{"id":23492,"date":"2025-01-10T18:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=23492"},"modified":"2025-01-14T02:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:39:23","slug":"taiwan-day-3-national-taipei-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2025\/01\/10\/taiwan-day-3-national-taipei-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Day 3 (National Taipei University)\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2025.1.6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing from today while visiting NTPU that surprised me was how similar I observed college life at NTPU to the US college life. At NTPU students spoke about getting involved in interest-based clubs and community groups. For example, I spoke with an NTPU student who is involved in their dance organization and I recalled Rollins Expressions and we connected over our appreciation for dance. Additionally, not unlike Rollins, just off campus there was a variety of restaurants and fast food spots. Similarly, the grounds of the university itself are familiar. Each category of academic concentration had a separate building on campus, which is quite similar to most US colleges. NTPU even had a lake called the \u201cMind Lake\u201d which was a feature of the campus and served as a study spot and a place to ground oneself and observe life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972-850x626.jpg 850w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_4972.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The student dorms also faced the lake. This, naturally, reminds me a lot of Rollins with Lake Virginia. On the same note, NTPU students seemed to enjoy watching the geese and wildlife on the lake, much like I have done many times at Lake Virginia. Ultimately, I wasn\u2019t sure what I was expecting, but I was pleasantly surprised to see how familiar NTPU life seemed to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025.1.6 One thing from today while visiting NTPU that surprised me was how similar I observed college life at NTPU to the US college life. At NTPU students spoke about getting involved in interest-based clubs and community groups. For example, I spoke with an NTPU student who is involved in their dance organization and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan-field-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23492\/revisions\/23496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}