我们的云访校又和大家见面了，今天第4期，我们一起来看看卡内基梅隆大学！
众所周知，卡梅是一所计算机强校，全民CS，甚至各种理科文科的学生，都会申请转CS专业，那么喜欢计算机或者编程的小伙伴自然觉得这里是天堂，但对计算机完全不感冒的同学来说，卡梅又是一个怎样的存在？
（我们今年就有商科入读卡梅，最终因计算机相关课业压力巨大，且不喜欢全民计算机的这种氛围，而决定转学）
本期云访校，我们先来看看学生眼中真实的卡梅，卡梅访校内容、院校信息详情、优秀文书案例见文末！
卡梅的云访校为大家带来了Tour Campus（校园参观），Admission Counseling Sessions（入学咨询会）以及 Information Sessions（招生宣讲会）三大板块。招生宣讲会中依然是学校专业介绍，申请流程说明，答疑环节。
CMU的独特之处是什么
学生热情努力，丰富的跨学科学习机会，学业压力大，种族文化多样性…
Sujung：Everyone is very passionate about what they do and extremely hard-working and driven.
每个人都对自己的所作充满热情，并且非常努力进取。
Lindsay：Carnegie Mellon offers lots of interdisciplinary options for students. There are dual degree programs which allow for combinations of studies in fine arts and natural science, engineering and humanities, and other colleges. There are also interdisciplinary majors such as the Global Studies major. So, instead of having your options limited, you have the opportunity to combine your interests in productive ways.
卡梅为学生提供了非常多的跨学科选择，双学位课程。可以将美术和自然科学，工程和人文学科，或者其他学院的研究组合在一起。也有像全球研究这样的跨学科专业。因此，你的选择不会受到限制，你有机会以高效的方式组合你的兴趣。
Matt：Ironically, the causes of the most frustration to Carnegie Mellon students are also the most desirable qualities of the university. The pressure to achieve at a high level is so great that even students that fall behind have advantage over peers at other universities. CMU's reputation garners immediate respect for its students, who consequently have little trouble landing internships, post-graduate work, and admission to prestigious graduate schools.
具有讽刺意味的是，卡梅学生最头疼的原因，恰恰是卡梅最引以为傲之处。取得高水平成就的压力特别大，以至于即使是落后的学生也比其他大学的同龄人有优势。而且卡梅的声誉使它的学生很受尊重，因此，他们在获得实习机会、工作以及进入著名的研究生院方面几乎没有任何麻烦。
Laura：The best thing about Carnegie Mellon would probably be the diversity among its student body-- and not just racially and/or culturally. Our personalities range from the practical engineers to the out-going drama majors to the crazy science fanatics. Without such a diverse atmosphere, I believe I would feel boxed in at this school, which would be doomed to a stereotype of either too academically oriented or too artsy for any well-rounded persons' tastes.
卡梅最大的优点可能是学生群体的多样性，而不仅仅是种族和文化上的多样性。个性的学生来自于实用的工程师、外向的戏剧专业学生、疯狂的科学狂热者。如果没有这样一个多元化的氛围，我相信我在这所学校里会感到束缚，对于任何一个全面发展的人来说，这所学校注定要么太学术化，要么太艺术化。
CMU的宿舍怎么样
宿舍适合社区活动，有很多有趣的传统。
Paul：The dorms create a great sense of community for those who are into that kind of thing, and are easily escapable for those who aren't. We have several strictly freshman dorms and a few for upperclassmen. Mudge House is a repurposed mansion. Donner House looks like its covered with bathroom tiles to me, and the inside is kind of a maze, but the students who dorm there love it. The Residence on Fifth has small theatre room and a game room, and the actual bedrooms have kitchens. Hammerschlag House is an all-male dorm with lots of traditions like Schlagmare, a haunted house type of thing during Hilloween (a Halloween celebration by the three or four dorms on "The Hill"), and Sausage Fest, where they grill up sausages and burgers for the campus. All the dorms have community events to allow students to socialize with each other and relax a bit between studies. Most of the dorms are pretty old, so they all have their own kind of personality and traditions. These tend to be pretty fun though, not stodgy, and where people dormed their freshman year tends to create a kind a of bond between them.
宿舍为喜欢社区活动的人创造了一种很好的社区氛围，而不喜欢的人也很容易逃避。
我们有几个新生宿舍和几个高年级学生宿舍。
Mudge House是一栋改建的豪宅；而Donner House在我看来像铺满浴室瓷砖的宿舍，里面有点像个迷宫，但住在那里的学生很喜欢它；第五公寓有小剧院和游戏室，卧室和厨房；Hammerschlag House是一间全是男生的宿舍，有很多传统，比如Schlagmare，Hilloween（在“the Hill”上的三、四个宿舍举办的万圣节庆祝活动），还有“香肠节”(Sausage Fest)，他们会为学校烤香肠和汉堡。
所有的宿舍都有社区活动，让学生们互相交流，在学习间隙放松一下。大多数宿舍都很古老，所以都有自己的个性和传统。不过这些都很有趣，而不是单调乏味，在大学一年级宿舍，大家相互之间往往能建立某种联系。
CMU的学生什么样
激情且聪明，勤奋，左派，差异，同性恋…
Sarah：Carnegie Mellon students are motivated and highly intelligent with interdisciplinary interests, ambitious goals and a commitment and passion for their work.
充满干劲和智慧，具有跨学科的兴趣，雄心勃勃的目标以及对工作的投入和热情。
Max：I covered most of this already. They are relatively boring, myopic, apolitical and capitalistic; brainwashed by corporations, yet blissfully unaware. There is a love of gadgets bordering on obsessive. The students are remarkably unfriendly and hard to engage or interact with outside of one's own field or department.
他们相对乏味、短视，不关心政治和资本主义。被公司洗脑，却幸福地浑然不知。对小玩意的喜爱近乎着迷。这些学生非常不友好，在自己的领域或部门之外很难与之接触或互动。
L：talented - gorgeous - hardworking - probably leaning politically left - either very gay, or very gay-friendly. this is drama school people. - somewhat financially diverse - somewhat racially diverse - very diverse in terms of geography
才华横溢，相貌出众，工作勤奋，在政治上可能倾向左派，同性恋或者对同性恋非常友好。这是戏剧学校的人。有金融上的差异，种族上的差异，地理上的差异。
Ryan：CMU is pretty apathetic, really. There are religious groups, political and LGBT groups on campus that are active, and you will find people that will support whatever interests you have, but in general most people are focused on their studies. The campus leans to the left, but it is far from "super liberal". Also, the student body is generally affluent, but there are many exceptions and it isn't assumed that everyone has strong financial resources in their parents. The only people who would feel out of place on campus are people who aren't passionate about life -- about their major, about the world, about their place in our future. I'm not going to lie -- disengaged, undirected people will not like it here.
CMU真的很冷漠。校园中有活跃的宗教团体、政治团体和LGBT团体，你能找到支持你任何兴趣的人，但通常大多数人都专注于他们的学习。
校园偏左派，但离“超级自由主义”还很远。同样，学生群体通常比较富裕，但也有许多例外情况，并不是每个人的父母都有强大的经济资源。
唯一会在校园里感到不适的人是那些对生活没有热情的人，对自己的专业、对世界、对未来的地位不感兴趣。
我不会撒谎：闲散、没有方向感的人不会喜欢这里。
你最想吐槽CMU什么
学业负担重，缺乏睡眠，学费贵，校园太小，追求金钱与地位…
Brandon：It is very easy to get brainwashed into the "I'm going to a great school and am going to get a great job and make great money when I'm done" mentality that exists in the culture here. The prospect of getting a degree for the sake of acquiring money as a means of raising one's status undermines the development of true passion and ingenuity for a trade or a cause.
“我要上一所好学校，我要找一份好工作，我要挣很多钱”的心态很容易被洗脑。获得学位是赚钱和提高个人地位的一种手段，这种前景会破坏对某种行业或事业的真正热情和创造力。
Grace：The worst thing about my school would be the lack of sleep everyone gets, due to their workloads - but that's true at most prestigious colleges, no?
关于我的学校，最糟糕的事情是由于任务量大而导致每个人都缺乏睡眠，但这在大多数享有声望的大学中都是这样，不是吗？
Aleksandra：The worst thing about my school would probably be the size. Because it is such a small school, everyone hears things about everyone else. This can lead to huge social problems.
我学校最糟糕的事情可能是规模。因为这是一所很小的学校，所以每个人都能听到其他人的事情，这会导致巨大的社会问题。
Jacob：The worst thing about my school is probabaly how busy people sometimes seem to get. It can get pretty stressful but, at the same time, you always want to do more and don't have enough time for it.
最糟糕的事情可能是人们看起来似乎很忙，可能会带来很大的压力，但与此同时，您总是想做更多的事情，而没有足够的时间来做。
Grace：expensive, competitive
不仅学费贵，还压力山大。
Leslie：Without a doubt, the biggest complaint students have at CMU is the academic workload. Regardless of your major, the amount of time, energy, and effort students apply towards their craft is borderline nauseating. Students are almost in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation due to perfectionist tendencies, and the actual amount of schoolwork and studying associated with receiving their desired grade.
毫无疑问，CMU学生最大的抱怨是学业负担。不管什么专业，学生们在专业上投入的时间、精力和努力都让人感到恶心。由于太过追求完美，学生们几乎永远处于睡眠剥夺的状态，以及与获得理想成绩相关的课业和学习量。
想对大一新生说什么
大学是成长的地方，不要害怕犯错，不要害怕提出问题，不要停止写作，多多寻求朋友的帮助…
Audra：The journey will not be a straight line. You will not come out of college with the same career asperations and life visions you went into. The experiences you are most afraid to try will be the ones you cherish, that you turn over in your head an adult when things are uncertain. Don't be afraid of going abroad. You can and should never ben ashamed of asking for advice. However, remember that you already unciously know what you want. Listen to your gut. Take photos. Take photos of all those moments that seem fragile and transient. Don't be afraid to make mistakes or to go have stereotypical college experiences. The time to be an adult comes sooner than you think. You can trust your college friends with your hardships. When you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer junior year, you don't need to bear it silently. Your friends are stronger than you know and won't begrudge you help. Never let yourself stop writing.Once you reach graduate school, it will seem so important to learn to be professional, but don't allow yourself to lose the love of capture a moment in words on a page.
旅程不会是一条直线，你不会带着和你之前一样的职业困境和生活愿景从大学毕业。那些你最害怕去尝试的经历将会是你最珍惜的，当事情不确定的时候，你会成长起来。
不要害怕出国，不应为寻求建议而感到羞耻。
但是，记住你想要什么，听从你的直觉。
拍照，把那些看起来脆弱而短暂的瞬间拍下来。不要害怕犯错，也不要害怕陈规定型的大学生活，长大成人的时间比你想象的要早。
你可以把你的困难托付给你的大学朋友，当你在大三被诊断为甲状腺癌时，你不需要默默承受。你的朋友比你想象的强大，他们不会吝惜于帮助你。
永远不要让自己停止写作，一旦你进入研究生院，学习成为专业人士似乎非常重要，但是不要让自己失去在文字中捕捉瞬间的爱。
也许你已经非常了解CMU，说起学校排名、学院专业、区位、校友等可以滔滔不绝。
也许你刚刚开始选校，对于CMU你只知道很厉害，其他一概不知。
也许你已将卡梅列入申请清单，但是还不太了解今年的招生政策。
