I’ve been offered a masters in both Beijin and the Arctic Circle and I am not sure where to go. I love nature and the masters in China would involve a lot of field trips, and the campus is situated in Huairou which has a bunch of beautiful hiking areas.
The arctic circle speaks for itself when it comes to the majesty of nature.
The arctic circle would only be for 1 year, whilst China would be for 2.
Both masters are great and interest me deeply.
I deal well with cold, but humidity gets to me. Not so much that it’s a detractor, but if I had to pick a weather I’d go for cold over clammy.
I in part applied to China because it’s the one country that takes climate change seriously, so having some connections there might be good.
I would take China frame 1. Escaping the anglosphere, being able to pursue the American dream of class mobility+home ownership, assisting a state project that isn’t genocide & racism, and eating the dankest food known to man make China one of the most attractive places in the world to me. If I still wanted to go to the arctic afterwards I like my odds of going with a Chinese group over there and having more effectual and relevant research with them.