Hi. It's Illinois Panda. It's a holiday and the last day of the long 8 days off. All the dining halls were closed, so I grabbed a pork Taiwanese noodle at MidSummer along Green St. on campus. I love this restaurant because it serves very g…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. We flew from the East Coast to Chicago in the early morning. Technically speaking, today was the last day of the trip. However, when we arrived at O'hare International Airport in Chicago, I just felt everything was…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. This was the last day we stayed on the East Coast. We traveled around Times Square and are heading back to Chicago. I'm writing this blog while waiting for the flight to O'hare Airport at LaGuardia Airport in N.Y. …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Happy Thanksgiving. This is the exact day of Thanksgiving day on the fourth Thursday in November. We went to the balloon parade on Times Square in the morning. It is the really popular annual parade festival on Tha…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today is the fifth day of the East Coast trip and is also an anniversary day. Just a hundred days have passed since I arrived in the U.S.! Almost one-third of the exchanging program was done. I'm willing to keep ru…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda, This is the fourth day of the trip. We traveled around in the capital of America. We got up in the late morning because we had a party on the roof of the house and stayed up late. We just start moving around noon a…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. This is the 3rd day of the trip. We traveled around in Philadelphia and moved to Washington D.C. We went to see the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Philadelphia Museum of Art This place is popular with Rocky Steps.…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Day two of the East coast! I got up at 5:30 am and took a shuttle bus to N.Y. Just after arriving in N.Y. at 10:30 am, we rented a car and drove to Philadelphia. We took the subway in N.Y. to go to the rental shop.…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today was the first day of the trip to the East coast. I leave Chicago at 6 am and landed in Boston at 9 am. Considering the time gap between them, I flew for about four hours. I couldn't sleep very well at the air…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm writing this at the airport to depart for Boston in the morning tomorrow. I'm taking a trip to the East coast for Thanksgiving holiday week! I'll post blogs about the travel for these seven days from tomorrow. …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Apologize for my laziness in not uploading blogs for almost a week. I wanted to share something with you, but I couldn't make myself feel like writing blogs. I don't excuse, lol. Today, I went to a Thanksgiving par…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I took the third Midterm exam in Econ 302 class. I felt I was going well with it. I did recap all the lectures and prepared very well yesterday. In fact, a guy who belongs to the same shooting team in MACS140 class…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I'm sharing a Netflix drama I'm getting into with you today. It's "MONEY HEIST." It's a Netflix original drama made in Spain and released in 2017. It was very trendy all over the world a few years ago and is still …

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Today's blog seems to be the assembly of small talks about an ordinal life. I've already experienced a temperature under 0℃ this year. When I get up and go outside in the mornings nowadays, it's freezing as if it's…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I just noticed that I learned to type the above sentences, "Hi. It's Illinois Panda." as fast as the password to open my laptop. It proves I've written blogs many times :) I wanna learn to write a blog within 30 mi…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. I went shopping in a shopping mall called Market Place today. It's a little far from the campus, 30 minutes away by bus. I went there to buy clothes and shoes to prepare for a freezing winter. Market Place is a typ…

Hi. It's Illinois Panda. Have you been excited about Halloween? In America, Halloween is a big annual event. It's not more significant than Christmas or Thanksgiving but as popular as them. Halloween day this year was Sunday, and the last …