Monday, December 13, 2010

One Little Thing Happened in Stony Brook

Before I came to Stony Brook, I was studying in a private college in Penn State. It was much different than here. We have about one thousand students in school, and people were familiar with each other, even though we never knew someone officially, we could tell if he or she is from our school. People say hello and smile to every one in school. Professors are like friends to us, and faculty even organise trips to big outlets and cities. I thought that was what universities look like. However, transferring to Stony Brook changed my mind. I still remember when I just came here, I came to Health Center again and again just for the certificate of vaccines. They didn't accept anything except translated copy by any doctor. I insist that anyone know Chinese can translate the document for me because it is obvious that no one will cheat in such a certain thing, and no one will sign name in copy of wrong information. But finally I lost, so I had them took my blood to do the test and refused to take another shoot of vaccine. I think if this is happened in my previous school, they will take my certificate and have a Chinese to look at it, and then let me go. I don't believe there were no Chinese doctor in their office. I just wanted to prove that I had the antibody, and my certificate is real without doctor's translation (I had a Chinese student translated for me and they said no). I know no one really cares, but that's what I did, and I am upset about the inflexible rules. This is the only thing I don't satisfied with big university.

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