Tag Archives: Columbia University

Columbia Students Forget Their Sanity

By David Xia | Published: December 22, 2009
Do Columbia students need to be sane human beings? What does it mean if we do?

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College Student Stores 22 Bottles of Urine

By David Xia | Published: October 16, 2009
Imagine your roommate has been secretly storing his piss in bottles. Yeah...

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Columbia SIPA Follies 2009

By David Xia | Published: October 15, 2009

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Hong Kong Ivy Ball 2009

By David Xia | Published: July 7, 2009

Ivy Ball is a social extravaganza for Ivy League alumni who live in Hong Kong.  Every summer, hundreds of men in tuxedos and women in evening gowns enter the Grand Hyatt ballroom for professional networking and auditory/gustatory entertainment. Centerpieces of freshly-cut flowers and seven-armed candelabra holding two-foot-long candles tower over guests. A chandelier of glass spheres sparkles above a hardwood dance floor. This year’s theme was “Take a Chance.”

Ivy Ball 2009 flyer


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Megamalls and Clumsy Change

By David Xia | Published: June 22, 2009

When I left NYC there was no evidence that the Sun exists. When I landed in HK, there was still none. The first ten days of my stay were filled with cumulonimbus clouds and grape-sized rain droplets. Stepping outside is like entering a sauna or breathing with a hot wet rag smothering your face. The CEOs here are taking three to four showers a day to gain short-lived relief from all the humidity-induced stickiness. Some brief musings about HK:

  1. HK (and China for that matter) is not ethnically diverse compared to NYC. The city’s 95% Chinese.
  2. There are so many mega-malls that look exactly alike. Armies of cleaning staff ensure they are all freakishly clean.

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CEO HK Interns

By David Xia | Published: June 20, 2009
Columbia University's Center for Career Education (CCE) will, no doubt, post on its website photos of Columbia Experience Overseas HK interns who look like they're having way more fun than anyone has a human right to by being treated to free Cantonese food and an open bar at an upscale bar/lounge. (You know Philia Lounge will be a nice place even before you go because of its website. There's no way a bar that's not doing well is going to deck out its website with Adobe Flash and eerie techno music.) But here are some additional flattering pictures of the CEO contingent.

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Kowloon Tong

By David Xia | Published: June 17, 2009
Columbia's Center for Career Education has provided us interns with free housing during our internships in HK. NTT International House is an eleven-story dormitory of Baptist University, which is nestled in the Kowloon Tong (九龍唐) district.

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