Hi! I’m Karen Xu, a third-year triple major at UC Davis in Economics, English, and Chinese. I studied abroad for a full year at Peking University in China through UCEAP, in 2014-2015. This is a long-overdue blog post for future departees, summarizing a few things that I would want to go back to tell myself if I could! Maybe it’ll help someone someday. I hope. Also, everything that I say applies mostly to mainland China, but hey, some lessons can be applied everywhere…