Finally, I went to Paris today and enjoyed it verrrryyy much
you guys maybe confused, cause I suppose to be going on exchange to Paris and why i said that this is my first time in Paris. HEC Paris is not in Paris at all. It's in Jouy-en-Josas which is located in Versailles (it's a French word, so don't worry if you don't know the meaning, and you're right, it's where the Chateau de Versailles located)
it's in Il de France province. Ile de France to Paris is something like Jabodetabek to Jakarta but the size is quite different. Ile de France is 12,012 km2 (Paris is 86.9 km2), Jabodetabek is 7,315 km2 (Jakarta itself is only 664 km2), and Singapore is 707.1 km2. So yeah, my campus to Paris is more or less like IPB to Semanggi, or NTU to Orchard Road, hehehe. around 1 hour of journey by walk, wait, train, wait, train, wait, walk (if we are quite lucky enough to have short waiting time).
Photos will be up soon (after I do my reading and doing homework of course). Meanwhile, you can have a good laugh of how I am deceived of the word Paris in HEC Paris first. Really, even though some people told me before, I never think that will be that far.
ps: some extract from Wikipedia (yup, all the data above were from Wikipedia)
Jouy-en-Josas is home to the prestigious HEC School of Management. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouy-en-Josas)
HEC is regarded as one of the most prestigious school in France
HEC is ranked first by French magazines for decades but the school has also gained international recognition. It has been ranked #1 Business School in Europe by the Financial Times of London in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. [1] :
In 2007, the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris published a "Professional Ranking of World Universities". Its main criterion is the number of chief executive officers (or equivalent) among the "500 leading worldwide companies" (Fortune Global 500). Despite its small size, HEC is ranked #7 while University of Oxford, for instance, is ranked #8 with 6 times as many students.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEC_School_of_Management)
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