本期节目我们有幸采访到的是目前就读于美国康奈尔大学主修Government 和 Mathematics的留学生杨思羽，她将与我们分享她的留美经历，包括出国申请、语言测试、文化差异以及在美国的小故事等，她还展示了她的配音技能哦！还在等什么呢？一起来领略一下常青藤名校生的风采吧！
思羽: Thank you, thank you for inviting me. I&`&m from Taiyuan Shanxi. And so far I spent 3 years in Cornell University, which is in east coast of United States.
思羽: Well, definitely not. So say if you are a high school student and you want to be admitted to a US university as an undergraduate. If you’re an international student, there are two tests you have to prepare yourself for. The first is TOEFL, and the second one is SAT. So basically TOEFL is a language test and SAT is basically the 高考for US student. But there are two SATs the first one is basically about we say it&`&s an IQ test because you don&`&t really have to study for it you just prepare yourself for the English language and go to take the test. It&`&s basically a lot of reading a lot of logic problems and some really easy math problems. And the second one is SAT 2 which is more academic. You choose from a whole a lot of SAT 2 courses and you submitted 3 grades in general. I chose mathematics physics and chemistry but you can also do bio you can also do a language. It&`&s basically the academic 高考 for the US student. And after you take all of the each tests there are of a bunch of other things you have to do. First of all you have to prepare a personal statement, which is like a really really long essay about yourself. We call it like a love letter to the US college saying “oh my god, I&`&m like so awesome and look at such an awesome person I am and it would be so stupid for you to not admit me. So basically I did pretty well in both TOEFL and the SATs. And if there something I didn&`&t do well I think I wrote a horrible personal statement. There was a whole bunch of grammatic mistakes and looking back 3 years later. I don&`&t know. I want to shoot myself. It is a really bad essay. But really fortunately Cornell still admitted me despite been rejected by all the other Ivy Leagues. I still very happy and I&`&m… Cornell is a good school. I&`&m satisfied
思羽: Well, definitely is a culture shock. Basically I remember the first night in my freshman year, every single person in my dorm went to party and I am the only person in my suite who was not partying and I was really sad. But everything got better. I made a lot of friends both Chinese, American, and Korean people. And I think I became more open-minded after I spend one year in United States. In terms of Cornell, I feel like Cornell lied to me when they try to get me to apply because they say "oh Cornell is in Ithaca, which is between 3 national parks. it&`&s such a beautiful place." In the end, it was actually 4 hours away from the nearest city. It&`&s very cold. It snows 10 month every single year. The other side of story is people such like atrocity environment. People get really close to each other and Cornell became like a really good community. Well, you have to hang out with your friends school because there is nobody else can hang out with. We became a really tight community and everybody become really close to each other.
So the first thing that I found unexpected when I came to the United States that Cornell is in the middle of nowhere. Imagine like a really prestigious university in the middle of 内蒙古大草原. Just bad.. like I was 4 hours bus ride to the nearest airport and there is absolutely no malls there was no nothing around our region. The climate was ok. It was ok in the first place because it was summer when I first landed but after one month. In October start to f**king snow. And it was snowing lot for 10 month straight and the last snow that we got was in May. It was really bad really cold. It has a beautiful summer but everything else is pretty bad.
The people. Cornell people are general really nice but very over achieving. A lot of people start to plan for their career even the first day in their freshman year. They spend a lot time doing work and they join a lot of clubs, trying to build up their resume. Just a lot of stuff. They do a lot of stuff try to get themselves to a good job.
Food. I think Cornell has one of the best cafeterias in the country. All the cafeterias are in buffet style. You never get tired of it.
Yeah I mean I love Cornell. Everything is pretty good. Cornell is very academically challenging a lot of professors are very bitchy about grade So yeah! Cornell is awesome! I love it.
思羽: In Cornell, I do a double major in government and mathematics and I have a minor in business.
思羽: I think it&`&s pretty general for Cornell students you have more than one major. I think the more popular combination is a lot of people do economic major and was like politics or was mathematic major and economics that is some of the most popular combinations… or government and history. For me, I&`&ll say that I did a horrible job in terms of planning my college life because going to Cornell I really want to be a math major and I want to study math. And I took a lot of math classes. But during sophomore year, I took one really interesting class called Introduction to International Relations. The professor is really good. He is one of the most prestigious international affair scholars out there. And he influenced with me a lot and for that class I find my passion in government and political sciences especially international relations. From that I figure doing government major also be a good idea.
And for the business minor, because everybody is doing the business minor it&`&s for the job. It will be a lot of year for you get a job if you are taking financial accounting. It&`&s just general.
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