Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

The semester may have started unconventionally, with HNC students taking classes from all over the world. However, one tradition remains this fall: The selection of the student committee. Every semester, the HNC invites its students to select four of their classmates as the HNC student committee representatives. The student committee, also known as the “banwei”  班委 , are responsible for connecting students with the HNC staff, as well as with each other. They host activities to help students interact socially and aid each other academically.    This semester more than ever, the  banwei  have tasked themselves with planning events focused on giving students opportunities to socialize with each other. Due to travel restrictions in China, many students are not able to come to Nanjing and live together at the HNC campus. Fortunately, the  banwei  have been very active and creative in...

Meet our new team of student bloggers at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC)! Elizabeth Gonzales and Eljoy Tanos are both pursuing Certificate programs at the HNC.  They will be sharing their experiences studying at the HNC throughout the academic year.  Elizabeth Gonzales, HNC Certificate '22 你好！ My name is Elizabeth Gonzales, and I am a Certificate student at the HNC. After earning my HNC Certificate, I plan to pursue the MAIS program at the HNC,  where I  hop e  to further my Chinese studies and concentrate on Comparative and International Law. I was bo rn and raised in Dallas, Texas, but attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. I graduated in 2019 with a BA in International Relations and Chinese.    I began studying Mandarin in college. I was always very intrigued by Chinese culture and history, so I ultimately decided to learn the language. My passion to learn Mandarin further increased when I was a first-year college student and took a cou...

Quinn Campbell '16 uses his HNC experience to impact individual lives, including current students What is your favorite memory from the HNC? For me, it was coming in third place at the Nanjing Dragon Boat Festival. We trained so hard for ten weeks straight, had boat practices every single Saturday, were lifting in the gym together and doing cardio practices. On the day of, we showed up and realized we were the least-practiced team there because we had only started training 10 weeks prior. But we had been working hard in those 10 weeks. Plus, we really wanted it, and we had our HNC community (including many teachers and both co-directors) cheering us on from the sidelines. We raced well throughout the bracket and ended up making it all the way to the championship heat, where we clocked our fastest time yet and came in third place overall! What is your relationship with the HNC today?  I try to participate in a Career Trek every year, and I’m the most recent member of ...