玩游戏，支持女权，她获剑桥伯克利录取 | Nicole Admitted to Cambridge, UC-Berkeley
Nicole Z. 周钰喆
苏州德威国际高中2018年毕业班学生
目前被剑桥大学、加州大学伯克利分校等15所名校录取
“吃鸡”、英雄联盟、CSgo，
你能将这些词语和一个女学霸联系起来吗？
令人难以置信的是，
这些标签恰恰来自于手握剑桥、加州伯克利等
世界顶尖名校offer的学霸身上。
她除了游戏玩得溜而且还多才多艺，
钢琴十级、擅长美声，
更厉害的是她篮球打得非常好，
足球踢得也相当不错。
她就是来自苏州德威国际高中的周钰喆，
今天就让我们一起来看看，
爱玩的学霸到底是怎样练成的。
无心插柳柳成荫
主申美国学校却收获剑桥offer
时间退回到2018年1月10日，牛津与剑桥同时在这一天放榜。北京时间下午5点陆续有人收到了剑桥的录取消息，之前和周钰喆一起面试的两个朋友也传来一个被录取一个被拒的消息。这让她开始变得紧张起来，在家来回踱步，晚饭也顾不得吃。直到当天晚上九点，录取的信息通过手机传来之后，她悬着的心才终于放了下来。
周钰喆共申请了18所学校，目前一共收到了15份offer。除了剑桥之外，她还收到了加州大学伯克利分校、南加州大学、哥伦比亚巴纳德学院等美国知名顶尖院校的offer，美国方向的offer占据了大部分。
“能够被剑桥预录取可以说是意想不到的惊喜。”周钰喆兴奋的告诉记者：“我的主申请方向是美国，把希望和精力主要都放在这一块上面了。申请剑桥其实更多的是抱着试一下的心态，在运气的加成之下没想到收获了意外的惊喜。”
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立志推动性别平等与性教育普及
女性意识标签获得面试官的青睐
高二暑假到贫困山区的一次公益支教活动，让周钰喆第一次近距离地感受到了性别不平等的问题依然真实存在着。“在农村的一些小女孩到十五六岁就不再继续接受教育，而是选择外出务工或者早早结婚，这让我第一次感觉到性别这个事情会对一个人的人生轨迹产生重大影响。因为在这边（苏州）你不会因为自己是女性就低人一等，但是到了那里你就会明显感受到女性的地位比较低。”
后来参加了China Thinks Big让她对女性意识有了更深入的了解和研究。China Thinks Big简称CTB，中文名称为中国大智汇创新研究挑战赛。是耶鲁、斯坦福、清华、北大等数十家国内外顶尖大学，向中学生提出的年度研究课题和实践挑战。目前是最大的华人青少年创新比赛，该大赛产生了非常多的名校录取者，和自主招生录取者。
“畸形的性别意识使得女性更容易受到侵犯，同时舆论的二次伤害让女性受到侵犯之后不敢发声。”周钰喆说道：“比如一个女生受到侵犯之后，社会舆论反而指责受害者穿得过于暴露，而不是去谴责施暴者。解决畸形的性别意识是一个很大的社会难题，需要一步一步往下走。本着年纪越小接受度越高的原则，我和我的团队们认为性教育是第一步也是最重要的一步。”由于周钰喆和她团队在CTB的选题比较敏感同时争议性较大，所以在答辩的时候评委们尖锐的提问让他们感到压力颇大，但最后，她们还是凭借出色的表现获得了评委的认可，并荣获大赛的“杰出社会影响奖。”
除了在学术上关注性别平等以及性教育的问题，作为学生会主席，周钰喆还积极与学校沟通，希望能够在学校推动性教育活动的开展，她的想法也得到了学校的支持。此外，在她的邀请下，防身术教练来到学校给同学们做讲座，教女孩子在紧急情况下如何保护自己。
以上的经历她都实事求是地写进了申请文书，鲜明的女性意识标签让她得到了面试官的青睐并成功收获了剑桥土地经济专业的offer。“之前的支教经历让我强烈感受到地理位置对于经济的影响，也让我对于经济和地理两者之间的联系产生了浓厚的兴趣，自己也试着读《当代人文地理》、《经济的集聚》等专业的书籍来了解相关的知识。”当被问及为什么选择土地经济专业的时候周钰喆这样说道。
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学霸高度的自由与自律
背后源于佛系父母放养
不少人会认为学霸的背后都有着严厉的爸妈，可是这种说法在周钰喆身上却不适用，因为她的父母很“佛系”。“爸妈对我完全是放养状态，我老爸甚至不知道我在几班。他们认为学习是自己的事情，不会在我学习成绩上作明确的要求。即使在学校的申请上面，他们也只是给点意见，并没有干预我自己的选择。”
“虽然在我成长的过程中父母对我采取放养状态，管的比较少。但是在小学阶段，父母很注重引导我养成良好的学习习惯，特别是注意力的集中这一点。学习之余我也喜欢玩一些电子游戏，“吃鸡”、英雄联盟、CSgo这些游戏都有玩过。玩的时候就放开玩，但是学习的时候就必须全神贯注。不能去想其他的。”周钰喆说。父母对周钰喆的放养政策给了她极大的自由，可贵之处在于她没有辜负父母对她的信任。完成了课堂上的基础内容，她总是尽可能利用课余时间收集相关资料，主动去汲取更多的知识。同时德威的老师在上课的时候也鼓励她多听、多问、多互动，引导她辩证地看问题，培养她的发散性思维。
由于父母对他的干涉少，周钰喆的兴趣爱好也比一般女生来说更加广泛，钢琴十级，擅长美声的她可以说是能弹会唱。而一般女生通常不是很感兴趣的球类运动她也非常喜欢，她是学校的篮球队和足球队的主力队员，曾和队伍一起获得学校足球比赛的冠军，同时连续三年和女子篮球队获得学校比赛亚军。提起连续三年的亚军她坦言：“第一年因为两分的差距和冠军失之交臂，当时大家都很失落。接下来连续两年还是获得亚军，但是大家没有之前那么难以接受了，也意识到即使做到最好也不是所有的事情都会有完美的结局。除了名次之外，我想我们最大的收获就是学会了接受，接受不完美。”
关于放养
可能不少家长会对“放养”有一些误解，
所谓“放养”并不是对孩子完全放任不管，
真正的“放养”是一种信任。
是在帮助孩子养成高度自觉、自律的良好习惯之后，
给予孩子足够的信任和尊重，
同时在一旁担任引导的角色，
让孩子的个性和各项潜力得到充分的发展。
Nicole Received 15 Offers, including Cambridge and UC-Berkeley
Player unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), League of Legends (LOL) and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO). We do not normally see a correlation between dedicated video game players and straight A students. Nevertheless, these are the favorite games of a student accepted into Cambridge, UC-Berkeley, and some of the other top schools in the world.
In addition to playing video games, she is also quite versatile in other areas. For example, she is a Grade 10 piano player and a fine vocalist. She plays basketball to a high standard and her football skills are excellent. She is Nicole Zhou from Suzhou Dulwich International High School. How did this straight A game player become who she is today?
She unintentionally got into University of Cambridge while she mainly applied for American schools. Oxford and Cambridge both sent out results on January 10, 2018. At 5 am Beijing time, some people had received an admission letter from Cambridge. Two friends who had interviewed with Nicole had already received rejection messages. This made her start to get tense; she could not eat at dinner as she paced back and forth at home. It was not until after 9 pm that night that she finally received an offer from Cambridge via a text message.
Nicole applied for 18 schools and received15 offers. In addition to Cambridge, she also received offers from top universities in the United States, including the University of California-Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Barnard College in Columbia.
“Being able to be pre-admitted in Cambridge is an unexpected surprise.” Zhou excitedly said: “My main direction of application is the United States, putting hope and energy primarily in this direction. I did not expect to receive a surprise offer from Cambridge. It was a lucky bonus!"
However, if we look into Nicole’s character in more detail it becomes less surprising that she received an offer from Cambridge. For example, she is determined to promote the popularization of gender equality and sex education. During the second year of summer holidays at senior high school, she went to a poverty-stricken mountain area for a public support education activity, which enabled her to see the problem of gender inequality up close for the first time.
“Some young girls in rural areas do not continue to receive education at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Instead, they choose to go out to work or get married early. This makes me feel for the first time that the issue of gender will have a major impact on a person’s life path. Because you don't have to be inferior because you are a woman in Suzhou, but when you get there you will obviously feel the status of women is lower."
In addition to academically focusing on issues of gender equality and sex education, as the Head Girl of the Student Union, Nicole actively communicates with the school and hopes to promote sex education activities in schools. Her ideas have also received support from the faculty. In addition, at her invitation, a self-defense instructor came to the school to give lectures to the students and teach the girls how to protect themselves in an emergency.
This distinctive stance of feminine awareness gave her an edge during the university interview process and helped her to obtain an offer from Cambridge to Study Land Economics. “The previous experience of teaching has given me a strong sense of the impact of geography on the economy. It also gave me a keen interest in the link between economy and geography. I also read “Contemporary Human Geography” and “Economies of agglomeration" and other professional books to understand the relevant knowledge."
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