My first experience with Imperial
我在帝国理工的初体验
中英图文by Harold Wang
剑桥高中2020届
In this summer, I attended the Global Summer School (GSS) in Imperial College London. This programme is designed to give prospective students of ICL a better insight of the study and life in the college. The programme is quite massive with over 160 students from more than 60 countries in the world, and they were all selected from hundreds of applicants by the GSS admission office.
今年夏天，我参加了伦敦帝国学院的全球暑期学校（GSS）。这个课程旨在使帝国理工的潜在学生更好地了解大学的学习和生活。这个课程有来自全球60多个国家的160多名学生参加，他们都是由GSS招生办公室从数百名申请人中选出的。
All of the students were divided into 3 streams consistent with their interests in the first week. I was in the engineering stream, and the other two were life science and physical science. The engineering stream was the biggest one with 60 people. In my opinion, it’s also the most exhausting one. We got to study in every engineering department in ICL, the time table was really intense. The campus is of medium size, but it’s still tiring to keep transferring between different departments.
在第一周，所有学生都按照自己的兴趣分为3个学习组。我加入了工程组，另外两个组是生命科学组和物理科学组。工程组是规模最大的，有60人。在我看来，它也是最累的。我们必须在帝国理工的每个工程学院学习，时间安排的非常紧张。虽然帝国理工校园规模不算大，但要在不同学院之间转移仍然很辛苦。
On the first day, we began with an introduction from the manager of all Imperial engineering departments. He told us what engineers do, and how Imperial college faculty teaches students. He compared the teaching style of ICL and other two prestigious universities in the UK. Instead of focusing on the theories, Imperial College focuses more on the practical problems that can really be encountered in the work after graduation.
第一天，帝国理工的工程学院的经理给我们介绍了学院。他告诉我们工程师的工作是什么样的，以及帝国理工是如何教授学生的。他比较了帝国理工和英国其他两所著名大学的教学风格。帝国理工学院不仅仅专注于理论，更是专注于毕业后工作中真正会遇到的实际问题。
The first engineering class we had was chemical engineering. The teacher threw us many challenging questions, all those questions differentiate from the ones we did in our school. They simulate real world problems. However, later in the class we went to the carbon capture plant inside the college, it was much funnier.
我们的第一门工程课是化学工程。老师向我们提出了许多具有挑战性的问题，所有这些问题都不同于我们在学校所学的问题，而是模拟现实世界中的问题。之后，我们去了大学内部的碳捕集工厂，这很有趣。
The earth science and engineering class was similar, instead of hairy calculations we were given many challenging geology questions on Mars. The mechanical engineering class, material science class and the design engineering class all began with a brief introduction of the course, and followed by some small competitions.
地球科学与工程学的课程是相似的，我们探讨了很多关于火星的地质问题。机械工程课，材料科学课和设计工程课都是以科目的简介为开始，然后进行了一些小型比赛。
The most surprising one was the civil engineering class, we did not talk a word about the problem engineers are facing, the teacher was teaching us economics, she tried to show us the connections between two subjects, but a lot of students didn’t have any knowledge of economics and just wasted their time. The civil engineering class really showed me, at university level, every subject has connections when it’s about solving the real-world problem.
最令人惊讶的是土木工程课，我们没有探讨工程师正在研究的课题，老师跟我们讲起了经济学，她向我们展示了经济和土木工程之间的联系。这对于很多没有任何经济学知识的学生来讲有些白费时间，所以这个课也说明了在大学阶段的学习当中，在解决现实问题时每个学科都是相互联系的。
The second week is quite different, all the people in the summer school were redistributed into 4 new themes-- robotics, food science, wearable tech, and space. It’s like the science week in our school but with shorter time and limited materials.I was in the robotics stream. Each group in the stream has 5 to 6 people, our purpose was to make a prototype of a robot that can help people or solve problem.
第二周的学习又是完全不同的，暑校的所有人都重新分配到4个新主题中：机器人技术，食品科学，可穿戴科技和太空。这个就像我们学校的科学周一样，但是时间更短，教材也很有限。我参加了机器人小组。每个小组中有5至6人，我们的目的是制造可以帮助人们或解决问题的机器人原型。
Apart from all the academic activities, the school also prepared some social activities. We watched The Lion King, and went to the west end musical. We also had a trip to Trafalgar square and a lovely cruise on river Thames.
除所有学术活动外，学校还提供了一些社交活动。我们看了《狮子王》，去西区看了音乐剧。我们还参观了特拉法加广场，并巡游了泰晤士河。
There was a whole day off in Brighton, but it was a very chilly day we didn’t stay at the pier for a long time, instead we played the broad in a café for the whole afternoon.
在布莱顿，我们有一整天的假期。但是那一天很冷，所以我们并没有在码头上待很久，我们整个下午都在咖啡馆里玩。
At the end of the summer school we had a formal dinner as a farewell, although it’s just a two-week programme, some people still got very emotional.
在暑校结束时，我们举行了正式的晚宴作为告别宴，尽管这只是一个为期两周的课程，但大家仍然有些不舍。
