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Tackle that seemingly endless selection of course offerings; a roundup of helpful resources and sound advice for selecting the best courses and acing them.

Ruth E. Carter’s Free Masterclass Returns With Lessons for Aspiring Creatives
Ruth E. Carter’s free costume design masterclass is back, giving aspiring creatives another opportunity to explore how the two-time Oscar winner turns culture, research and imagination into costumes that tell a story.
By Phyllis Caddella day ago in Education
They Opened the Dorms at -4°C. They Didn’t Ask the Students.
On the night of October 4, the temperature in Qilian County fell to minus four. The hotel front desk put up a No Vacancy sign. Tourists stood on the street with their suitcases. Staff from the Culture and Tourism Bureau arrived with a list and led them to two middle schools. The dormitory door opened. The matron stood to one side, a ring of keys in her hand. The culture and tourism director bent down to make the beds. The bedding was new. The bed boards had been slept on by students. Tourists said thank you. The director said it was what they should do. No one asked who used to sleep in that bed.
By Jin3 days ago in Education
I Had 10,000 English Words in My Head. Why Couldn’t I Speak?
You know the words. Reading feels like automatic doors. Then you open your mouth. The doors jam. You want to say, “Wire this into the pipeline.” What comes out is, “Put this new code into the old process.” The other person nods. You nod. The conversation moves on. You also move on, but part of you stays behind, staring at the sentence you did not say.
By Jin3 days ago in Education
Top 4 Data Analytics Courses Designed Around the Skills Companies Are Hiring For
Not all data analyst job postings ask for the same thing, and the type of company behind the listing often explains why. This article covers four data analytics course types, each aligned with a distinct segment of the hiring market, so learners can choose training that matches the kind of employer they actually want to work for.
By Gulshan4 days ago in Education
AI Made Answers Free. The People Who Win Now Do 3 Things Differently.
You know the feeling. A question that once cost an afternoon now costs a sentence. The model returns a page, sometimes ten. Definitions, frameworks, examples, counterexamples, a plan you could paste into a slide deck. Answers arrive like tap water. Turn the handle, fill the glass.
By Jin5 days ago in Education
Why Choose a China Internship?
My name is Pat McCarthy, and my connection with China began as a boy growing up in a modest home in rural Ireland. I remember my mother saying, “Get your old clothes ready,” when the China charity truck came to collect donations for rural Chinese children. I put my best shoes in the bag. My family also welcomed Chinese immigrants into our home after their restaurant burned down. Those experiences taught me to spare a thought for others.
By The Ireland Sino Institute6 days ago in Education
A German Textbook Tells Kids Chinese People Bow. It Also Prints Fake Chinese Characters.
A page from a German primary school German textbook has been circulating again. It comes from Klett’s Niko Sprachbuch series. The heading is “Unterwegs in China,” or “Getting Around in China.” Exercise 5 asks pupils to look at pictures, read the text, and discuss what is different in China compared with Germany.
By Jin6 days ago in Education
Who Gives Tsinghua and Peking University Their Value?
A contest-admitted student had Advanced Algebra on his desk in senior year. He did not need to take the gaokao, but he still woke at 6:30 and left the study room at 11 p.m. Some classmates had already worked in university labs. Some read English paper abstracts. Some had taught themselves general physics.
By Jin7 days ago in Education
I Chose My College Because of One Line of Poetry
When the college entrance exam scores came out, I could apply to Fudan or Nanjing University. The majors were similar. The cities were both good. I wrote Fudan first on the application form. My pen stopped. I crossed it out and wrote Nanjing University. Because of one line: “Four hundred and eighty temples of the Southern Dynasties, how many towers and terraces in mist and rain?”
By Jin7 days ago in Education
That Viral Story About a Student Using AI to Teach a Class Is Fake
The viral story is simple: at a university, the instructor of a general elective was absent repeatedly. A student could not stand it anymore, went to the podium, used AI to generate slides, and taught for an hour. It sounds like wish-fulfillment fiction. The course had already been canceled. Many students missed the notice, which is why there was an empty classroom. Even the premise that the teacher was absent repeatedly does not hold.
By Jin7 days ago in Education
The Cornell Gang Rape Case: One Night, Two Years of Silence, and a Campus Demanding Answers
I October 19, 2024, Ithaca, New York. No one can currently give a complete account, confirmed by a court, of what happened that night inside the Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University. What is known: a then-20-year-old Cornell female student, after drinking at a sorority, went alone to the Chi Phi house to see a male friend.
By Jin8 days ago in Education
AI Built an Algorithm That Beats Dijkstra. Then You Try to Run It.
I found the news late one night. Vals AI used 10 Claude Opus 5.5 agents. In 15 hours, they generated 289 files, built the C-HD shortest path algorithm, and passed Lean Kernel verification. The headline said: beats Dijkstra.
By Jin9 days ago in Education