How it works

1. An announcement or a PDF arrives, in Chinese.
2. Even once the words are translated, the deadline, the documents and the counter are on three other sites.
3. Then you ask a classmate or the international office to piece the rest together.
4. So we wrote that path down as a system.

簡報第 3 頁另列：一年增加 15,586 人。以下為 v21 引用的 114 學年度與調查資料。

140,417international students, broadly defined, in the 2025–26 academic year

The three difficulties one survey ranked highest:

• Cost of living43.4%
• Communicating in Chinese41.9%
• Academic adjustment41.6%

4,691 valid survey responses

• A student checks eligibility, the deadline, the documents and the right counter separately.
• One errand is spread across a campus page, a PDF, a form and something somebody said.
• The international office answers and re-routes the same question over and over.
• What is missing is a system that threads the fragments into one task.

Verified on

The date a person last checked this page, and when it is due to be read again.

Risk level

Whether getting it wrong affects your status or your entitlements — marked in words and in shape, never colour alone.

Cited official sources

Every claim links to the official page it came from, so you can open it and check for yourself.

Estimated time

Knowing how long it takes is what lets you fit it into a day.

Step by step

What to bring, where to go and what comes next, written one step at a time.

Reach a person

When the page cannot settle it, the 1990 hotline and your university's international office are right there.

That is the difference from a translator or a chatbot: the information is wired to finishing the task, not to explaining the words.

The public page shows the pattern common to every campus. Your own school's deadlines and counters appear on your checklist once that school publishes them through the admin console.

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Stack

React 19 · TypeScript · Cloudflare Worker · D1

Content

16 life tasks, 16 of them carrying a source list and a verification date, plus 16 practice scenarios, citing 38 source pages in total.

Tests

27 product tests, alongside linting and a production build, all run in continuous integration.

Capabilities

• Sign-in and roles
• Source import
• Content review
• Publish and withdraw
• Progress and saved tasks
• Error reports
• Audit trail

The management features listed above are implemented. The public site serves the task content and a local checklist; it opens neither sign-in nor the admin console.

• 22schools with more than two thousand international students
• 70,821international students at those schools
• 50.4%of all international students in Taiwan

1. Start with the life tasks one campus's international students run most often.
2. Connect the school's own sources, its content owner and its update process.
3. For the next school, keep the system and swap the official sources and rules.

Who does what

• Our international-student member: names the real breaks in the information.
• Product and UX: turns those into a flow and an interface.
• AI and systems: builds the source import, the data structures, the site and the database.
• Source governance and school liaison: keeps the content being updated.

Ways in

1. NowThe student website and the school's admin console.
2. NextA Chrome extension that adds a task to your list while you are reading the campus page.
3. After thatA phone app for reminders and for checking progress anywhere.

Every way in shares the same task data, the same sources and the same completion state.

Scattered information, turned into tasks an international student can actually finish.

Browse every taskOpen my checklistGo to the live sitesurvivalintaiwan.com（opens in a new window）