在杜克的学习生活
BeingaStudentatDuke
在杜克的学习生活
Being a Student at Duke
在杜克的学习生活
I wasn’t a formal student of Duke University, but luckily, I got a chance to experience how a college student’s life could be at Duke for a month.
虽然我不是美国杜克大学的正式学生，但我幸运的得到一个去杜克体验大学生活的机会。
A Brief Introduction of Duke University
杜克大学简介
Duke University, located in Durham, NC, is a private non-profit university which ranked 7th due to U.S. New & World Report National University ranking. Trinity College was the first part of the amazing school, which started in 1838 and named Trinity College in 1859. Due to the financial support by Washington Duke, and his son's request, the school changed its name to Duke University. The financial support helped Duke University to expand -- the original campus, East Campus, was rebuilt while the new campus, WestCampus, was built with Duke Chapel at its center. In addtion, if you visit Duke Chapel, you'll see the bronze statue of Washington Duke standing in front of the chapel.
位于durham，北卡罗来纳州的杜克大学是一所私立非营利大学，2014年U.S.News美国综合大学排名第7，与麻省理工学院和宾夕法尼亚大学并列。这所令人惊叹的校园最初创建于 1838年，并在1859年更名为圣三一学院。由于Washington Duke的捐献和他的儿子的请求，学校更名为杜克大学。Washington Duke的捐款帮助扩建了校园— —原来三一学院（现东校区）被重建，而新的校园（现西校区）被建成以duke chapel为中心的局面。如果您参观Duke Chapel，你会看到华盛顿公爵的铜像站在教堂前。
Walking around West Campus, you could enjoy the amazing beauty of Gothic buildings and the quietness from the woods and grasses. Squirrels are running around, chasing each other. Birds are singing on the trees. Students are walking around, talking with each other. It's different from walking in East Campus -- perhaps because I went to there in summer, when most of students were away, and in the evening -- students were back to their dorm. There weren't too many people there, and thus you could feel a sense of peace in the country side. Buildings in East Campus looked friendlier than, not as serious as, one of West Campus. Squirrel were as cute and energetic as those in West Campus, and you could see the Blue Devil on top of some buildings on both campus.
在西部校园里漫步，您可以享受的哥德式建筑的古典华美和森林草坪的静谧和谐。那些活泼可爱的松鼠活跃在绿荫之下，来回跳跃，不停追逐。鸟儿在树上歌唱。学生们走周围，彼此交谈。 不同于走在东校区— —也许因为我去那里的时候已是暑假，还是傍晚，大多数学生都已经离开了— —没有太多人在那里，因而你能感觉到一种小镇的宁静。东校区的建筑看起来比较现代，不像那么西校区那么古老庄重。这里也有可爱的松鼠，它们和那些在西校区的同类一样精力充沛。你可以看到一些建筑物顶部的青铜风标，那是杜克大学蓝魔队的标志。
Duke is also a school that has a strong background of sports. There were kids from primary/middle/high schools' sports team coming to visit and gain experience from players in Duke School team. For example, my classmates Marshall, who is one player in Duke Basketball team, gave a speech to the little visitors one night. This love of sports wasn't something that someone who knows little about sports can understand, but I really felt this excitement at that time.
杜克大学的体育也是名声卓著。在我呆在杜克的一个月间，常常看到从小学中学的校体育队来参观和交流经验。比如说，我的同学Marshall（他是杜克校队的一员）就在某天晚上给这些小朋友做了个演讲。虽然我对体育一直不怎么感冒，但也能感受到他们对运动的热爱。
Arrival & Orientation
抵达杜克和开学典礼
Duke University is located in Durham, NC, which is a beautiful city on the east coast of the US. My trip started at Shanghai. I fight to San Francisco, CA, at first, and then transfer to Raleigh/Durham, NC.
杜克大学位于达拉谟，北卡罗来纳州，那是是一个美国东海岸的美丽的城市。我从上海起飞，自旧金山转机，在将近一天的飞行后终于到达了durham机场。
The first thing I did (and had to do) was to register at the Main Office so that I could get my dorm key and (temporary) student card, which was used to buy commodities on Campus (mostly food & drink), and the university would give each student of the program $20 every day. Then I went to my dorm room to set my bedding & bags with my RA's help. RA means Resident Assistant. In the summer program, every participant had his/her own RA. RAs' mission was taking care of their resident group, not just telling them what activities were going to be organized the following day, but also doing their best to help the students with their academic problems.
第一件要做的事是在主办公室登记，然后拿到我的宿舍钥匙和（临时）学生卡。学生卡可以用来在学校便利店里买吃的和喝的。杜克会每天给每个这个暑期项目的参与者$20。在RA的帮助下，我很快完成了铺床，整理行李的事情。RA们是这个项目的管理助手。在夏天程序中，每个参与者有自己的RA。RA们的使命是照顾他的小组成员，不只生活和活动方面的组织，也有解决学生学业上的困难。Duke将一切都安排的很周到体贴,让我到达后立马就有很温暖的感觉。
There were two orientations on the first weekend. The first one was Academic orientation, which was basically about rules for our day class and evening class. For example, one must finish his/her assignment on time as well as the other college students in class. Well, did I mention that we were having classes not only with some other students from this program but also some college students at Duke University? For instance, in my class, Public Speaking, there were 6 students from this program (3 Chinese students and 3 US students) and 8 students from Duke University. Officially, we high school students were treated the same as those college students, but there are certainly some differences. My professor used to hold a party at her house one night after finishing the semester, but us high school students could not go to the party without an RA bring us there and back, thus, the party was unfortunately cancelled. The other orientation was Residence Ordination. It was about how our daily life would be during the month at Duke, along with rule we need to obey. As it might seem boring to have these orientations, there were sparkles of ideas that shook me a lot. "Education is the way that can change the world. Wars cannot be stopped (forever) by money or power. But education can make the world better and better." "I am here being a teacher because I believe in it." These things certainly are not as clear for me as when I was in the hall listening to the presentation. But I still feel being shook and moved now.
第一个周末有两个介绍会。第一个是学术介绍（开学典礼），基本上是我们早晚课程的规则。例如，按时交作业，和其他的大学生一样的要求。我有提到我们课上不仅有暑期项目的高中生参与者，也有些杜克大学的正式学生吗？例如，在我的PublicSpeaking课堂上就有六名这个项目的参与者（3中国学生和3名美国学生）和来自杜克大学的8名学生。虽然官方说法是我们的高中学生是和那些大学生进行相同的处理，但事实上却确多少有一些差异。比如，我的教授通常会在学期结束后举行一个小party，但是我们的高中学生不能去因为没有人来接送我们。当然，还有一个关于日常生活的规定介绍，就不多说了。
Public Speaking
公众演讲课
As I said, I was there to take a college course -- Public Speaking. It was a challenging and strange course for me anyway. The most (or least) difficulty was language. English for me is the second language, which means that, usually I need to translate Chinese --my language of thinking -- to English to deliver my ideas. The process of translation really slowed my speed of answering questions. Another thing I needed to overcome -- and everyone who's going to speak needs to deal with -- was the fear, the nervousness of speaking. In this course, we learnt some tips to help us fix the problem, and these tricks really helped me a lot.
我在杜克参加的课程是PublicSpeaking。从各种意义上来说，这对我都是一个新奇而充满挑战的课。最大（也许最小）的困难自然是语言关。作为English Learner我还不能做到完完全全的英语思考，也就是说，大部分时间我都需要把中文转化成英文去表达自己的想法，然后把别人所说的翻译成中文来理解。这一翻译的过程严重的加长了我的反应时间—不过根据最后同学们的反应来看，我的进步还不错。当然，另一个需要克服的问题就是对“演讲”本身的恐惧—这也是我的同学们需要克服的。在上课的过程中，我们也学到了不少缓解演讲紧张的小技巧。
I never be a person who's good at words and making friends with others. So, for me, the most fascinated time was class. We shared our experience, ideas and opinions in class. We gave comments to each other as most as we could after one gave his/her presentation. We were learning from each other, not just from the professor. I should quote one word for Prof. Byerly "You are learning from me, from your classmates, and I am learning from you too. How amazing it is!"
我以前比较内向，不是一个善于说话，交朋友的人。所以，对我来说，最有趣最兴奋的时间是上课。在课上，我们分享自己的经历和想法—我们会在某个同学的演讲之后提出自己的意见，也会乐于在演讲中说说自己的故事。我们不仅从教授那里学到了技巧，也从同学的话中知道了自己不曾想过，不曾了解过的。就像教授所说的"你们在向我学习，向同学们学习，我也在向你们学习。它是多么惊人!"
I really feel that choosing Public Speaking was the greatest decision I've even made. The primary goal for me to take part in this program was to know what "American College Life" is like. Due to the special requirement of this class, we didn't have too much difficult assignments. What we did was a few presentations, mostly done by oneself while there was one group work. The only thing that might be considered as paper work should be the final notes collection, which we needed hand it on the last Friday. For the rest time in class, we watched some TED talks, and then talked about the advantage and lack of the videos. There isn't a formula for public speaking -- everyone has his/her style. We still needed to know some "common sense", however. Due to the audience, there will be things called conventions.
选修PublicSpeaking大概是我所做的最犹豫也最明智的决定吧。我参加这个项目的主要目标是想知道"美国大学生活"是什么样子。由于这门课的特殊要求，我们没有太多的困难任务。我们所做的是几个演讲，大多是独立的，也有一个小组完成的。唯一的可能被视为书面作业应该是最后的笔记整理，deadline是最后一个星期五。在课上剩下的时间，我们观看了一些的TED演讲，然后谈论这些演讲者的优势和不足。PublicSpeaking是没有一个标准答案的— —每个人都有他的风格。而我们仍然需要知道一些"常识"。不同的观众可能会在意不同的事情，比如传统之类的，而这也就是演讲者需要注意的。
Here's some things I experienced that I think they can somehow represent "American Education":
1.Rules of class are mostly decided by the professor(s), but the professor(s) might be willing to take students' opinions into concern.
2.Think by oneself, think out of the box.
3.Classmates and Professors are come from different background, but we/they still share something in common.
4.Respect.
5.Hard Working.
6.Honesty.
At this point, I'd like to talk about my evening class a little bit. For the first week, the class was same for all students in this program -- academic writing. It was hold in order to help us in academic writing, of course. Not only because there were about half of students come out of the US, but also due to the fact that high school level writing is different from college level writing. Two things I remember clearly were academic "cheating" and word choosing. For the detail of these, in case you might interested in them, there's a course offered also by Duke University called English Composition I: Achieving Expertise. The next three weeks' evening class was College Prep., which was basically about how to choose a college, how to apply to the colleges, and how to choose a major. There's a similar online course offered by UPenn called Applying to U.S. Universities, which I strongly recommend if you don't know or still want to know more about U.S. University Application.
在学术诚实这一点上，我想稍微谈谈我晚上的课。第一周内，所有参与者的晚间课都是学术写作。它是为了帮助我们课程中所会面对的论文的而加入的。不只是因为有大约一半的学生来自美国以外的国家，但也由于高中水平写作是有别于大学水平写作的。我清楚地记得课上对学术的"作弊"和用词的两件事的强调。接下来三个星期晚课是大学准备，基本上是关于如何选择一所大学，如何申请大学，以及如何去选择一个专业。网上也有类似的--宾夕法尼亚大学的申请到美国的大学。
Activities
U.S. universities always have hundreds of activities, as we heard. Although we couldn't take part in the college students' clubs, Duke Summer College Program prepared a number of activities for us. Daily activities varied from day to day -- we had activities for sports lovers such as playing soccer/basketball/bowling or watching the World Cup; there were Campus exploring activities like visiting Nasher Art Museum or Sarah Garden; some DIY like sushi-making and dumpling-making or tattoo drew girls attention every time they appeared on the board.
总说美国大学里总是有几百项活动。虽然我们不能参加大学生的俱乐部，杜克大学暑期也为我们准备了大量的活动。日常活动多种多样— —体育爱好者可以参加打保龄球，踢足球，打篮球等活动或看世界杯；有校园的探索活动，如参观艺术博物馆或Sarah Garden；一些DIY的活动，像寿司制作和饺子或者临时纹身等。
There were also some big events -- the trip to Washington DC, local baseball game watching and American Dance Festival.
也有一些大型活动— —访问华盛顿，观看当地的棒球比赛和美国舞蹈节。
Let's talk about baseball game first. It said that last year someone did a proposal during the rest time, well, this year we just had some audiences (especially kids) playing funny games with baseball, which still interesting to see.
American Dance Festival was also interesting. It was a dance performance. 3 section in total -- the first one was a story about dogs, the second one seemed to have something to do with time and party (unfortunately, I didn't really understand it), and the third one was a story about a lord and his servants.
The most exciting one must be the trip to Washington DC. It took about 4 hours to get there and another 4 hours to go back -- only a few hour left to explore different museums and memorials. We got a ticket for the tour bus (red), which could bring us to most significant tour places. I took pictures of Capital Hill and got off at Space Museum. It was really crowded, probably due to the fact that it was Saturday. In the museum, I took a close look at how commercial plane got started and how plane post improved. Then I went to the National Mall to meet my friends -- they wanted to go shopping instead of visiting museums, so they took the bus to the "mall". However, the National Mall is not a shopping mall. I guessed they'd left to other places when I got there. I met a new group and we went to Holocaust Memorial Museum. The most impressive part was the exhibition in that museum calledRemember the Children: Daniel's Story.That was just likeAnnie's Daily, talking about how Jewish suffered during World War II -- how happy the kids' life was, how everything changed and got worse. Wasn't it a better way to talk about how scaring a war was? Not to make the crowd be angry at the country who started the war, but to realize that the hurt a war can leave and so make every adult, every child hold a heart of peace. Time ran out, so I just took some photos beside White House and then went back to the station.
最令人兴奋的一个一定去华盛顿。花了大约4个小时到达那里，另外4小时回去— —只有几个小时出发去探索不同的博物馆和纪念馆。我们得到一张票游览车（红色），能带给我们最重要的旅游场所。我在国会山拍了照片，在太空馆下车。在博物馆里，我了解了商用飞机是如何开始的，飞机邮递如何改善。然后去了国家广场，去找我的朋友们— —他们想要去购物而不参观博物馆，所以他们坐公车到"national mall"。然而，national mall不是一个购物商场。我猜他们已经去往其他地方了。我遇到了一个新的小组，我们去大屠杀纪念馆。最令人印象深刻的部分是这次展览，有一个叫做Remember the Children: Daniel's Story。就像安妮日记，是关于犹太人在第二次世界大战期间的遭遇的— —孩子们的生活曾是多么快乐，可每件事改变了，而且变得更糟。这是不是一种更好的方式来谈论令人恐惧的一场战争吗？不是或者说不仅是让人群愤怒该国人发动了战争，也是意识到战争留下的伤害，让每一位成年人，每个孩子怀有和平之心。
Talent show was on the last Friday of the program. Some students played instruments and some sang their songs. Some danced very well. For me, other than my own performance -- singing the songFar Away from Home,there were some really impressing ones. A group of boys did Gangnan Style, which at the end, lots of boys jumped on the stage to dance with them. Two boys performed "how to get a flying grape" which was really funny to see. Some Chinese boys tried to singIn My Song(我的歌声里), but…it was a good attempt anyway.
Talent Show在这个项目的最后一个星期五。一些学生演奏乐器和一些人唱起他们的歌曲。一些跳舞很好。
In addition, there were two university visit tour. I went to UNC, Chapel Hill at that time. UNC, Chapel Hill is also a high-ranked university with beautiful campus. Because it's a public university, said the RA who drove us there, there are about 80% students fromNorth Carolina State, and only about 1-2% are international students. Historically, it was the first state university in the U.S. UNC, Chapel Hill has a lot of fun story with Duke University. They has been opponent for a long time. There's even a book sold in UNC, Chapel Hill store can show this.
此外，有两个大学参观游览。我去了UNC，教堂山分校。UNC，教堂山也是一个高排名的大学，与美丽的校园。据带我们去的RA介绍，由于北卡教堂山是一所公立大学，约80%来自北卡罗莱纳州的学生和大约只有1-2%的国际学生。从历史上看，它是第一所美国的州立大学。北卡教堂山和杜克还有不少有趣的故事。
Daily Life
Duke University is surround by Duke Forest, but it has a very convenient transport system. Students can take Bus 6 or 6+ to Durham station, and take Bus 5 to South Point -- the local shopping mall. It may not be as good as Outlets, but a fan of clothes can find most s/he wants there. A book lover can go to Barnes & Noble. If you need something to decorate you house, there are enough stores for you. A movie fan can find current posting movies in the cinema. Even you are none of above, you can still enjoy various food there.
杜克大学被杜克森林环绕，但它有一个非常方便的交通系统。学生可以巴士6 +至达拉谟站并换乘巴士5到south point — —当地的购物商场。它虽然没有奥特莱斯之类的多种多样，但一个购物狂也基本可以找到大多数他想要的。图书爱好者可以去Barnes & Noble看看书喝杯咖啡。如果你需要什么东西来装饰你的房子，也有足够的商店为你服务。影迷可以找到当前热映电影。你还可以享受那里各种各样的食品。
If you live on the West Campus but don't want to go too far on weekends, Bryan Center can offer a lot things you want -- McDonald's, Panda Express (certainly not as good as Chinese food in China), Au Bon Pain, Joe Van Gogh, etc. University Store provides different kinds of clothes, stationery and there is a computer store!
如果你住在西校区，但不想在周末走得太远，Bryan中心可以提供很多东西你想要的— —麦当劳、Panda Express、Au Bon Pain、Joe Van Gogh等。大学超市里也提供不同种类的衣服，文具，计算机商店等！
Not enough? Take a campus bus to the East Campus, you just need 10-min walk to 9th Street. There are supermarket like whole food, book stores, restaurants, three or four café and even some pubs -- the one thing needed to be noticed was that you cannot use your student card there.
还不够？校园巴士去东校区，你只需要10分钟步行至第9街。有超市、书店、餐馆、三个或四个咖啡馆，甚至一些酒吧！
One can enjoy his/her life in dorm -- laundry room and vending machines are on the first floor; leave from second floor, there are a parking lot and a lawn. One can go through the woods to the Chapel in a pleasant afternoon, and get back at night with fireflies. How great life can be there!
也能在宿舍里享受他生活— —洗衣间和自动售货机在一楼；从二楼出门，有一个停车场和草坪。
也可以在一个愉快的下午后，在树林里散步到教堂，在再夜里和萤火虫一起回来……
很感谢我有幸能与大家一起分享这次在杜克的经历。。。。
