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Tetris in China.

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Everyone knows the classic game of Tetris, game pieces of different sizes and shapes come from the top and you attempt to arrange them so they all fit together perfectly. I'm not very good at it, but it's a fun game. You know what is not fun? Tetris in real life. Imagine you're playing Tetris, except all the pieces are cars, and all the cars are on a highway, and the high way is in urban China, and you're playing the game during rush hour. In normal Tetris, if you have a row that is complete, it is cleared and you get points. As much as I want for cars to instantly get deleted and out of my way when they line up next to each other, it just isn't realistic. In China, everyone has a "I must get there first and anyone who gets in my way shall die by my hand" mentality. As a result, all the cars are as close to each other as possible, and swerving is common. Traffic jams are something I hate, it's just a complete waste of my time.  You sit in a ...

A Quick Break - Transfer time.

This blog post is going to be slightly different from all the others. For this, I will be answering a question that has already been asked of me many times. "How's your first quarter at Uni been?" The short answer to this is fine, however most of you already realize that when someone says fine it means that are most definitely not fine, so I'll go into more depth. There are quite a few major differences from Uni and Central that I still have to get accustomed to. The primary one is workload. At central I had daily math homework, weekly science homework, and the occasional essay, which is similar to Uni. The problem here is that the daily math homework and science homework at Central I could finish in probably 10 minutes flat, while at Uni math can sometimes take up to an hour and science is just more complicated in general. With the workload, came a lot of extra time to manage it, which I am slowly getting used to. I never had free periods or study halls before ...