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出发和住宿:
路线是合肥(汽车)——南京(火车)——上海
合肥早上的那班去上海的火车停开了,夜车太累人,10点左右的时间太长。我和dalefang
两个人18日早上9点出发,从长途汽车站坐车到了南京中央门,时间是3小时整,高速公路
正在翻修,所以时间很长。下了汽车,立刻走到火车站(很近,步行7分钟)。有一班T71
3次空调特快(南京—上海),到的时间是下午4点一刻。出站,坐地铁到中山公园站换地
铁2号线到石门一路站下.出地铁,左转顺着南京西路走4分钟就到了梅龙镇Plaza。住在附
近一条胡同的招待所里,名字叫为群招待所,离梅龙镇Plaza的距离是走路50秒。说一下,
住的很近,但是梅龙镇附近有一个工地,昼夜施工,所以怕吵的同学还是不要在附近住了
。那个招待所档次不高,两个男生将就还行,能洗上澡,每人30元。
开工:
签证前一天晚上睡得不太好,由于比较兴奋和担心,睡不着就看球。早上5点多就醒了,接
着看电视。出去找了个早点铺,听老板口音是皖北人,吃了点饭。在屋里待到7点15,以为
还早,没想到出门一看签证排队已经老长了。大概快到8点了,我们开始check in。门卫问
你要护照看,在你的表上划个圈圈。然后10个人一组上电梯。过安检门,自己去一个机器
上领一个号码,我得是50,dalefang是49。等着按照次序到1,2,3号窗口去交必须材料,
包括护照、I-20、GT、交费手锯、表格、offer。Transcript不要。注意,填表时一定要把
所有的空格都填,没有的填“无”,或者NONE,但是千万别空着。受材料的chinese boy很
横,你添的不好,只给你一次机会改,然后再不行就让你重新预约,根本不跟你argue的机
会。我就看到一个女孩子被这个chinese boy拒了。
交完材料,找个位置坐下,不要吵不要闹,静静地等,否则有人会批评你。8点50时,很绅
士的大glassboy就提前开始上班了,接着年纪轻些的小glassboy也开始动工了。第一签而
且过了的是一个f2女生,旁边一个自称“华裔的美国公民”说,大glassboy很好说话,我
看也差不多。签证的号码是随机抽的,所以你就是领到1号,也不一定第一个签。VO的每一
个窗口都会闪烁一个要签的号码,每个人都目不转睛的看。感觉两个glassboy都很nice,
倒是yymm不太妙,脾气很大的样子。Jfmm呢?我碰得就是jfmm!!!
Jfmm连据了6个人,只放了一个探亲的老两口。这时轮到49号的dalefang,他压力很大哦。
Jfmm问了很多问题,搞得dalefang说话越来越不自然。我在一旁直担心,因为下个可能就
是我。问了6分钟之后,dalefang居然过了,下个果然是我。上!
M: 我 V:jfmm
M:Good morning!
V: (微笑)Good morning
M: He is from the same Universtity, and we are going to the same
university. H
e will be my roommate. (先声夺人,让他过了,也得让我过吧!)
V:that is very good……why are u going to Michigan?
M: (我只有一个offer,不去能行吗??)I have contacted my advisor, and I am
famil
iar with his research field. I am very interested in it. He encourage me to
ap
ply and thought me to be qualified for the phd program. So he offered me.
V:(开始在ds上写字)What will you do in your field? Have you got your
researc
h plan?
M: (她可能是问我有没有书面的plan,我没带,但是我说yes。注意你如果没有带材料,也
不能说no,没有书面的就口头上描述。)Yes,you know my specialty is electromagneti
cs. We are developing some fast computational schemes, and apply them to
the a
nalysis of high-speed circuit.
V: What is high-speed circuit?
M: my advisor is having a program related to VLSI.
V: VLSI?what is it? (真是不放过蛛丝马迹)
M: (开始糊涂了)Very...(Verilog???)...Very large scale integrated
circuit....
.
V: (写字)have you got any information about your professor?
M迫不及待)yes, I got the printed webpage, and here are some emails we contac
ted.
V:……(没听见)pay your schooling?
M:my advisor will pay the tuition and the monthly stipend.
V: Good....(她只看了一眼,然后就开始找东西,找了一张表格,放在桌子下边偷偷看,
此时我 很紧张。看完了之后,她在ds表上继续写东西)Have u got a resume?
M:yes,it is here.
V: ok....(开始看了,很仔细)What is the summer program in bejing? (指着一行问
我)
M: the summer program?...(我早就有点担心,见她还问,更毛了。开始晕了。不过突
然记起来了,是北京实习的事!当然不能照实说:我们到所里蹭饭,逛王府井street,3天
逛了4个所,然后到处 tour)It was in the ...academy of sciences of china (ft,
中
科院说错了)we talked with some professors in the institution and received
some
basic scientific training. That is it.
V: (还是写字,然后再看resume)What is the radio association?
M我后悔当时把什么杂七杂八的业余无线电协会、科考协会什么地都加到resume 中,这
下可有锻炼英语的机会了。编词!!)We broadcast some news and music within the c
ampus, ....and some English programs to improve our English...
V: (在我说话的时候根本就不听,又仔仔细细的看完了一遍我的ps)So can you tell me
more about the application of Electro...Electromagnetics?
M: yes, you know the radio waves.(jfmm 点头)the Electromagnetics waves is
the
media which the radio program is transmitted, ...and some wireless signals
ar
e tansmitted.....there are a lot of applications,like Electromagnetic
imaging.
And the analysis of circuits is just a branch of the applications.
V: ....would you go to ....eleven....visa?
M; Thank you very much!
感觉jfmm很能问,如果你有research plan ,一定要带上。她看材料很细。不过,我后边
的一个交大的mm只被问了3句就被jfmm过了,真是……
回来做的是火车到南京(上海南京之间的火车n多),汽车回合肥。在南区隔离3天,伙食
没有想象的好,每顿都吃不饱。不能出门,没法买水果,所以建议带些水果,省得3天下来
满嘴的溃疡。很无聊的,天天只有电视看,电视剧只有婚外恋和三角恋。不过,最近去上
海的人很多,估计过些天很热闹。大家可以窜窜。
祝师姐yezic顺利过关!Good luck to all!