u/heyheyitsandre

Context: first time in Taiwan, first time in Asia even, but have visited 30ish countries, probably 25 solo. 27M, interests are history, food, culture, vibes/nightlife, wandering around. Not too obsessed with nature, and have even seen lots of people saying that places like Sun Moon Lake and Taroko Gorge are nothing really special. With that, please critique, because I have no idea if the following itinerary looks good regarding days spent in *x* city or whatnot.

* Sunday 11/8 - land in Taipei, take express to Taipei Main Station and just get to hotel
* Monday 11/9 - Taipei - zero plans besides relax, get some food, try to get over jetlag
* Tuesday 11/10 - slow morning, do free walking tour from 228 Peace Park, go up to Taipei 101 observation deck, Elephant Mountain Hike for sunset
* Wednesday 11/11 - go to Beitou, spend day at one of the hot spring resorts, come back and hit a night market (Raohe, Shilin, Linjiang, Shida)
* Thursday 11/12 - Jiufen day trip
* Friday 11/13 - take HSR to Taichung, stay in West District
* Saturday 11/14 - take HSR to Tainan, head right to Anping area, stay near Anping
* Sunday 11/15 - Tainan, explore other areas of Tainan
* Monday 11/16 - take train to Kaohsiung
* Tuesday 11/17 - slow morning in Kaohsiung, explore more, take HSR back to Taoyuan later in the day, check into hotel in Taoyuan and get dinner near hotel
* Wednesday 11/18 - morning flight home

So all in, basically 3 days in Taipei, day trip to Jiufen, 1.5 days in Taichung, 2 days in Tainan, 1.5 days in Kaohsiung

Planning on doing the HSR trips in the morning, but likely after breakfast in city I am leaving. On one hand, it seems like a lot of travel to me but it also looks like the distances between some of these places is like 20 minutes on the HSR so it won't actually be too bad.

I am also looking for recs in any of these places on hotels, hostels, restaurants, etc. I have a solid list of attractions but am always open to hear more.

Context: first time in Taiwan, first time in Asia even, but have visited 30ish countries, probably 25 solo. 27M, interests are history, food, culture, vibes/nightlife, wandering around. Not too obsessed with nature, and have even seen lots of people saying that places like Sun Moon Lake and Taroko Gorge are nothing really special. With that, please critique, because I have no idea if the following itinerary looks good regarding days spent in x city or whatnot.

• Sunday 11/8 - land in Taipei, take express to Taipei Main Station and just get to hotel
• Monday 11/9 - Taipei - zero plans besides relax, get some food, try to get over jetlag
• Tuesday 11/10 - slow morning, do free walking tour from 228 Peace Park, go up to Taipei 101 observation deck, Elephant Mountain Hike for sunset
• Wednesday 11/11 - go to Beitou, spend day at one of the hot spring resorts, come back and hit a night market (Raohe, Shilin, Linjiang, Shida)
• Thursday 11/12 - Jiufen day trip
• Friday 11/13 - take HSR to Taichung, stay in West District
• Saturday 11/14 - take HSR to Tainan, head right to Anping area, stay near Anping
• Sunday 11/15 - Tainan, explore other areas of Tainan
• Monday 11/16 - take train to Kaohsiung
• Tuesday 11/17 - slow morning in Kaohsiung, explore more, take HSR back to Taoyuan later in the day, check into hotel in Taoyuan and get dinner near hotel
• Wednesday 11/18 - morning flight home

So all in, basically 3 days in Taipei, day trip to Jiufen, 1.5 days in Taichung, 2 days in Tainan, 1.5 days in Kaohsiung

Planning on doing the HSR trips in the morning, but likely after breakfast in city I am leaving. On one hand, it seems like a lot of travel to me but it also looks like the distances between some of these places is like 20 minutes on the HSR so it won't actually be too bad.

I am also looking for recs in any of these places on hotels, hostels, restaurants, etc. I have a solid list of attractions but am always open to hear more.

Hello, hoping someone here can help. I’m looking at two flight options: one with a 42 minute layover and another with a 4hr 20 minute layover. Both flights would be purchased as a single purchase from delta, so they must assume I’d be able to make the layover, and I’m not worried about compensation if the first flight was delayed or something, I’d just much rather be on the actual flight so as to not waste my PTO and miss a day of my trip. It is a domestic connection from DTW and then an international connection leaving to Taipei. Is 42 minutes doable? Or would you recommend the safe 4hr layover. Thank you!

Context: 27 years old, work full time, degree in marketing from a Miami university farmer school of business but I had a sub 3.0 GPA. However that is almost entirely from brutally tanking my first 2 years of pre-reqs and classes outside the business school. In the marketing program specifically I had over a 3.5. Going to do this completely online (ideally asynchronous) as I don’t want to stop working or attend night classes.

Unofficial score: 585
I don’t recall each sections exact scores, but the percentiles were:

- data: 83rd
- quant: 26th
- verbal: 83rd

Is it worth it to try and grind the quant and retake the exam? What would my score look like if I got up to even 50th percentile? I am so horrible at all things math, I genuinely didn’t even know where to begin on some of these questions. Guessed on probably 20 of them.

Is it worth the time and money to try and improve this if I’m planning on just doing online asynchronous from probably whatever state school I decide on that’s under $40-50k?

Or if that is the plan, should I just roll with the 585?