If you have a home virtual private networking service setup, or if you have access to a company virtual private networking service, why not just connect to your VPN? Problem is solved, connection is encrypted, and without the potential of tunnel hell or application incompatibility of port forwarding and tunneling.

Having said that, the censors at China are not that concerned of English offending content; it's more that they're worried about the uneducated public being incited by content online since content is so easily spread via the Internet, at the same time, it is also easy to organize protests online. If you already know English or you've been educated overseas, you're no longer someone they are targeting.

You raise a very good point about chicks, but the end of lecture halls is the end of an avenue of socializing. Don't get me wrong: a lot of smart people have social intelligence, but to take away a lecture hall experience is to some extent the closing of an avenue of meeting new people. Smart people, more often than not, lack in their abilities to socialize due to a huge prioritization of time spent on stuff that matters to them. Social intelligence is not logical, which is why many geeks suffer in social environments.

It's actually extremely nutritious. Chinese people sell these snacks all over the place.

I'm a little bit dubious. The 3G used in T-Mobile USA operates on an odd band that only T-Mobile USA uses. Most of the world operate on the standard bands, so it's still difficult to say if this is an apples to apples test. The iPhone is compatible with most of the GSM/UMTS networks around the world, while the T-Mobile phone 3G features are more likely to only function in the US. Somebody needs to investigate this.