[Editor's Note] The scenery in Huiyuan in early summer is just right, and the graduation season is quietly approaching again with the feeling of reluctance. The students of Huiyuan will fly to a wider world with full wings. The Propaganda Department of the Party Committee and the Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center jointly planned a graduation season column and interviewed25An outstanding graduate. Let us listen together to the wonderful stories of the graduates.
Chen Yao: Try to achieve wonderful things
Reporter Li Yuxuan
Chen Yao，2012undergraduate student majoring in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, College of Chinese Language and Literature. Received admission notices from University College London, King's College London, University of Edinburgh, Columbia and other universities.Now admitted to Columbia University, majoring in educational technology and media. He once served as the Communist Youth League secretary and had excellent academic performance. Won second place in the "Jingwei Cup" Entrepreneurship Competition and received 50,000 yuan in innovation and entrepreneurship funds from the Ministry of Education. While in w88 casino, I went to South Korea for an internship and participated in overseas volunteer projects in Kenya. Worked at Deutsche Telekom International Consulting Company, Millward Brown Company (Millward Brown) Internship.
“垚”, describing a mountain that is high and majestic. Chen Yao's time at the University of International w88, just like her name, was spent constantly trying and challenging new heights. By changing angles, she could glimpse the different splendors of this peak of life.
Recalling his freshman year, Chen Yao admitted that he was very confused and even a little unfocused at that time, not knowing what he wanted. A year passed by unknowingly. In order to break the original living condition, she decided to try first. "If you don't take that step, you will never know what you want." In her opinion, constant trying is not about wandering around and wandering around, but about breaking through your original background and discovering your interests.
Overseas Volunteering Different experience
The overseas volunteer experience during the summer vacation of his sophomore year was an unforgettable attempt for Chen Yao. Out of curiosity about Africa and love for volunteer activities, Chen Yao chose to go to Kenya. The environment in Kenya is not as optimistic as imagined. While walking through the streets of Kenya, children and even adults would suddenly appear and directly ask volunteers for food and money.
As the team leader, Chen Yao and his team members teach in a primary w88 casino in a slum in Kenya. The last parent conference left a deep impression on these overseas volunteers. A parent of one of the students said the children needed new classrooms and food. Faced with a dark and dilapidated classroom and four children sharing a textbook, the volunteers who had finished their teaching activities had new plans. Chen Yao and her team sell postcards written by children in slums on the WeChat platform. The funds raised were used to transform an abandoned classroom into a reading room and replace the lighting equipment in primary w88 casino classrooms.
This volunteering has inspired her a lot. She bluntly said that efficiency and method of doing things are very important. When the team members came up with a plan to sell postcards, many people were immersed in their fantasy of outstanding results and refused to actually do anything. She said: "You cannot let illusions about results kill the efficiency of work." In practice, if you blindly yearn for excellent results without being down-to-earth, the pursuit of excellence will be an obstacle to the road to excellence.
Moved to business competition A gratifying harvest
In his junior year, Chen Yao, who had never studied business, tried the business competition at the invitation of his classmates, and their entrepreneurial project "Qianxun.com”(Online psychological counseling website) won the second place. "At that time, I was just thinking about starting a business and didn't pay much attention to the results of the competition." The enthusiasm and motivation of starting a business for the first time are still Chen Yao's precious memories. Behind the constantly updated proposals, exciting ideas, continuous heated discussions, and planning projects completed late at night, the entire team is still full of passion behind the heavy schoolwork.
Later, she participated in a business competition organized by the Ministry of Education. Their team entrepreneurial project "Tuotuda" eventually had pilots and campus managers at Capital University of Economics and Business, China Women's College, and China Agricultural University.
Choose Engineering Not afraid of challenges
After receiving admission notices from University College London, King's College London and Columbia University, Chen Yao finally decided to choose Columbia University. The reason is that I want to try "Educational Technology and Media", a computer-oriented major, and calm down to learn a technology.
“If you want to do it, there are countless ways to achieve it. Don’t let your background constrain your pace of breakthrough.” This major, classified as engineering in North America, was a big challenge for her as an undergraduate studying Chinese as a foreign language, but it also inspired her desire to move forward. In order to connect to subsequent courses, she is learning about computers. Using the major of educational technology to develop online teaching and solve the problem of imbalanced educational resources may be Chen Yao's next attempt.
