Sandy Luo, a Normes student, received an offer from Boston University's School of Communication, known as the "Whampoa Military Academy" in the U.S. media industry, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook 850,000 scholarship offer!Sandy Luo found her own direction little by little at Nuomei, dug into the major she really loved, and with the help of her teachers, she continued to work hard and finally embarked on a suitable and satisfactory university path.
In this issue, we invite Sandy Luo to share with us her feelings about life at Normey and the process of finding direction.
I found the process of learning self-motivation:
"Forced roll" - "lying flat" - "active roll".
I used to study at one of the eight prestigious universities in Pudong. Because I wanted to study abroad in college, I chose to transfer to an international school. When choosing a school, my mother and I felt that Nuomei's campus was bigger, more well-equipped, and more stable. Now it seems that my mother's consideration is very thoughtful, and Nuomei has now obtained the qualification of a private high school, and I have also gained a stable high school life.
When I first came to Nuomei, because I had good academic performance when I was in the system, I suddenly didn't have the forced "roll" in the system, so I relaxed psychologically, fantasizing that "eating the old book" was enough to cope with the study of each subject. But after about half a semester, I gradually realized that I was very dangerous, I saw that there was no shortage of excellent people around me, and if I didn't work hard, I would naturally be overtaken, and then I realized from my heart that I didn't want to be left behind, and since then I have found the internal drive to learn.
The process by which I found my bearing:
Medicine-Economics-Media
I wanted to be a doctor when I was 6 years old, and I have a strong ability to empathize with death and illness, and I want to save more lives, so I have been studying science. But as I continued to grow up, I felt that science was not what I liked and was good at, and it was the frank and unreserved analysis of myself in the liberal arts study that fascinated me, and I wrote a diary for more than ten years, and never stopped. When I was 15 years old, I started watching ** dramas, but the inertia of thinking since I was a child didn't make me think that I could go in this direction. My mother suggested that since I liked liberal arts so much, it was better to combine my mathematical advantages to turn to economics, and I participated in some competitions and won some awards, but I also felt that I was not interested. Later, through the communication with the teachers and some of my own insights, since people only live for a lifetime, they must pursue their favorites, so they firmly wanted to develop in the direction of media and drama. I am very grateful to Nuomei for giving me such a "trial and error" time cost, if I put it in the system, I may not be able to recognize myself at all.
When I applied early, I hesitated for a long time between NYU and Boston University, and my counselor suggested that Boston University would be a better fit for me based on my personality, expectations for college life, and future planning. I think Boston University not only evaluates students for their excellence, but also focuses on whether they are a good fit for the school. I write essays that highlight my personal color, I am a more assertive and goal-oriented person, and I mainly embody these two aspects in my essays. In terms of experience, I have done some drama translation, made some picture books with Chinese characteristics into podcasts for children in autism institutions, translated the prototype autobiography of ** drama, operated social ** accounts, etc., and am currently adapting a well-known movie into a stage play. The essay and these materials are probably the factors that impressed the Boston School of Communication.
Normi let me "land".
And help me "fly".
I often feel with my family and friends that I feel that I have changed a lot when I look back every six months. Perhaps the most important change was the gradual "landing" of my mentality. I studied well when I was in the system, and after coming to Norme, I was selected by Liu Bo to join her study group, which once gave me a strong sense of superiority in school. But as I deepened my studies, I found that there were many people around me who were better than me, and I gradually let myself "land" with my teachers and classmates, so that I could see myself and others correctly.
Nomi's teachers have played a big role in the change of my personality and the change in my perception of myself and the world. For example, Ms. Carol has a very good relationship with us, and the students in our class like her very much, she not only has an academic background and excellent teaching ability from Cambridge University, but also is like a gentle big sister, close to our life, and has a very charismatic personality. I wrote in a card to her on Teacher's Day: I hope I can be like you in the future. There is also the drama teacher, Ms. Crystal, I am very grateful to her, she gave me a lot of guidance professionally, and she often told me to follow my heart when we chatted. We like things very similarly, and I feel like friends with her, and I am grateful and lucky to have such a teacher who is also a teacher and a friend at Nomei.
Congratulations again to Sandy Luo for finding her direction in life. I hope that she can continue to run hard in the direction she loves in college and break out of her own world!We will continue to share more student admission cases, so stay tuned.