2020届毕业生Mora Shen 喜获约翰斯·霍普金斯大学 生物医药工程专业与 硕士直升项目双录取 Grade 12 student admitted to Johns Hopkins University! 2020年USNEWS世界大学排名 世界第11位，美国第10位； 全美排名第一生物医药工程专业； 全美排名第一公共卫生学院直升硕士项目； 2020 USNEWS World University Rankings: - 11th in the world and 10th in the United States; - Ranked # 1 in Biomedical Engineering in the United States; - Ranked # 1 combined Bachelor/Master program in Public Health in the United States 约翰霍普金斯大学简称JHU，有着全球最顶级的医学院，其BME（Biomedical Engineering 生物医药工程）专业更是位列全美榜首。该专业每年全球限招120人，录取率低至2%，难度超越哈耶普。只有被录取进JHU且第一专业为BME，申请者的材料才能被递送至BME招生处审核。通过审核后，会收到JHU和BME的两封录取通知。 Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has the world's top medical school, and its BME (Biomedical Engineering) major is ranked the first in the United States. The program, which has a global enrollment limit of 120 students a year, has an acceptance rate as low as 2%, making it harder to get in than schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton. When applying for the BME program, the student's application endures three rounds of scrutiny, and approval from all three admissions bodies, including JHU itself and the BME school. WHY Biomedical Engineering? 我最早对生物学产生兴趣是在初中看了《生化危机》和《阿凡达》这两部电影之后。在《生化危机》中出现的生物病毒和在《阿凡达》中人类通过一种特殊的细胞信号转导用意识控制动物都让我觉得非常不可思议。这一切都可能实现吗？为了找到答案，我开始了对生物学领域的探索。学到的越多，越体会到大自然的奇妙。自然将各种生物巧妙的连接在一起，每种生物在生态系统中都扮演着不同的角色，环环相扣。 I first became interested in biology when I was in middle school, right after I watched the blockbusters Resident Evil and Avatar. I was astonished by the influence of biological viruses in Resident Evil and how animals in Avatar could be controlled by the human mind simply through telepathic cellular signaling. I wondered if all these were really possible in the real world. Therefore, such curiosity triggered me to search for more answers in the world of biology. Gradually, the more I learned about biology, the more intrigued I became. I found that all living organisms are amazingly interwoven with one another, as each plays a unique role in the grand ecosystem. 生物医药工程学是一门边缘交叉学科，综合了生物、医学以及工程学。以生物学的理论和技术为基础结合工程技术，这门学科可以在多重领域让人类收益。相信大家一定都听说过3D打印机吧。但大家是否知道，如今的3D打印技术可用来移植器官，利用工程技术来操纵遗传物质，从而破坏致病基因呢？多么的不可思议！这门交叉学科在人类疾病的诊断、治疗与预测上举足轻重的地位让我义无反顾的选择了它。 Biomedical engineering is an interdisciplinary subject that incorporates biology, medicine and engineering. Equipped with various bio-tech theories and techniques, the application of biomedical engineering can benefit human life in a wide array of aspects. Take, for example, 3D printing. It is amazing that today’s 3D printing technology can be used to transplant human organs and even modify genetic materials in order to remove pathogenic genes. It has become evident that biomedical engineering can play a crucial role in the diagnosis, treatment and prediction of diseases, all of which, I believe, are incredibly important for human health. And this is the reason why I resolutely opted for BME as my major. WHY Johns Hopkins University? 从十年级起我就开始为大学申请做准备，列出拥有我理想专业的大学名单。排在医药工程专业第一位的是一所我从未听闻的学校：约翰霍普金斯大学。是什么让这所“名不见经传”的大学超越了我们所熟知的各所名校排列第一呢？我的探索精神彻底被激发，立即上网搜寻各类关于这所学校的信息。我不敢相信如此理想的学校在现实中真实存在！学校拥有37位获诺贝尔奖的教授。对独立做研究的学生，学校给予充足的研究资金和参与各项研究项目的机会。学校位于美国东部，距离华盛顿DC仅一小时车程，同时又远离市区，给我一个安静的学习环境。但比起这些最让我心动的是高中生可以申请约翰霍普金斯大学本硕连读的项目。只要在本科阶段达到学校规定的GPA标准，在几门规定课程中获得B以上的成绩并拥有义工和各类研究经历，学生就可以直接进入美国排名第一的公共卫生学院学习公共卫生管理学硕士专业，进修全球疾病流行病学，卫生系统，营养，以及社会和行为干预学等。 I've been preparing for university applications since Grade 10, and made a list of universities which were offering my dream major, BME. At the top of that list was a school I had never heard of: Johns Hopkins University. I wondered what made this not so well known university to be at the top of the list. Curiously, I immediately started to search for more information about this university. Suffice to say, I was really amazed by what I found out! It turned out that there have been 37 Nobel prize-winning professors in Johns Hopkins. And for students doing independent research, the university provides them with ample funding and opportunities to participate in various research projects. Further, the fact that it is located in the suburban area of east US is also conducive to a nice and quiet learning environment for me. Apart from all that, what interested me the most was the combined Bachelor & Master Program in this top ranking university of public health, which allows its postgraduate students to directly proceed into a Master degree in Global Health Studies, as long as they have attained target GPA and enough experience in social voluntary work and academic research. Pertinent areas of the study may involve global disease epidemiology, health systems, nutrition, and social & behavioral interventions, etc. 在美高的四年间我参加了学校组织的各种与生物相关的课外考察或义工活动。九年级结束后的暑假，我参加了一个云南白马雪山自然保护区的科考项目：观察旅游业发展对非人灵长类动物的影响。我选择的代表样本是滇金丝猴。我的任务是每天长时间观察滇金丝猴的行为模式，研究人类的投食行为对滇金丝猴利手行为的影响。利手指的是在日常生活、工作、学习和劳动活动中惯用或善用的那只手。灵长类的利手行为与它们的个体大脑发育和环境有关。通过研究滇金丝猴利手行为的变化可以让我们有效的认识到人类对自然生物的影响。通过研究我发现，人的交谈声，拍照的闪光灯和投食会导致滇金丝猴利手行为的改变，导致它们变得更加暴躁。滇金丝猴在中国已被列为濒危动物，数量稀少。规划自然保护区是为了保护园区内的动物，让它们免受人类残害，但是无节制的旅游业发展以及人类对动物生活习性认识的缺乏间接导致了各种生物的生活习惯被打乱，甚至影响了它们繁育后代。这让我意识到人类在保护动物，保护环境，保护地球上需要做的还很多很多，这也是我所需要刻苦钻研、学习的领域。 During my high school years at SUIS Wanyuan, I was fortunate to attend many biology-themed field trips and social activities. In a summer vacation of Grade 9, I participated in a scientific expedition at the natural reserve of Baima Snow Mountain in Yunnan province, where we were to observe and determine the influence of tourism development on the local primate animals. The research target I chose was Yunnan snub-nosed monkey. For several days, I observed the behavior of the monkeys and studied the effects of human feeding on their unilateral behavior, which refers to their inclination to use one preferred hand over the other in their daily life. Research suggests that the unilateral behavior of primates is not only related to their brain development, but also to their surrounding atmosphere. And studying the changes in unilateral behavior in Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is therefore an effective way to understand the influence of human activities on nature. As for the result of this study, we found out that activities such as human chatter, camera flashes and the act of feeding can all affect and change the monkeys’ unilateral behavior, and even make them more irritable. Having done this research, I gained a more profound understanding of the connection between man and nature. As many know, Yunnan snub-nosed monkey is an endangered species in China. And the initial purpose of establishing the natural reserve is to protect these monkeys from outside threats. Nevertheless, the constant expansion of tourism and human’s lack of knowledge in animal protection are now proving to be harshly detrimental to these endangered species. This experience made me realize that we still have a lot to do and to learn in terms of protecting the animals, the environment and the earth. This is also why I became really determined to study more about biology. 从十年级起我参加了社区服务社，在学校老师的组织带领下定期前往儿科医院做志愿者，给那些被病痛折磨的孩子们带去关爱 。陪他们做手工，分享身边的趣事，在他们打点滴的时候捂住他们的眼睛安慰他们。看到孩子们因为我的陪伴展开笑颜我感到自己也被治愈了。就算自己心情不好，看着小朋友们把折好的玫瑰花送给我，天真的扮演小公主、小王子的时候，我的所有烦恼都被一扫而空，只留下暖暖的满足感。我在心中暗暗下定决心，以后一定要努力学习生物医药知识，让孩子们脸上的笑容不再被病痛的阴影覆盖。 Since Grade 10, I have joined the school’s community service group. Led by teachers, I routinely visited a local pediatric hospital as a volunteer, to provide love and care to children who were suffering from diseases. I tried to do handicraft with them, share happy stories with them, or give them consolation when they felt scared. It was also quite heartwarming to see them happy in my company. And when I was in a bad mood, I would be completely uplifted again after they folded lovely paper roses for me or simply played games with me. It was in those moments that I secretly made up my mind to study biological medicine as my vocation, so that hopefully one day, the smile on those children’s face will no longer be obscured by of the mask of disease. 感谢协和，让我在学习中找到了自己的兴趣所在，并通过给予我这么多的机会和平台让我进一步的肯定了自己的选择，在兴趣范围内尽情的探索，发掘自己的潜力。收到约翰霍普金斯大学生物医学工程专业的录取并成功保研公共卫生管理硕士我感到激动万分。感谢学校，所有的老师和支持我的人。大学申请很艰难，但一切的努力终有回报。春天的美好取决于每个人过冬的方式。希望每位同学都能等来属于自己的春暖花开！ Lastly, I would like express my deepest gratitude to SUIS for giving me so many opportunities to explore my interests and my potential. I’d also like to thank all the people who had cared for and supported me. And I am really thrilled to have finally been admitted to Johns Hopkins University's biomedical engineering program and subsequently the Global Health Studies. Though the university application season can be a tough time, the results are inspiring after good efforts. I always believe that the beauty of the spring depends on how you spend the winter. I genuinely hope that every student can eventually see the blossom of their own spring flowers! Where East Meets West 中西文化融合 |
