KOREAN SPRING

This is obviously not based on science or proven through experiments of any sort. It's just that I tend to fall victim to the hiccups much more often than the average person for some bizarre reason. To be honest, I haven't really tried all the popular remedies like drinking water upside down or drinking sugar water or doing the elephant thing and spinning around (is this just a Korean thing?) or getting someone to scare you; because I learned once in middle school that hiccups are actually spasms of the diaphragm, the muscle we use to breathe. So just rest the diaphragm for a while, right? My mom's remedy was to just stop breathing for as long as possible, which seemed like the best option according to my layman theory. But rather than just simply not breathing, I usually held my nose and and blew with my mouth closed until my ears popped, the thing you do on airplanes, because I just thought that would work better - it didn't work all the time but it just became a habi

Just last week while I was chatting with a Chinese friend for language exchange, I came across the idea that maybe I could continue my undergrad education in China. It was a sudden stroke of inspiration that came about thanks to this friend's casual, almost-jokingly-mentioned suggestion, but the more I think about it the more it seems so right. The tuition is much less expensive, there are plenty of schools with linguistics programs (more than Korea anyway) and English-taught courses, admissions are relatively easier for international students, I could apply for scholarships more easily than NY, it's only about 2 hours away from Seoul by plane, and I could pick up Chinese a lot more quickly. I could finally fulfill my dream of completing my education, or at least continuing with it, something that would make me a lot happier than being stuck in an office all day (not that I actually hate my current job). Anyway, so I'm googling a bunch of schools in China, and looking thr