Graduate Interview | 王雨欣：探索无限可能，诠释多面青春

白驹过隙，又一届毕业生即将奔赴各自人生的星辰大海。四年点滴交织闪耀，光亮照向浩瀚征途。自本期起，广东以色列理工学院2018级本科毕业生系列采访将带大家走进广以学子们的故事，回忆往昔峥嵘岁月，共盼未来似锦前程。

本期我们将与大家分享化学工程专业毕业生王雨欣的故事。

王雨欣

本科专业：化学工程

毕业高中：深圳外国语学校

录取院校及专业：帝国理工学院，伦敦大学学院，约翰斯·霍普金斯大学，新加坡国立大学，康奈尔大学，卡耐基梅隆大学，荷兰代尔夫特理工大学

获得奖项：霍特奖冠军，广以校长奖学金，广以课外活动奖学金

她，手握霍特奖大湾区挑战赛冠军，潜心热门课题“微塑料”研究，是教授的得力助手，也是学弟学妹们喜爱的朋辈导师。对于广以2018级化学工程专业优秀毕业生王雨欣而言，挑战多种可能不仅仅是为了丰富简历，“充实快乐地过好每一天”才是她的人生箴言。

“虎刺怕”的最佳诠释：

不惧困难，直面挑战

从参赛“小透明”到勇夺商赛总冠军的经历

“虎刺怕”精神在广以所倡导的犹太教育中时常被提起，也是广以引进以色列理工学院的优良学术传统之一。以理校长佩雷兹·拉维对“虎刺怕”的解释是：不畏权威、勇敢面对困难、颠覆既有思考、超越常规——王雨欣团队参加霍特奖的经历正是对这一精神的完美诠释。

王雨欣（右三）所在广以团队

霍特奖被誉为“大湾区的学生诺贝尔奖”，也被时代杂志称为“改变世界的五个想法”，是全球领先的⼤学⾼校创业创新平台。2019年夏天，刚刚在广以度过一个学年的王雨欣抱着体验的心情报名参加了比赛。

在最初的“招兵买马”组队阶段，王雨欣就遭遇了不小的挫折。参赛者来自粤港澳大湾区的25所顶尖高校，其中不乏来自商科强势专业、颇具商赛经验的翘楚。而广以作为首次参赛的理工科院校，在如此激烈的竞争中并不被看好，甚至没有参赛者愿意与王雨欣和其他几位广以学生组队。“大家都组好队了，就剩我们四个广以的小伙伴无人问津，于是我们决定自成一队。”

队伍成立最晚、参赛经验不足……但这并没有挫败他们的信心，“提交创意的前一天晚上，我们一直聊到场馆关闭，之后又转到另一间通宵活动室继续聊。”回忆起“孵化想法”的夜晚，王雨欣仍然记忆犹新。

王雨欣与团队讨论中

在他们看来，商业项目的推动绝不仅仅是纸上谈兵，而需要主动走访调研才能取得真实数据。凭着一股初生牛犊不怕虎的精神，王雨欣和队员们马上开始了市场调研——打电话到各个机构咨询合作意向、前往实地向目标受众了解真实需求、积极与商赛会场上来自政府、企业等各界人士讨论市场供需规模与方案可行性。

凭借脚踏实地的市场调查数据，王雨欣团队的方案脱颖而出。最终，这只首次参加霍特奖、由几名广以大一学生组成的“黑马”队伍击败来自香港中文大学、香港大学、中山大学和华南理工大学等知名高校的优秀参赛者，一举斩获冠军！

王雨欣（右二）所在广以团队夺冠

主动才会有故事

把握好广以的资源，尽早试错

王雨欣以霍特奖冠军正式开启在广以的四年精彩生活，随后，她还曾担任学生助理、朋辈导师以及实验室助理，同时参与模拟联合国大会、电影社、舞蹈社等丰富的社团生活。而在她的故事里，“主动尝试“是最常提起的词汇。

机会从来都是留给有准备的人。王雨欣想告诉学弟学妹们，“把握好在学校每一次表现的机会！”

在广以，有许多课程要求同学们上台展示，用全英文讲述自己小组作业的成果，而王雨欣对自己的英语演讲能力很自信，正是利用课堂展示的机会极大地锻炼了自己的口才和语言。凭借着流利、有条理的英文展示，王雨欣抓住机会与教授深入沟通，成为大一就进入课题组参与科研的佼佼者之一。进而接触到热门课题“微塑料“，为之后的申研经历早早打下了坚实的科研基础。

从最基础的实验开始，到后面熟练掌握，独立取样测量，王雨欣在实验室里经常忙到凌晨才能回到宿舍。课余时间里，王雨欣和课题小组的同学跑遍周边地市取样、晚上在实验室埋头工作，一起测量分析了周边地区主要水体的微塑料含量。随后，她们又对重点地区的人类胎盘、甚至是日常食物中的微塑料含量进行取样。对同一课题三年的潜心研究，已经使王雨欣积累了超越同辈的科研经验，甚至达到研究生的标准，也为她的人生添上浓墨重彩的一笔。

王雨欣担任大一新生的朋辈导师

王雨欣担任英语助教

除了自己的科研工作之外，不吝分享、热心助人的王雨欣还承担了实验助理的工作，为师弟师妹们指导实验台的操作。这个阳光自信的女孩也渴望发挥自己善于沟通的能力，便报名成为广以的朋辈导师，为初入校园的大一新生提供经验指导。她还担任行政部门的学生助理，发挥自己在数据分析和活动组织方面的特长，也积累了自己未来步入社会的实际工作能力。

广以的许多课程在王雨欣看来都很有意义，“Connie老师开设的Advanced Discussion和Academic Writing等课程，对之后准备申研时CV的撰写、专业论文的写作和应对面试等方面都非常有帮助。”

王雨欣鼓励学弟学妹们，“可以尽早向教授了解是否能进他的实验室工作，我觉得早一点做会比晚一点做要好，因为你也可以知道到底喜不喜欢这一个研究方向，或者后续如果有其他规划，也可以到其他教授的课题组进行交叉学科、交叉背景的研究。多种尝试之后，申请时你的背景也会比较全面。另一方面，如果你确定你自己对科研不感兴趣，也可以及时的调整。”

王雨欣参与电影社社团活动

王雨欣参与舞蹈社活动

“广以没有那么多条条框框，氛围其实比较随性一点，学校提供了挺多机会，给大家自由发挥的余地也比较大。” 

正是在广以，王雨欣探索了大学生活的无限可能，也给毕业季交上了多彩的完美答卷。

Time flies and the second cohort of students are going to graduate from Guangdong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT) this year. From this article, we will present a series of interviews with the graduates from the Class of 2022, to show their stories at GTIIT in the past four years.

Here is the story of Wang Yuxin, a student in the Chemical Engineering Program.

Wang Yuxin

Class of 2022

High School: Shenzhen Foreign Languages School

Received Offers from: Imperial College London, University College London, Johns Hopkins University, National University of Singapore, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, TU Delft

Awards：the champion of Hult Prize Grand Challenge, GTIIT Chancellor's Scholarship, GTIIT Extra-curricular Scholarship

Wang Yuxin, member of the champion team of the Hult Prize Greater Bay Area Innovation Challenge 2019, has devoted to the micro-plastic research for nearly all her university life. In people's eyes, she's the best assistant to the professor, the favorite peer mentor among the juniors, and the warm-hearted friends. "I just want to live everyday fully and happily," she said.

Best Interpretation of “Chutzpah”: 

Ready to take risk, Ready to sustain failure

From Nobody to Champion: the Story of the GTIIT Team

Chutzpah, often mentioned in the Jewish education, is also one of the academic traditions introduced by GTIIT. Peretz Lavie, President of Technion, explained Chutzpah as the character of expressing yourself in public, the character of sustaining failure, the character of daring to do something which does not conform to the routine. The story of Wang's champion team is a perfect expression of that.

Wang with her teammates

Hult Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize for Students", chosen as one of the "Top 5 Ideas Changing the World" by Time Magazine, is a start-up accelerator for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from universities around the world.

At the end of May, 2019, Wang, with several classmates, set off for the Hult Prize competition in Shenzhen. She didn't want to waste her summer holiday and decided to go for fun, but never knew she would have met a bitter fight.

They lost the very first battle in the team-up stage. Hundreds of outstanding students from 25 universities in the Greater Bay Area attended this event, among them were some of the most experienced. Wang and the other GTIIT students were counted out for they were just green hands in the fierce competition, and from a university that even doesn't own business majors. "No one wanted to team up with us. We had no choice but to form our own team."

Lack of experience didn't hold back their action. "The close of the venue didn't stop our discussion. We talked about the plan until midnight." Wang still remembers the night before the deadline for submission.

Wang with her teammates

For the young team, they knew the commercial project should not be limited to plan book, but requires market survey and real data. This is similar to science research-- a doer than a talker. Wang's team immediately started their commercial research—calling and visiting to the target users; discussing the feasibility with the as many experts from enterprises and governments as possible.

Finally, the team won the recognition from all the judges with their reliable research result. Wang and her members, four freshmen students attending the Hult Prize for the first time, beat over 200 competitors from well-known universities including Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology.

Wang's team won the champion

You Never Know the Result Before Action

Enjoy GTIIT's Resources and Try Early

Hult Prize is not an end and Wang lived a more wonderful life in GTIIT. She worked as the student assistant, peer mentor and other positions provided for students, to gain more job experience. She also participated in multiple club activities including the film club and dance club. In her story, "Action" is the key.

Luck favors the prepared ones. Wang shares her way: "Seize every chance to perform well in school!" Opportunity for Wang came in a class presentation. With a fluent and organized English presentation, she got the chance to deeply communicate with the professor and became one of the outstanding students who joined the research group in the freshman year. From that time, Wang started her research in micro-plastics, which laid a solid scientific foundation for her future.

From year one, Wang spent time in lab until midnight. She and her teammate went to neighbor cities to take samples from water bodies, daily foods and even human placentas. Research in the same topic for three years enables Wang to own more research experience than her peers, and even graduate students.

Wang Worked as Peer Mentor

Wang Worked as Teaching Assistant

Outside research work, the generous and warm-hearted girl also undertook the job as laboratory assistant, guiding the experiment operation for the junior students. Eager to share her experience with more people, Wang also signed up as a peer mentor to help more freshmen students. She also served as a student assistant to the administrative department, accumulating practical abilities for future work.

Wang thinks GTIIT offered many meaningful courses. "Courses including Advanced Discussion and Academic Writing taught by Connie are very helpful for CV writing, paper writing and interview preparation."

She also wants to encourage the juniors, "Ask for professors' permission to enter their research team. Do this as early as possible, as you still have time change the research direction. You can also prepare yourself with interdisciplinary or cross-background research experience, which will enrich your application background. On the other hand, if you decide not to carry on academic way, you can turn to the other one in time."

Wang in Film Club

Wang in Dance Club

"There are not too many disciplines or rules in GTIIT, where we share a rather casual environment. We are provided with a lot opportunities. It is more like a free play.”

Wang Yuxin explored the infinite possibilities of university life in GTIIT. In the "university exam" of her life, this is the perfect answer.

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