勇敢选专业：我选故我爱!.doc

Brave majors follow heart, not trends 勇敢选专业：我选故我爱！ Wearing a simple cap and gown, Xue Yifan, 22, looks solemnly into the camera. Standing in front of the big library on campus, her graduation photo is a bit unusual - she is all alone. That’s because Xue is the only paleontology graduate from Peking University this year. 身着学士服，头戴学士帽，22岁的薛逸凡在镜头前显得很严肃。同样以高大的图书馆为背景，薛世凡的毕业照却有些与众不同——照片中只有她一个人，因为她是北京大学古生物学专业今年唯一的毕业生。 The photo went viral after it was posted online. People are impressed by her determination to pursue the academic degree. She devoted herself to a seemingly dull major instead of jumping on the bandwagon. 这张毕业照在被传到网上后迅速走红，她选择这个专业的决心更令人印象深刻。放弃了当下最“火”的专业，薛逸凡却选择了一个看似枯燥无味的专业。 But Xue is not the only student with a genuinely academic goal. There are many more students who choose less popular majors and stick to them, simply because they love what they are learning about. 勇敢追求自己学术目标的远不只薛逸凡一个人，还有很多学生也和她一样因为兴趣爱好而选择了相对冷门的专业。 Pure sound 纯粹的声音 Song Jiazhe, 21, is an audiology student at Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. His university offers the only audiology program for undergraduate students in China. About 100 students graduate from the major every year. 21岁的宋佳哲（音译）就读于浙江中医药大学，因为这所学校是中国唯一本科开设听力学专业的高校，每年约100名该专业的大学生从这里毕业。 “The number of graduates is so small that people seldom even notice the existence of our major, ” Song says. But he believes his major is of great importance. 宋佳哲说“这个专业的毕业生实在太少了，人们几乎都没听说过我们专业”。但他坚信自己的专业十分重要。 “We take care of newborn babies and seniors, ” he says. Checking the hearing of newborn babies and helping seniors with hearing loss are the two major responsibilities audiology graduates shoulder after their graduation. 他说：“我们照顾新生儿与老年人，为新生儿检查听力，帮助听力受损的老年人是我们专业毕业生的主要职责。” In order to achieve this goal, Song studies hard and values every opportunity to practice. He spends every vacation interning at hospitals. “I am always the first to arrive and the last to leave, just to get as much real experience as possible, ” he says. 为了能履行这一目标，宋佳哲努力学习，珍惜每一