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My name is Sherri Wangwang, born in the 00s, I am a Chinese national, but I grew up in Japan.

When I was a child, my parents worked in Japan, so I went to Japan to study elementary and junior high school. Before I graduated from junior high school, my mother did not approve of the Japanese education model and sent me back to China to study in an international school.

But not long after returning to China, I started dating online. After my mother found out, she took extreme measures, confiscated my mobile phone, and chatted with the other party in my name, causing me to fall out of love.

Not to mention falling out of love, I was still looked down upon, and some people said that I would never be admitted to the University of California, Berkeley in my life.

Hearing this, I became an Angry Bird, and I had to prove that I could. So, I started the learning Xi mode of "head cantilever beam, taper thorn strand".

After years of hard work, I succeeded, walked into that university, and got a boyfriend, but it wasn't my first love.

at the University of California, Berkeley, 2022).

I was born in Sichuan, the eldest of my family, and I have a younger sister. Before I was four years old, I grew up with my grandparents in my hometown, and then I went to Tokyo, Japan with my parents.

At that time, my father worked for a Japanese company, and my mother took care of us at home.

In Japan, I finished kindergarten and elementary school. Unlike in China, kindergarten children play with mud and raise small animals every day.

The primary school also pursues a happy education, there is no parent group, parents do not need to correct their children's homework, and even when they hold a parent-teacher meeting, they do not talk about their children's Xi.

However, the school attaches great importance to the cultivation of students' personal qualities, for example, from the first grade of primary school, students have to walk to school by themselves, and no matter how heavy the schoolbag is, they must carry it by themselves.

The curriculum design of the school is also different, the first grade students have to raise plants and observe their growth process, the third and fourth grades raise fish and observe the breeding process, and the fifth and sixth grades do experiments and write simple reports. In addition, there are various activities such as spring outings and autumn outings.

2005 Kindergarten Graduation Ceremony).

The happy education in primary school has made me a person with strong hands-on ability.

However, my mother felt that Japan's happy education was unreliable, and she was always worried that I would not be able to keep up with my Xi, so she sent me to a remedial Xi class during the holidays, studying Xi 12 hours a day, and asked me to do math problems beyond my ability, and if I couldn't do it, I would be beaten.

When I was 12 years old, my mother brought me back to China and enrolled in an international school in Shenzhen.

When I was in Japan, most girls' dreams were to grow up to marry a rich man, raise a husband and children, and become a full-time wife.

I've listened to it a lot, and I think so myself. The same is true in Japan, where women are not allowed to go out to work after marriage, and they don't know what else they can do other than stay-at-home wives.

After coming to the international school, I came into contact with people from various countries, and I realized that people can have many dreams, such as being a painter, a translator, a beauty makeup, a director, and so on.

International school not only made me aware of my own narrow-mindedness, but also opened up a diverse world and gave me a deeper understanding of Japanese culture.

2006 Elementary School Opening Ceremony).

The Japanese are very rigid and have to follow one, two, three, or four steps, even if there is a better way, but they pay attention to details and strive for excellence.

Japanese people have a strong sense of community, and assertive students are not popular at all. As soon as one person expresses a different opinion, the whole class will fall into peace, even the teacher will remain silent.

The Japanese don't want to cause trouble to others. During class, if someone fails to bring a textbook many times, bow and apologize to the whole class. As long as one classmate has a bad attitude or does something wrong, the whole class will be punished.

Japanese people are still very xenophobic, especially children, and when I was in elementary school, I was often scolded: "Go back to China". I complained to the homeroom teacher, but he didn't help me until I met a kind Japanese classmate, and he took me to the homeroom teacher to theorize, and the teacher stepped in to take care of the matter.

Speaking of which, I am glad that I returned to China and received a Chinese education.

When I returned to China, I began to rebel and met love. At that time, I was just 14 years old, and I was chatting online about a 19-year-old senior who was attending college at the University of California, Berkeley, and the senior liked me and began to pursue me.

2006 primary school group photo).

I also admire this senior, after all, he is a college student from a prestigious school.

Just when we were you and me, I was discovered by my mother. Early love is like a flood in the eyes of my parents, and it must be stifled, so my mother confiscated my mobile phone.

Since then, my mobile phone has never entered my bedroom, and my mother has read all the daily messages on my phone and the chat history with my seniors.

My mom snooped on my privacy, but she sent messages to the other party in my name, and then deleted the information, pretending that it didn't happen.

But my wx logged into the computer at the same time, and when I saw it on the computer, I was so angry that my secret was naked.

Because my mother sent messy messages, my senior finally broke up with me. When we broke up, his friend said to me: "You will never be able to get into the Berkeley University of your dreams." ”

In 2015, the international school won the Learner Award and took a group photo with the teachers).

That man's words ignited my fighting spirit, and I vowed to be admitted to the University of California, Berkeley, even if it was difficult, I would fight for myself and prove that person wrong, even though I was still a scumbag at the time.

Since then, I can't say that I can't say that the head cantilever cone piercing the strand, but I tried my best to catch up. In 2015, he won the Learner Award, which is a very important award for the school.

While working hard to learn Xi, I used social practice to constantly enrich my resume. In 2016, when I was a sophomore in high school, I went to Cambodia to participate in social practice.

Our task was to build a house for a single mother and son in their twenties with their 5-year-old son, who had no income and no house.

At that time, the house was allowed to be built only in a very dirty and messy place. We collect the wood, cut it to the right size, and build it little by little under the guidance of the locals.

The expressions of single mothers and children when they saw the house were full of joy, and their eyes were shining, which made it difficult for people to forget for a lifetime.

In 2016, he volunteered to build a house in Cambodia).

Although it was only a simple wooden house, it was already a precious gift for them, because they would never wander again.

The single mother said that she gave birth to the child at the age of 17, and the father of the child was irresponsible, and the child ran away after giving birth. She sets up a stall outside during the day and wanders around with her children at night.

There are many such cases in Cambodia, where girls start working at the age of fourteen or fifteen, some in massage parlors, some selling clothes. These meager incomes are only enough to feed the girls' stomachs, and there is no money to build houses. Because the cost of building a house in Cambodia is a huge amount of money that their whole family can't earn by working for a lifetime.

Cambodia is a traditional agricultural country with a weak industrial base, relying on foreign aid and foreign investment, and the poor population accounts for about 17 percent of the total population8%。Cambodia's tropical climate has also made these poor families who have no fixed place to live for generations Xi wandering around and being at peace with their encounters.

In 2016, I did fish therapy with my friends in Cambodia).

When I saw this, I realized that there are still people living in this environment in this world, and I also cherished life more and complained less about life.

After that, I also went to Thailand, Indonesia, and Guangxi to teach.

When I was 16 years old, I had the idea of going to the United States for summer school. Summer school, also known as summer program, is a kind of summer study tour that takes place from late June to the end of August every summer.

If you want to go to college in the United States, you should first go to summer school to fully experience the American education, which will be of great help to students to apply for college.

Because I wanted to go to Berkeley, I applied to Harvard Summer School. Because of the high score of 108 in the TOEFL test, I was successfully admitted to Harvard Summer School in the United States.

In the summer of 2016, I went to the United States for the first time, and for the first time I took a plane alone, applied for ** cards, bank cards, went to the supermarket, took the subway, and made friends. After going abroad, I relied on myself for everything, which also made me more independent.

Harvard cafeteria in 2016).

I took two courses, Food Psychology and Chemistry.

Food psychology is based on brain science and neurology to explore the emotions behind people's food needs. For example, people are in a good mood and want to eat sweets;I'm in a bad mood and want to eat bitter food.

Chemistry is more interesting, before in international schools are all theoretical classes, no experiments have been done, in Harvard, the professor in the class to light a fire, engage in **, and make ice cream, the whole class is very lively, we are also interested in learning.

Harvard has a strong Xi atmosphere, and many Harvard students love to learn Xi which comes from intrinsic motivation, they are full of curiosity and want to learn something well, not to Xi learn it for exams.

Even if you are studying in summer school, under the influence of this atmosphere, everyone is strict with themselves according to the standards of undergraduates.

I'm basically weekly.

2. Soak in the laboratory on Thursday to do experiments, go to bed at three or four o'clock in the evening, and go to class at eight o'clock in the morning, and sleep almost four or five hours a day.

2016 Harvard chemistry class experiments).

This experience at Harvard Summer School taught me that only a true love for knowledge can learn very well and internalize it.

Returning to the International School from Harvard Summer School, I was even more determined to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

I kept rolling myself in Xi, studying TOEFL, studying SAT, and the school's GP was maintained to 40. Also actively participate in sports competitions and extracurricular activities.

During this period, for the first time, I organized my own charity event: 30 hours of famine, which challenged 30 hours of not eating, and this activity raised 260745 USD (18,000 RMB).

The money was donated to World Vision to help those in need, and World Vision issued me a certificate of donation.

In order to pursue a dream that was hidden in my heart, I only applied to the University of Berkeley, and I had the feeling that "the wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return". is to gamble, so that you are invisibly forcing yourself to a dead end.

In 2017, I challenged a public welfare activity in high school to skip meals for 30 hours).

The effort paid off, because of my excellent academic Xi performance, and extremely rich social practice, and I am a Chinese national, a permanent resident of Japan, and a diverse background with different experiences living in two countries, these became the highlights of my application, and in the end, I was admitted.

When I got an offer from UC Berkeley, I thought back to how hard it had been to come. But I especially want to thank the person who hit me once, and if it wasn't for him, maybe my life would have been rewritten.

But since this incident, my trust in my mother has almost disappeared.

In 2018, it was with joy that I flew to Berkeley, the long-dreamed campus.

It's a pity that I only enjoyed a year of studying abroad, and in December 2019, I returned home after the school Christmas holiday, and the epidemic that swept the world came. The school informed all students of online classes, and I stayed in the country.

At first, I thought that online classes would be a short thing, but I didn't expect it to last for two years. During these two years, I went to the company to Xi during the day, and took online classes and exams at night.

Received an offer from Berkeley in July 2018).

In my sophomore year, I did Xi at a 360 company doing cybersecurity, working as a Xi programmer for code farmers. The junior year was Xi in the ** company in Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

In 2021, when the pandemic eased, I returned to Berkeley, where I had been dreaming about for a long time.

Berkeley also has a lot of very interesting courses, such as time management, or money management. There is also a super diverse club activity, with more than 1,200 clubs here. From the hard-core artificial intelligence club, the investment banking club, to the club that pets the dog every day, there are all kinds of things!

However, many hardcore clubs need to write 1000 words **, and then interview for several rounds before letting in, and the acceptance rate of the paper is lower than that of the university.

At Berkeley, students can't help but try to become a better version of themselves, and students are waiting outside the library to open, and some even stay up all night to study Xi.

Here, initiative is the most important ability, initiative is the opportunity, initiative is the resource, professors and teaching assistants are very willing to help students, provided that they take the initiative to contact them.

2022 at the University of Berkeley).

Here, I learned to be proactive, to be disciplined, to manage time and money.

I met my boyfriend in college through social networking software, and he studied Xi math and computer science at Cornell University.

My boyfriend is from Zhejiang, his character is very good, he is younger than me, his height is taller than me, he is 1.90 meters, and I am barely 1.60 meters.

One of the things that attracted me to him was that he and I had a completely different background, and he came to the United States with an exam education to take the college entrance examination.

My boyfriend is smarter, I have always liked to study Xi smarter boys, and in his sophomore year, he actually knew how to do math and CS statistics in his senior year and graduate school.

With him, I felt like my IQ was crushed, and what it took me two hours to understand, he would have watched it in three minutes.

But he doesn't dislike me for being stupid. No matter how many questions I asked him, how many times he explained to me that I didn't understand, he was very patient and encouraged me to praise me for being smart when I finally understood.

2022 at the University of Berkeley).

We also like to encourage each other to make money, like to spend money but never buy luxury goods, like travel and food, and stayed in more than 50 hotels last year.

He is very considerate and responsible. Many boys are the same when they chase girls, and they are the same together, but he hasn't changed at all and is getting better and better.

He likes to go to street stalls, I like to go to beautiful restaurants, he will be very happy to accompany me to restaurants with atmosphere, and I will accompany him to eat street stalls, and I feel more fragrant when I eat with him.

Although we have different Xi habits and hobbies, it doesn't matter, we understand each other, appreciate each other, encourage each other, tolerate each other, and as long as we are together, we are very happy.

In 2022, after graduating from college, I worked at a startup in Silicon Valley, USA, my boyfriend is still studying, and I will choose to stay in the United States after graduation in the future.

We will all strive for the life we want in the future, and I think the best state for two people together is to get richer and better!

Just like Sa Beining said: If you decide to be splendid, the mountains are unobstructed, and the sea is unobstructed!

Dictation: Sherri Wang].

Editor: Feng He].

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