SNN“前行”系列报道之一：Northwood High华裔网球女生 芝加哥大学等7所名校提前录取
SNN学生记者 Valerie Tu & Tom Gao采访报道
每年二至三月份，大部分美国高中学生依然还在焦急等待自己的大学录取消息，然而，Kerisa Lin ，尔湾Northwood 高中的一名华裔12年级学生，已经手握多所知名大学的录取通知书：芝加哥大学，埃默里大学，华盛顿大学，加州大学尔湾分校，克莱蒙大学等，她最终已经决定在USnews大学排名榜排名第3位的芝加哥大学度过她的大学生活。作为尔湾Northwood 高中网球女队的队长，她的网球水平已经在美国18岁组排名进入前百。SNN学生记者Valerie Tu 和Tom Gao近日采访了Kerisa Lin。
那些已经离不开的：
网球及永远支持自己的父母
与许多从小生活在美国的华裔同学一样，相对于中文，Kerisa已经更加习惯于英语交流，SNN记者了解到，Kerisa二岁多就随同父母到了马拉西亚生活，7岁多的时候来到了美国，就在这时候，她也开始了学习网球，她介绍说，开始时网球只是一个感兴趣的爱好而已，然而现在已经成为她生活的不可分离的一个重要部分。
Kerisa记得，后来，年纪很小的她就开始参加了网球赛事，网球比赛变得越来越紧张激烈时，她说她生活开始变得有些不同了，她改变了许多自己的日程和爱好。据她回忆，她有很大的压力，而这些压力主要来自于她的学业和网球。其实从十一年级开始，跟很多高中学生们一样：总是非常担心未来要上哪个学校，要怎样那个学校才会录取他们，Kerisa也不例外，在11年级，因为学习和网球，她感觉自己的生活有了一些问题，她甚至还感觉自己的日常生活已经因为网球赛事太满而受到了打扰，这些都给她带来了不小的烦恼。她曾认为她可以自己成功的度过所有难关，但最终，她介绍说，“其实还是需要自己的朋友，自己家人们来帮助释放一些压力”。
在尔湾、在南加很多人都知道Kerisa的父亲林迪教练，曾经中国网球国家队的主力队员、他曾经是一名职业网球运动员，获得过亚洲网球冠军。“我的父亲教导我，鼓励我，并帮助我训练网球来为赛事做准备，在此同时，他还早出晚归的工作来给我提供一个好的学习环境。”Kerisa说，“我的妈妈总是在鼓励我并且在我成绩开始下滑时提醒我并给我很好的建议。我要谢谢我的家长，没有他们我不可能成功。”
那些关于未来的：
大学,以及未来发展方向
尽管有来自家门口的名校加州大学尔湾分校UCI的橄榄枝，还有南加非常宜人的气候条件，Kerisa还是决定离开这里，到美东的著名学府芝加哥大学去探索自己的未来！
芝加哥大学建立于1890年，最出名的不仅仅是艺术和科学专业，还有像商业，法律，医学等专业领域。它建在芝加哥，伊利诺伊州。Kerisa说她参观时深深的被校园的环境和遇到的同学们所吸引，打动了，并且她很想体验一个别于尔湾的新环境。
Kerisa明白“学如逆水行舟，不进则退”，尽管她已经做的很好，她还在高中上了许多可以令她进步的课程，这也是为什么她能成警句所说，永远是追求理想、创造未来的最好的方法！”为一个很成功的学生，并获得芝加哥大学的奖学金。“工作、学习的努力，就像很多名言
SNN "Go Ahead" series:
Northwood High Chinese tennis girl
7 ED admission including Chicago University
SNN News student reporters Tom Gao and Valerie Tu had thepleasure to interview Kerisa Lin, who is well-known for her tennis skills.Kerisa is currently a senior in Northwood High School who got accepted by many colleges,like Emory University, University of Washington, University of CaliforniaIrvine , Claremont University, etc, but out of all of those amazing colleges,she finally decided to go to the University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago was established in 1890, bestknown for not only the arts and sciences, but also known for many otherprofessional fields such as business, law , medicine, and etc. It is located inChicago, Illinois. As Kerisa said, she was partly attracted by the campus ofthe school and all the amazing people she met during her visit trip, and shealso wanted to experience a new environment different than Irvine.
According to Kerisa, she had been playing tennis eversince she was seven, at that time she just moved from Malaysia to California. althoughin the beginning all was just for fun, the non-competitive type of playing.When tennis started to get more and more serious and Kerisa started going totournaments, she said that life started to feel different, it changed herschedule, and it changed her habits. During her junior year, Kerisa had facedher biggest challenges, she had resistance to the social world since she wasbusy between school and tennis. She thought that she could overcome all theproblems by herself and cope with them successfully, but as Kerisa recalled,she would had rather talked to friends and family to release her stress. Herstress mainly came from school as well as tennis. In junior year, it is oftenwhen students worry about which college they will be going to and how to maketheir dream colleges to accept them, and so was Kerisa. She felt that herschedule was really tight along with all her tennis tournaments. Defeats in thetournaments also brought stress to Kerisa.
A lot of people know that Kerisa’s father is Coach Di, whoused to be a professional tennis player, playing tennis as his career. AsKerisa told the reporters, her father had watched over her as she trains fortennis tournaments as well as teaching her and encouraging her in life. “Mymom,” said Kerisa, “she is always encouraging me and warns me whenever mygrades tend to fall downwards. But thanks to her, I become the successfulperson today.” “I am very grateful for my parents because my dad works superhard everyday to pay off the bills and to offer good learning environments tome, and my mom contributes a lot in monitoring my grades and they would bothadvise me whenever I need it.”
During the interview, the student reporters wereknowledged on academics by Kerisa. According to herself, Kerisa’s favorite schoolsubject is Language Arts, or English, because writing is a very essential skillin life, along with how one will be viewed depending on their writing. At thesame time, Kerisa said, that she was very glad to have an English teacher whonot only teaches valuable knowledges, but also teaches the philosophy andlong-lasting life lessons. These valuable lessons, according to Kerisa, arevery precious as it helps her to determine and decide such as which is thecorrect way to handle a situation or what should her react to one thing.Language Arts really contributes a lot to her, Kerisa said, and she might evenpossibly obtain a career that have relevance with Language Arts. However, shechooses to decide her future career as she completes college, “I am sure that Iwill eventually find something that interests me the most, and we will seethen”, said Kerisa.
Kerisa knows that"Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." shetakes classes that would help her to improve on her strengths in high schooleven when she already did very well and that is why she is a successful studentnow who got a scholarship to the well-known university the University ofChicago. Therefore, working hard, as many quotes said to inspire people, is thebest way to create one’s future and pursue their dreams.
本文由SNNnews学生记者采访报道，学生记者 Valerie Tu 来自 Jeffrry Trail Middle School 8年级，学生记者 Tom Gao 来自 Rancho Middle School 8年级
指导老师的话： SNN“前行”GO AHEAD系列报道是SNNnews推出的针对2017年优秀毕业生和优秀高中生学生的英文专访系列，本次学生记者的采访是第一个采访稿件，总体采访基本到位，内容全面，文字也流程。但是作为专访，最后的实现内容上还有欠缺，缺少一些生动的故事来让文章更加生动，加油！
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