This summer, taking the convenience of my brother’s internship at Harvard’s Lab, also for adapting the feeling of summer school in advance, I participated in two camps at MIT about AI/Machine Learning and Robotics.
At first I was nervous about communicating with strangers, how to make new friends and I was actually a bit resisting about the upcoming camps. I had to admit that staying too long at familiar places and only connect with good friends had gradually exacerbated my social phobia. Deep inside my heart, I was eager to make some changes, but on the surface it was still a great divide waiting to be crossed. So I took these camps also with this mission on myself.
First day at the camp, instructors were nicer than I thought, everybody was smiling and instructors were trying to lead students to sing together with a huge radio. I sat at the amphitheater, there were a lot of space between everybody next to others. Apparently no-one was familiar with others and it was obvious that they were also trying to break this invisible estrangement.
Other than the greater confidence to communicate with others and the experience of American culture, the more imperative thing this trip to Cambridge made is that I yielded a more determine future goal about future hard works. I was so honored to visit some of the best schools in the world deeply.
During the deep tour in MIT, I was impressed by the high-tech hardware and various lab exhibits inside. This was the first time I felt intuitively that the departments around me in MIT were, are, and will keep changing the world. Photolithography machine, nuclear reactor, those forms seemed so far from a college both appeared in MIT. The underground laboratories are working neatly, orderly, and perfectly, every parts of this school reminded me repeatedly that this school is the exact college in my dream.
After analyzed the students in MIT carefully, I felt that the road ahead for me to pursue my dream will be unimaginably difficult. Actually no matter my dream school is, for completing my dream I have to work twice harder than before or even more. At the same time it is critical to improve my study, life and exercise habits and so on. Think about my current situation, consider the unfinished jobs I have to complete, pressure surrounds me inside.
But isn't life like this? There will always be bumps and bruises on the way to pursuing higher goals and dreams. This pressure will never decrease, and will even increase in the future. So this is just the beginning of everything. I am very honored that I have the opportunity to concrete my dream. I hope this is a node in my life. And after this summer in Cambridge, I can really have a better habit to continuously evolve myself and develop a strong, perseverant and interesting soul deep in my heart.
“The best way out is always through.” ----Robert Frost
