindly told Xia Xiaolan that she could buy used books:
"It can save you a lot of money!"
Chinese students?
They don't seem to be rich.
This person is really kind to remind, because college textbooks are really not cheap in the United States!
The textbooks are extremely non-uniform. What does each professor want to teach? The textbooks designated by him are monopolized by a certain publisher. The publishers set their own prices, do not buy or find similar substitute textbooks? Stop dreaming, no one dares to take the risk of taking grades, the professor assigns the teaching material, and will leave the homework from the teaching material!
And the alternative textbooks found may not be cheap, and they may have been designated by professors at other universities.
The second-hand book market has naturally emerged, and students who have already taken a certain course can sell their textbooks and buy from them if they want to save some money.
But publishers are not stupid, they keep printing new editions to protect their own interests.
In each new edition, the charts are changed, the page numbers are messed up, and the homework questions are updated. It is very troublesome to compare the old and new textbooks.
Xia Xiaolan was too lazy to spend this effort and directly spent money to buy new books.
There is a bookstore in the school, where you can buy most of the books in the class schedule. There will be three or four books in a course, which add up to a lot. The professional books are thick and expensive, and it cost Xia Xiaolan more than 700 US dollars... That is to say, she can afford it at will, and she changed to a public-funded study abroad student, and the state pays the tuition fees. She usually lives on scholarships and odd jobs.
More dollars is a real pain in the ass.
This is really not a small sum of money. Hu Ying was afraid that Xia Xiaolan had just arrived in the United States and couldn't figure out the prices here, so she specifically told her some expenses.
For example, Hu Ying and Professor Wen live as husband and wife. Their living expenses are about 70-80 US dollars a week, which is the cost of buying food for them for a week.
Xia Xiaolan bought all the books for a semester, and Professor Wen and his wife could pay for food for 10 weeks!
If it is not intuitive enough, convert it into Chinese currency, even if it is close to 3,000 Chinese currency according to the official exchange rate of 3.45, just buy a few textbooks?
Is it expensive in China? Xia Xiaolan once spent more than 10,000 yuan, but she donated many books to the library of Anqing No. 1 Middle School!
"It's okay to study abroad at public expense. If you study abroad at your own expense, you can't apply for scholarships. I really don't know how to live in the United States..."
Xia Xiaolan muttered, the high value of knowledge is particularly evident in the United States, and the money to buy textbooks can almost buy a used car.
She had been riding well, but suddenly squeezed the brakes.
Seeing an old acquaintance on the first day!
Ning Xue held a book and talked with several white students. She reported according to the normal spring semester start time. She has been studying architecture at Cornell University for a month.
Xia Xiaolan is still like a headless fly, and Ning Xue has obviously adapted to life at Cornell University.
She looked up and saw Xia Xiaolan.
She smiled at Xia Xiaolan, didn't come over to greet her, turned her head and continued talking to the white classmates beside her.
——Yo, classmate Ning Xue, did you step on the land?