{"id":2621,"date":"2025-08-21T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2025-08-21T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:11:40","slug":"week-2-harvard-taipei-academy-%e5%93%88%e5%8f%b0%e7%8f%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-2-harvard-taipei-academy-%e5%93%88%e5%8f%b0%e7%8f%ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Harvard Taipei Academy | \u54c8\u53f0\u73ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"113\" data-end=\"365\">I\u2019d be lying if I said the course load isn\u2019t overwhelming. We have homework every day, \u5c0f\u8003\u8bd5 to prepare for, and a minimum of two hours of studying daily. But I know that once I figure out an efficient way of studying, the workload won\u2019t feel as heavy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"367\" data-end=\"845\">There were also so many activities on Friday and Saturday that I didn\u2019t want to miss out on, but participating in all of them was exhausting! The heat here is no joke. On Friday, I spent the day with another National Taiwan University student, and that was such a fun experience! We learned about Taiwan\u2019s history, walked through different museums and souvenir shops, visited a temple where I burned incense for the first time, and stopped at at least three different \u996e\u6599 caf\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"847\" data-end=\"1059\">On Saturday, we went to the National Palace Museum, where I saw the famous white cabbage carved out of jade. I grabbed some really good boba from their caf\u00e9, and overall, it made for a great second week at HTA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be lying if I said the course load isn\u2019t overwhelming. We have homework every day, \u5c0f\u8003\u8bd5 to prepare for, and a minimum of two hours of studying daily. But I know that once I figure out an efficient way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2025\/week-2-harvard-taipei-academy-%e5%93%88%e5%8f%b0%e7%8f%ad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}