On September 11， 2020， we are very lucky to invite Xiaoshi Yu, a senior preceptor in Chinese at Harvard University, to our career building sharing conference. In this half an hour, we talked about her profession and status of work. Since Lecturer Yu has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and a Master of Arts degree in English and American Literature, which are highly relevant to most of us audiences who major in English, she focus on her experience of learning language and literature, her choice-making of going in her present teaching career and some practical, meaningful and pertinent advices.
For the advices in choosing to employ and applying for graduate school. What we were told was that to follow our own likes and dislikes, and to make decisions based on our own personal situation and needs. Once we made our choices, make sure to take effort to realize it. Be sure to be always prepared for opportunities and have the courage to ask as many questions as possible. The interaction between hosts and our guest speaker, lecturer Yu, is very relaxing and pleasant. During the talk, our host posts an interesting question:“If you were another choice, would you still choose your original major and current job?”
Lecturer Yu answers honestly that she might want to be engaged in math, computer science or chemistry because she also did good at those. To consider it more deeply, if being given a second chance, we might choose another way to go but were exclaiming with pity for giving up our present route also. However, Lecturer Yu’s happy face and spiritual speech tell us that she is also satisfied with her present job. We guess that the most important thing for all of us is to do the things we like, to do the things that we have an eternal passion for.
Written by Alyssa Xu on September 20, 2020.
