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Test your intellect （智力） without the pressure of letter grades. You will be challenged by Ivy League scholars as you immerse yourself in one subject in a small class of approximately 15 students. Classes are non-credit, so you can take a college-level course for learning's sake.

●Live a balanced (college) life. When class is not in session, you can participate in creative and social activities. Join in co-curricular activities that stimulate your mind. And take time to have fun and get to know your peers. 

● Discover your passions. Whether you're undecided about potential areas of study or want to take a deeper dive into subject you love, the Pre-College Program can help you find what really excites you.

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The admissions committee is looking for mature, academically motivated students who meet both of the following criteria: 

●Will graduate from high school and enter college in 2023 or 2024

●Are at least 16 years old by June 18, 2022, and will not turn 19 years old before July 31, 2022

The Course Experience

With over 30 courses to choose from in each session of three, you're sure to find a topic that inspires your interest.

You take one course during a session, and although courses are non-credit and do not have letter grades,  they are rigorous（严格的）. 

At the end of the program, you'll receive a written evaluation from your instructor, as well as a Harvard transcript（成绩单） with a grade of AR or NM （"above requirements" or "requirements not met"）. This is a great way to boost your college application.

Explore the 2022 course catalog or browse courses. 

Cost: $4, 950+$75 application fee, $100 health insurance (The program fee includes tuition, room and board, and activity costs for the full two weeks. )

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Francis Kéré was named as the winner of the 2022 Pritzker prize, architecture's highest international honor. He is the first African architect to be recognized in the influential award's 43-year history. 

"Francis Kéré's entire body of work shows us the power of materiality（物质性）rooted in place，" said the Pritzker jury（评委会），"His buildings， for and with communities， are directly of those communities-in their making, their materials, their programs and their unique characters. They have presence without pretense and an impact shaped by grace. "

Born in Gando in 1965, Kéré was the first in his community to attend school, sent away at the age of seven, after which he won a scholarship to study woodwork in Germany. He saw slim chances for a career in carpentry and switched to architecture at the Technical University of Berlin. For his final project he designed a primary school for his home village - and set about fundraising and mobilizing friends and family to see it built. He thought he owed a lot to his community. The project was realized in 2000, for about £20, 000. 

Kéré's Gando primary school set out the basic principles that would go on to define his work, using earth bricks made on site， topped with a perforated（有孔的）ceiling crowned by a thin "flying roof". He suspended his metal canopy（顶篷）above the classrooms to draw cool air in through the building＇s side windows and release hot air through the holes in the ceiling. The whole village was involved in construction, beginning a cooperative model of practice that he has continued ever since. The school won an Aga Khan award in 2004, taking Kéré to international fame and prompting him to found his practice in Berlin the following year.

One invitation after another, Kéré continues to experiment with natural alternatives to modern materials and systems, "I am constantly looking, " he said. "I am not limiting myself with a formal language. " Kéré's most ambitious buildings are still to come, despite having received the lifetime achievement of Pritzker prize.

"Robots are klutzes, " says Ken Goldberg, an engineer AI expert at the University of California, Berkeley. A computer can easily defeat a human grandmaster at the game of chess by coming up with better moves. Yet a robot has trouble picking up an actual chess piece.

Though computers have advanced by leaps and bounds since 1980s, babies and kids still beat machines at certain types of tasks. 

The first task. Robots face three challenges in grabbing an object. Number one is the ability to locate an object. Even with advanced cameras and sensors that measure distance, robots still get confused by anything "shiny or transparent, " Goldberg notes. The second challenge is control. A robot's cameras and sensors won't always be in perfect sync（同步）with its moving "hand". And physics poses the final challenge. To grasp something, you must understand how that object could shift when you touch it. Physics predicts that motion. But on small scales, this can be unpredictable, for very tiny bumps on the floor or the object may change the motion（运动）.

Despite these challenges, humans grasp things all the time. Millions of years of evolution provided brains and bodies with ways to adapt. To help robots learn "robust（强有力的）grips"，Goldberg's team set up a virtual world DexNet where the AI model receive training. The DexNet contains more than 1, 600 different virtual 3-D objects and five million different ways to grab them. To be more like the real world, the team threw in some randomness. For each grasp, they shifted either the object or grabber just a little. After completing the training, a robot can figure out its own robust grasp for a real-world object it has never seen before.

Thanks to research like this, robots are getting less of "the klutze". Currently robots have trouble with other tasks including getting around the world, understanding people and thinking of new ideas. With engineers'work and efforts, it's expected that someone will design a graceful robot or even an AI model with common sense. "For now, though, if you want to beat a robot at chess, make it play on a real, physical chess board. " Goldberg adds.

We're living in the age of digital overload. This culture of constant connection takes a toll（造成损失） both professionally and personally. We are kept busy but can't concentrate. We keep constantly checking our laptops, tablets, and phones with stress, for fear of missing out. Are we addicted? How to regain our focus?

The solutions of two experts, Larry Rosen, a psychologist, and Samuel, a technologist, offer useful approaches separately on how we can begin to tackle this huge and growing challenge. 

In one of his studies, Rosen's colleague Nancy Cheever brought 163 students into a lecture hall, asked them to sit without talking, doing work, or using their phones, and then assessed their anxiety over the next hour. Although light smartphone users showed no change, moderate users experienced initial alarm that leveled off, and those accustomed to checking their phones all day long felt their anxiety rise immediately and continue to increase. Some people refer to the overuse of digital devices as an addiction. But since most of us don't appear to gain much pleasure from the behavior-a defining feature of addiction-Rosen doesn't classify it as such.

How do we calm the anxiety and thereby avoid the distraction? Rosen recommends using behavioral principles to disconnect yourself from your digital devices. Allow yourself to check all modes of e-communication, but then shut everything down and silence your phone. Set an alarm for 15 minutes, and when it rings, give yourself one minute for a tech check-in. Repeat this process until you are comfortable increasing your off-grid time to an hour or several hours. 

Samuel argues that "Turning off" is simply not a well-founded solution in the digital age. Technology was not the problem; our use of it was. We were not using tools designed to make online communications as focused and productive as possible. Now the first step is to abandon the myth（荒诞的说法）of "keeping up". Instead, your goals should be to sort and limit the information you receive and to streamline the work of reading, responding to, and sharing what matters. Then, as for E-mail, news consumption and posting, automation offers huge benefits. Outlook, Gmail, and most other major e-mail tools will allow you to set rules and filters.

7 ways to stand out from the crowd

In many industries and professions, competition for jobs continues to intensify.  . But chances are, so will several other candidates. Here are some ideas, based on true stories, about how to stand out from the crowd?

Add a personal touch.

Reaching out to your potential employer following an interview, especially if it's in a thoughtful way, will help you to be the candidate that leaves a lasting impression..

It's an old-fashioned courtesy which, done well, is likely to gain approval., Referencing parts of the conversation also shows you were fully engaged throughout the process.

Do your research.

How do you answer the question "What do you know about us"? It's boring if you just recite the About Us page. Read the annual report instead. That way you get a feel for the type of language the company uses and you're already tapping into their DNA. 

The annual report helps candidates to understand what really matters to the organisation. . And then you can play those back at interview. 

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A related soft skill that can help you stand out from the crowd is "learning agility"-a willingness and enthusiasm to move with the times, take on new skills and expand into new areas as business requirements and priorities evolve. What we learn at school often doesn't equip us with the tools for the jobs of tomorrow, so you need to be able to demonstrate evidence of your willingness and ability to learn new skills, and adapt or take on new challenges and working patterns. 

A. Demonstrate a growth mindset

B. Show some courage and ability to bounce back quickly

C. Sure, you may tick all the right boxes in terms of qualifications

D. Candidates can stand out to a company by asking bold questions

E. A simple way to do this is to compose a handwritten thank you note

F. Get a good idea of the keywords that characterise the company's approach

G. Better still, it gives you another chance to get your name in front of your potential employer

As a pediatrician（儿科医生） and host of a parenting program， I come across a lot of parenting stories. Few stories have ever inspired me so much that it left me 1 myself I'd strive to be better tomorrow, 2 this one.

Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie3 There are things I was thinking: I had been cross with you. I scolded you as you 4 wiped your face with a towel in the morning. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I5 angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor. 

6 , you wolfed down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You7 butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you waved goodbye and I frowned, "Look at your posture（姿势）．Hold your8 back！"

Then it began9 in the late afternoon. As I came up the road, I spied you, 10 on your knees, playing marbles（弹球）．There were 11 in your socks．I humiliated（使丢脸）you before your friends by12 you to the house. "Socks are expensive. And if you had to —13 them you would be more careful! "

Remember later; when I was reading in the study, you came in 14 , with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? Glancing up over my15 , I was impatient at the interruption. You ran up, threw your arms around my neck tightly and kissed me, with such a deep 16 . 

Well, son, Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have17  there, ashamed!

Think of how often we want our kids to be18 . We keep an eye out for their every tiny error to teach them. But if we, who are adults are allowed to make mistakes, to learn and19 , then remember to20 your children by their own yardstick（标注）. 

Have you ever wondered what happens to all of the old objects launched into space, such as rockets and satellites? It's called space junk, and much of it is still out there now. One large piece of space junk, disused rocket, hit the dark side of the moon on March 4. The rocket's origin is not clear, but scientists know that it was massive— (weigh) about 3 tons.

What is(significance) about this space junk crash is that it draws attention to some of the potential (danger) of space junk. First, the accumulation of space junk in Earth's orbit means that satellites and the International Space Station （ISS） are at risk． In 2016，tiny space debris（残骸），measured smaller than a millimeter, caused a tiny chip in the ISS'window. Imagine the damage that a (large) piece of debris could cause. The European Space Agency website states that objects "up to 1 cm in size could (able) an instrument or a critical flight system on a satellite" while objects over 10 cm "could shatter a satellite or spacecraft into pieces". In addition to potential damagespacecraft and satellites, space junk also poses a threat to the Earth(it). Crashes can send debris into the atmosphere where it can remain for many decades. Some powerful collisions can even send large debris hurtling（猛冲） toward Earth's surface where it can affect the local environment. Leftover rocket debris can contain toxic materials that(be) harmful to plants and animal life. Some people in Siberia have even reported serious health problems after rocket debris landed in their regions in 2012, a local doctor told the BBC.

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Dear Michael, 

I'm glad to know that you are learning Chinese language and culture. In your email you say that you wanted to know something about my family spirits.

Well, there are many good qualities what have been passed generation to generation in my family. My parents always lay emphasis on the importance of honesty, brave, perseverance and diligence, setting good examples for my brother and me. 

My family spirit has the profound influence to me. I'm always friendly to others and ready to help others. It always cheers us up, inspired me to chase my goal even though I meet with difficulties.  Owing to those good qualities, and I have made great achievements in my studies and life. 

Yours, 

Li Hua

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