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I have lived in three different areas of China and taught at three different Chinese universities. When I am there, I make an effort to explore neighborhoods, sample the local cuisine, visit the “night markets” (kind of like evening farmers’ and crafts markets), and take in historical/cultural sights that are off the beaten path.Three things that I like most about Chinese people, especially the undergraduate and graduate students I have the most contact with:(1) Friendly, helpful, generous, and kind to tall, ignorant White strangers who can speak virtually no Mandarin. At war memorials in Southwest China I have had broken old men come up and shake my hands, thanking me for “helping defeat Japan” (think Flying Tigers). At desert outposts on the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China I have had fellow bus passengers (Hui Muslim people) share their dried red dates (the holy food of Muhammad) with me.(2) Hardworking. Undergraduate college students, especially, take a ridiculous number of courses (often 10 or more) each semester. They rise early, stay up late, and work on weekends. And yes, they sometimes fall asleep in my evening class. But they submit their work on time (thanks in part to highly efficient and motivated volunteer Class Monitors) and often — given that it’s written in English — the work is high quality. Many Chinese graduate students write better English than American undergraduates.(3) Optimistic. China had the snot beaten out of it by Britain and other Western countries in the “century of humiliation”. Then came the 20th century with Japanese oppression (think “Rape of Nanjing”), Communists vs. Nationalists, Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” (up to 55 million starved or were murdered etc), and Mao’s Red Guard/Cultural Revolution. And yet parents sacrifice everything for their children, with those born between 1980 and 2000 (my students) totally confident that they will live a life of moderate prosperity and political peace (if they just work hard enough—see (2) above).

1/5 is the best I can give, that too because I got the degree. Should have taken a drop instead of coming to this college.Here is a ‘short’ review of college. There is so much to be said but please bear with this long review and it will be the true happenings in the college. Short answer: If you want to take admission here, don’t. For others who want to know why, well here I go..College faculty:Most teachers are M.E. students(HOD’s aren’t even PHD!) who have come here to gain experience and care nothing about the students. Some of them don’t even know how to perform practicals. Almost everyone is biased and favor only those students who give textbook answers with the English grammar of a 2 year old. They will make you wait for hours even after college timing(9–5) if you want their signature or other something else, and then say, “I didn’t think you would wait. But I have to go now, come back tomorrow.”Oh and enjoy running errands for the teachers as well.You will lose your self confidence here. HOD’s change every semester and so does most of the staff. Because they don’t get paid on time, as per one of the teachers that has now left and works in a college in Kharghar.College administration in utter bullshit! So narrow minded but think so high of themselves and think students are shit beneath their shoes.That said there were a few good teachers who were helpful, kind and friendly so this was somewhat soothing.Fact: The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 50 times the Milky Way's size and about 2,000 times more massive. It is about 5.5 million light-years across. →Even that is smaller than the EGO of some of the faculty here.College facilities:Alright let’s see what facilities they “provide”.Canteen- for Engineering,Dental,Physiotherapy,Medical,Management,BSc. and Hospital combined! Doesn’t help that most of them have their lunch breaks at the same time.Labs-Most equipment is missing,If it is present it has been out of working order for years. Students are expected to write lab journals while having not performed any experiments.If asked in a job interview if you have performed a certain experiment, saying that college didn’t have equipment doesn’t help. Better reply on youtube videos for that.Water “purifier” are stinks a lot and water has a strange taste to it. Not the kind of taste over chlorinated/well water has. Something strange. It’s obviously bad when some faculty advice not to drink from here.Water is mostly unavailable anyway. That includes the water in wash basins. So um..enjoy dirty hands after a visit to the toilet.The ceiling leaks in monsoon! Yes that’s right. Also there is water everywhere on the floors so better watch out or you will fall and get admitted to the hospital right in the campus!Washroom floors are always dirty and wet because of leaks. If the washbasin doesn’t have water where could the leak be from?Hmm..Academics:Same story as all colleges I guess. Spend 4 years writing assignments, sample question papers, lab experiments, tutorials,etc. instead of actually understanding the concepts. If you think it will be worth it, it won’t be. You will be awarded mediocre marks even for proper submissions with good handwriting and neat diagrams because you weren’t their favorite student or you didn’t butter them up( tumne unka kabhi chata nhi hoga toh). Officially the college has 2 shifts for mechanical and civil with 120 intake for each stream.But there are 200 students in each branch so a hundred students in each class at a time.Classrooms are way too small for these many people.You are not allowed to see your unit test marksheet . I was told to pay Rs 250 per subject and write an application,get it signed by class incharge+subject teacher+HOD so that I can see my own answer sheet!Student’s final year projects on which they spend 1000’s of rupees is kept by the college only to be sold as scrap later without the permission of the students.Placements:For anything other than Biomedical, I can wholeheartedly say “NIL”. Yes, that’s right. Want to spend 90k+ a year and spend the next 6 months to search for a job until which the next batch has passed out and companies prefer them over you? COME TO MGM THEN. There isn’t even a placement training class for students. If you hear that anyone got placement through this college then:a) It’s a pool campus drive IN OTHER COLLEGE.b) The student has actually independently secured a job.Kudos to them, not the college.c) They are lying!Others:Mechanical and Civil branches are the people who suffer the most. Can you believe that if you are from these branches you can not even stand for the election for student council president?Students have to gather and protest so that we have a fest.College fest is held on public holidays as the Principal says it should not disturb academic curriculum, which is actually non existent.Some faculty have said that Principal refuses to give funds for lab equipment saying it’s not that important. And I know they aren’t lying as I have seen this first hand.“College” has a team for SAE SUPRA. Why do I have the word “college” in double quotes? Its because college doesn’t provide any funding to the students for building the race car. The students have to contribute from their pockets for the funds. Since the team secured a position in SAE rankings, the students were returned their money, 2 YEARS LATER!Forms, forms, forms, forms…..you will fill so many forms that the rest of your life you will puke at the sight of a form. Submit an infinite amount of documents and photos every semester.Every notice and important announcement is made a day prior to the last day. EVERY TIME! And it doesn’t help that the notices are put up 2 hours after college hours so you will know about it on the next day.No coordination between departments and even faculty of the same department. They don’t even have a bit of shame when a parent comes because its all the same to them. They will make you and your parent visit multiple people on multiple floors only to circle back to the first person you meet and then your job is done.The fact that the lift malfunctions often will not help.75% attendance is mandatory if you want to be saved from the hassle of..well defaulter forms. Yes another form! Even if you try to maintain the attendance, due to carelessness of the teacher in recording attendance on not the official record sheet but on a page of a student’s notebook which is later lost you will end up in defaulter list. If you try to complain they say, it alright we will be careful next time,so fill up the FORM this time. This scenario happened to me in 4 of 8 semesters.Computers in the lab on 2nd floor are out of working order, so the practicals were spent writing assignments.Any seminars are made compulsory in the name of attendance as they know students will prefer to go home or write assignments rather than sit in the crowded hall with 2/5 working AC’s.You might be knowing that the vacation after semester exams MU doesn’t give a long vacation(22 days) as compared to govt colleges because of weeks between exams and due to the preparatory leave. So most companies(like 95%) provide internships that are 30 days long. You need to fill a form for internship(NOC) mentioning the start and end date of the internship,get it signed by the principle, stamped by college and then submitted to the company to start the internship. So if your end date accounts for those 8 extra days,i.e an internship for 30 days instead of 22 days, the principal doesn’t sign your letter saying “ITS NOT ALLOWED BY UNIVERSITY FOR YOU TO TAKE INTERNSHIP IF IT CANNOT BE COMPLETED IN VACATIONS” even if its just 8 days,that too during the period when nothing happens in college.He actually refuses you to get an internship! And then companies will say you didn’t do any internship during college. ONE WILL BELIEVE YOU IF YOU TELL THE TRUTH. One might say then complain to the director about the principal.Well we can’t because he is the director’s son!Many people struggle to get network signal. So if you need internet access better find a friend who luckily has network and internet on their phone.You can’t rely on college computers to get access to internet.You will regularly find yourself in long lines outside xerox center in scorching heat/rain(85% chance xerox works) as suddenly college has told you to fill a form or get some document photocopied. You will constantly find yourself writing applications to do anything, be it late file/assignment submission,fee payment, getting you own marksheet,etc.Well this answer has been long and I think I’ll update my rating of the college.0/5 because the degree was because of my struggle,hard work and perseverance.Now you decide if you still want to take admission here.THANK YOU FOR READING!

This will vary greatly depending on your field of study and whether you are at an R1 research institute (where you are hired to do research first, and teaching a bit of graduate classes is secondary) or something more like a teaching institute (where you are primarily hired to teach undergraduate students, and research is secondary).In this case, I’m describing the job of an English Literature and Linguistics professor at a small liberal arts college, where I teach a 4/4 load, and I am mostly responsible for teaching and mentoring students rather than doing cutting-edge research and publication. I’ll talk a bit about R1 researchers in my answer, though.Morning: I typically get up around 6:00 a.m. putter around a bit with breakfast, then, shower, dress, and walk to campus (about 1.5-mile round-trip each day). Once there, I teach my first class—usually at 8:00 a.m., but sometimes at 7:00 a.m. if the Department needs someone in that slot. This is by choice, as I’m a morning person, generally, and I volunteer for early classes so that my colleagues who commute don’t have to get up so early.The class will be 75 minutes long if it’s a TR (Tuesday/Thursday) class, or 50 minutes long if it’s a MWF class. There’s a brief 10 or 15-minute break, then I usually teach a second class right after that—though some semesters I may not teach again until noon or 1:00 p.m., depending on how the schedule works out.In the fall, I tend to have two classes for freshman composition writers, plus one class in British Literature survey up to 1800 for the English majors, and the last class is usually either Historical Linguistics (History of the English Language) or Advanced Grammar for Linguistics majors. If one of my colleagues is on sabbatical, I might instead do her Shakespeare class that fall, though it’s not my strongest field. In the Spring semester, I typically teach two General Education surveys of Western literature (Greco-Roman up through the end of the Renaissance), one class on Advanced Research for the Honors program, and then a fourth class of my choice—typically something medieval like Chaucer, Arthurian legends, Old Norse sagas, literature of Courtly Love, etc., but sometimes Greco-Roman mythology, the Inklings, or Science Fiction novels if a group of students seem interested.On MWFs, I typically have finished my classes by 10:00 a.m., and then I have office hours from 10:00-a.m. until 2:00 p.m. each day, often eating lunch in the office. During office hours, if students come by, I will sit down and chat with them about their projects, read through rough drafts of their research, and explain things they have questions about and so forth. Sometimes, I will walk over to the library with them to show freshmen individually how to the use the online databases, distinguish between peer-reviewed sources and popular sources, and so forth.If no students swing by during that time, I will instead prepare lectures for the next day or spend that time grading papers (which is an endless, endless chore for English professors, since unlike our colleagues, we may assign 5–6 lengthier writing assignments each semester as opposed to 1–2 essays, and we don’t merely mark the grammar problems but usually actually write up explanations in the margins to explain the grammar in detail). If there’s an upcoming examination, I will also prep in advance 2–3 versions of a midterm exam for those classes (typically one unique to each section plus a spare version to use as a makeup exam if students miss the test.)Lunch: If my schedule that semester allows it, and I’m not eating lunch in the office, I normally eat lunch in the faculty lounge, where there’s a fridge for my department to store some food. Sometimes, a small group of 2–3 of us will wander off to faculty dining room in the cafeteria, but that’s expensive. Other semesters, I may be scheduled to teach through the noon hour or have office hours through the noon hour, so I then usually skip lunch, sneak lunch in my office, or just have a big breakfast before going onto campus instead. Office hours then continue until 2:00 p.m.Early afternoon: Typically, after 3:00 p.m., the day varies greatly. If there was a recent crush of papers, I may still continue grading until I go home around 5:30 or so for a brief supper, and then continue grading essays and homework until I go to bed. On other days, the afternoon will be eaten up by meetings, as faculty members are usually on 2–3 different committees each semester. (In my case, I’m on the Honors Program committee, so we meet regularly to parcel out bureaucratic work, hear appeals from students, and supervise Honors projects, plan field trips for the Honors Program, and so forth).In other parts of the semester, I will need to schedule advising sessions with the half-dozen to a dozen students majoring in English who are assigned to me as my protégés. About two weeks before classes open up for registration, they will be assigned to come visit me individually, and we’ll sit down, look at what classes they have taken, and talk through what courses they need to take to graduate on time, talk about careers after they graduate, opportunities for internships, scholarships, or study abroad, and so forth.On other semesters, I may be planning to take students to Europe in the summer for a study-abroad class, so there’s an astonishing amount of time necessary to make all the travel arrangements, get in contact with museums to schedule group tours, arrange for cheapest lodging possible, and get in contact with scholars, writers, and poets over there so they can meet with my students. (Sometimes, because of the difference in time-zones, you have to do that at godawful hours like 4:30 in the morning so you can catch the Irish hostel-owner when she’s awake and in the hostel.)I’m also a manuscript editor for a scholarly journal, where it’s my job to farm out submitted articles anonymously to reviewers who are experts in the field, and poke them and prod them into doing their peer reviews in a timely manner. That’s generally on-going work that comes and goes in spats, but since my journal only has one issue per year rather than four, it’s not too bad.If there are no bureaucratic jobs to be done right-away, teachers will usually schedule themselves for 2–3 hours of research time each day. Part of that will be spent in the library, simply reading the most recent publications in your specialty to stay abreast of the field. For me, that’s medieval literature, so I try to schedule time to read everything published in Speculum and Studies in the Age of Chaucer, the two most relevant journals for my specific interest. I also schedule for myself an eight-hour marathon each December to drive up to a larger library in Knoxville, where I will force myself to read through The Year’s Work in Anglo-Saxon Studies, which does an annual summary of all published work about Old English topics.Part of that time is also research for specific projects you would like to present at academic conferences and / or submit to journals, especially for R1 schools. For medieval studies, that means getting access to images of medieval texts. In the bad old days, lit teachers would have to contact monks in European monasteries and arrange for them to get you copies and/or contact museums and arrange to get microfilm copies of made (and mailed to you) of relevant unpublished texts. That used to take months, but now such things are increasingly available online in digitized form these days.If the material is in Latin or a language you are weak in (in my case, Old French is my Achilles’ Heel), you will also need a spend a few hours translating it and typing it up, puzzling out the scribal abbreviations and comparing them against paleographic samples so you can figure out what the abbreviated words mean. God help you if the 14th-century scribe had bad handwriting. If it’s a language you don’t speak at all (in my case, German or Old Norse), you may have to beg a colleague to help you or pray that some other hard-working scholar has translated it into a language you can read.If I’m not in the middle of an unfinished research project (and I tend to do a lot less research than R1 professors would), I may spend some of that time updating my knowledge of literature generally. At small schools like mine, professors teach many general literature surveys to non-majors. I’m competent to teach classical Greco-Roman mythology and European literature up through the Enlightenment at the undergraduate level for general education, and sometimes get stuck doing 19th-21st century stuff in a pinch, but the more modern writings are not my strong spots. So, I usually try to read one recent journal article on each literary work I teach the next day, just to spot-check myself and make sure my knowledge is roughly up to date.Late Afternoon: I supervise several clubs and organizations for students on campus, and these often meet in the late afternoon. One group, the Old English Club, has five or six students in it who have fallen in love with the language of Beowulf, so we will meet once or twice a week in the late afternoon and practice translating some Anglo-Saxon prose or poetry for fun, rather than for a grade.Another, larger organization is the AX Honor Society, where I am one of the faculty sponsors. That is a massive time-sink, as we have regular meetings, and we have to organize tons of fund-raising for ourselves by hosting games and events on campuses so we can generate enough funds for our local chapter to send representatives to the National Convention each spring (plane tickets, hotel lodging, etc.). We also have our members submit research papers to conferences, essay contests, and a ton of other activities, so right around February when those contests happen, I might do about 30 hours of extra work over the course of two weeks, reading through submissions, selecting candidates, helping them revise papers, helping proofread posters for the science kids doing poster presentations, hearing them practice their presentations to get it down pat before the national convention, and so forth.Typically, I usually host one study session each week in the late afternoon for my struggling students. If several students bomb the mid-term, I usually lean on them to set up a time where they and I can meet outside of class once and week and just review/go over material they found confusing or didn’t understand the first time. A large part of these sessions is simply teaching them how to study effectively—i.e., actually buying and reading the textbook, annotating it with their own marginalia in the form of questions and comments; actually taking notes in class rather than simply sitting and listening; actually handwriting and re-copying the notes rather than typing them on their phones during lecture, and so forth. (You can tell students all these study tips verbally, but they usually ignore it at first because it doesn’t really become “real” to them until they bomb the first big test.)Evening: This varies a great bit. I tend to stay late at the office if I have a lot of work to do, as I have trouble concentrating on work at home, and I psychologically associate my office with “time to work” and associate my house with “time to play video-games, read trashy paperbacks, watch movies, or hang out with the wife.” So, if there’s a lot of work to do, I usually stay at the office until 5:00 or 6:00 p.m., then run home for supper, then possibly return to the office for another hour or two. Many of my colleagues have events they do in the evening after supper (such as my American Lit colleagues having events at the Appalachian Center), and I try to show up to those to support them, if I’m not exhausted.On the other hand, sometimes there’s not a lot of work to do on a given day—especially after the first week of class and just before students turn in their first big paper on the third or fourth week of class. In those cases, I may come home early at 3:00 or 4:00 p.m., but clocking out so early is generally a bad habit if you want to be successful in your career—especially at larger research universities.Around midterms and final examination times, I usually also go into the office for ten- or twelve-hour shifts of grading on the weekend as well. (Typically, during the 9-month school year, you may put in far more than 40 hours of work each week, even if you are “officially” only in the classroom 12 hours each week). That’s balanced a bit by more free time in the summer, as many professors only teach 1 summer class and then have 2–3 months of vacation time.I hope this information is helpful to you—thank you for asking.