Peking University is a place of contradiction. I personally think the students achieve much more than the school does, which is ironically consistent with my theory of going to a school too. An ambitious student don't go to an honorary school, you go to a school to honor it (well, of course, eventually, not that you can know that when you're still in the school).
The school facilities are really poor. They had a grass soccer field but isn't usually available. I played my freshman cup semi-final on the field but we lost to physics department. They are now going to change the soccer field into a parking lot for the table tennis stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. So it seems either the students don't need a playground or the table tennis stadium won't need a parking lot after the Olympics. During the process of building the stadium, it was once on fire. But they didn't plan for the fire so there was no way the fire cars could get near so they just watched the building burn down and start over again. Now I kind of suspect some PKU student did that.
I only met very few new people in PKU, but because 48 out of 51 in my class went to Peking or Tsinghua University (and the overall rate in China is / of the highest scorers) I was kind of with the same old gang.
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