@@With the part support of the NTIO/TUDelft Scholarship, last September,
I had enough financial budget to begin my study in Department of System
Engineering, policy analysis and management, TU Delft. During 10 months
staying here, I have had a lot of wonderful study and life experience
here.
@@Leaving my family, I came to this country alone. After a long journey,
I arrived in very early morning. Out of the exit of the airport, I found
three persons arranged by school had already been there. They upheld a
board, which showed 'TU Delft'. I went to them and said hello with them,
they said they came to airport at 4.00 a.m. to avoid missing any new students
who arrived in early morning. They were so kindly that made me feel they
were old friend of mine. After all students arrived, two cars pick us
to the administration of TU Delft. In a meeting room, all the new students
came on that days were together. At the first, the chief officer said
to us, he knew all of us just left our family to come to an unfamiliar
country, almost of us have no relatives and friends here, they (he and
his colleagues of MSc office) will try to be as our temporary family and
friends. There, we were asked to sign some registration documents, about
30 minutes, about 20 students finished all the registration processes.
After that meeting, new students were divided into 6 groups, each group
had its own mentor. The functions of mentors are to help new students
to their new house (housing affairs were arranged by MSc Office in advance),
introduce how to live in Delft (how to take bus, train, and etc.), bring
us to buy a new bicycle, and take care of us in the first week. Well-organized
things and efficiency on the process of registration, which made me great
impressions about that.
@@In the first month, MSc office arranged three free travels for new students
for entertainments; of course, there were many extra many parties and
city tours by different faculty. The purposes of these activities were
to reduce home sick of the new students. Such kind arrangements made me
moved and let me know the administration cares about students. The attitude
of the school administration of TU Delft is different from those of schools
in Taiwan.
@@Different from the semester system in Taiwan, in TU Delft, there are
five 'quantils' in academic year. The period of the quantil is one and
half months. Between the successive quantil, there is a period of three
weeks. The first week is for students preparing test, the second week
is a test period, and the last week is 'holiday', which for refreshment
letting students have good spirits for next coming quantil.
@@One very strange phenomenon is 'academic quarter', which is a flexible
time for students and teacher transfer from one classroom to another (someone
will delay for class with some reasons), therefore, if the class is scheduled
on the 8.30 in the morning, often, the class will begin at 8.45. At first,
I am not familiar with that, and Awarder very curious that why almost
classes delay for 15 minutes.
@@For me, I think education quality is really good. Teachers prepare so
well on their lectures. My first course, Technology and Society, is a
good example. In that course, there are four main topics, but about 10
teachers taught us. After two weeks, there was a class, named 'evaluation'.
I was so nervous because I only learned little, but why teachers wanted
to hold a test. Finally, I found in this class, what we did is to evaluate
the teacher's performance on the lecture. The teachers will adopt students'
opinions to improve their lecture in next two weeks. In Taiwan, I never
think students can evaluate teachers face to face.
@@Many interesting experiences happened, but the most impressive was that
Dutch people are with 'very slow motions'. One time, I just wanted to
buy a internet cable line in a store. It took me almost 1 hour to pay
money. One customer argued about the telephone problems, the clerk explained
very detail to him. After 40 minutes, finally it's my turn to pay the
money. However, I said to him I need some information about the cable,
he tried to explain to me about 20 minutes. At that time, I almost lost
my patience. In Taiwan, I can buy a cable within 3 minutes. However, it
seems that all Dutch people are used to it. After I stayed here for 10
months, I found myself a little bit slow motions like Dutch.
@@A lot but can't mention within two pages. Although I really met the
cultural shake, I still learn a lot from taught-in-school and living-in-Holland,
well-organization, student-oriented teaching way and 'patience. |
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