They briefly considered somewhere more scenic like by the beach or mountains, she said, but landed on Chapel Hill partly because they wanted to be in a college town, even if it wasn’t their own. “So we’ll get a college feel. We’ll be around the college scene but it won’t be our school.”Or what’s left of the college scene. More than 30 students from China who attend American universities plan to create a college collab courtyard in Beijing. San Diego, Brown, Duke, Stanford and Middlebury, are planning to live in several apartments that face each other so they can somewhat recreate the American college experience remotely and study and socialize together.

Source: New York Times August 28, 2020 09:00 UTC