Most lives on Chinese mainland campuses are quite conventional. You test in high school, you get placed or are eligible for certain universities, and then you join other students in a crowded dormitory for four years of instruction. You go to all your classes, you do all the work and the competition is four times greater than the US because there are four times as many people in China as there is in the US. You party on Friday and Saturday nites, and then you get ready for school again on Sundays. The pattern is seldom deviated from. You get the national anthem at 630 in the morning to wake you up on campus, and the whole sequence repeats until the four years are over. In this case, the two students involved continue their educations in graduate school. It is still pretty much the same grind. That is why there is little passion in most campus relationships; there is just no time for it. Interesting to see brought to life on screen.
