Spoken English
1. What can you tell me about yourself?
Good morning, teachers. I am glad to be here for this interview. My name is XXX, I am 22 years old. My hometown is ZZZ, PPP Province. I will graduate from XXX University in July this year, and majoring in Software Engineering.
Both of my parents are farmers. Just like them, I strive to be an honest and modest boy. I always believe we should sense any change for self-development, and we will have good prospect.
In the past three years, most of my time has been spent on study and campus activities. I study hard, my grades are class first and my average grade of 89.72 in three years. I received a number of honors such as national scholarship, national encouragement scholarship and three-virtue students. In November last year, as the only student representative to Peking University, I attended the 80th anniversary of the Southwest United University.
During my undergraduate period, I mainly focused on web application development. I also learned about Machine Learning and Deep Learning. I eventually found that I was interested in Deep Reinforcement Learning, so I very much hope to study this direction at YYY University.
That’s all about me, thanks for your listening.
2. Describe your personality?
Generally speaking, I am usually a bit introverted, but also because of this I will be more serious about my work and will be more careful about what I can do to make it more perfect. I think such a character is suitable for scientific research.
总体来说，我平时稍微有点内向，但也正因为这样所以我做事会更认真，而且会更细心，对事情做的让它更完善。我想这样的性格做科研还是合适的。
3. What is your greatest strength?
I think my greatest strength lies in attention to details and a sense of responsibility. Once I initiate a project, I always try my personal best to make a thorough preparation so as to ensure an optimal effect.
我觉得我最大的优点就体现在做事认真负责，一丝不苟，一旦开始一个项目，我总是尽个人所能去做一个充分的准备，以确保最佳效果。
4. What is your greatest weakness?
Well, I would pay great attention to details. So at the same time, it is easy for me to get struct in some dead end, or take significantly unnecessary pains to study some minor or even trivial parts.
好吧，我对细节非常在意，但同样的我很容易陷入死胡同，钻牛角尖，在一些细枝末节的地方浪费大量时间和精力。
5. Describe <u>one of</u> your hobbies?
In my spare time, I enjoy reading literature novels, Usually find some good books to buy reading in Dangdang, Amazon or Douban. Then write a book review, notes in Jianshu. Secondly, I also enjoy long-distance jogging, Coz it not only helps me to keep fit, but exercise my stamina. What is more important, it helps me to get relaxed and offers me a great chance to temporarily get away from my academic workload.
在我的空闲时间，我喜欢阅读文学小说，一般会在当当、亚马逊或者豆瓣找一些好评的书籍购买阅读。然后在简书上写写书评、笔记。其次，我还喜欢长跑，因为他不仅能锻炼身体，还可以磨练意志；更重要的是它可以使我精神放松，暂时脱离学术工作。
6. What’s your favorite sports?
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7. Where are your from?
I come from ZZZ, PPP Province, and will graduate from XXX University.
我来自PPPZZZ，毕业于XXX 大学。
8. How do you like your hometown?
Firstly, my hometown is basically no pollution, so the environment is very good. Secondly, my hometown has a pleasant climate and is very suitable for living. Finally, there are many ethnic minorities in my hometown, I can access to the diverse national culture.
首先，我的家乡基本没什么污染，所以环境很好；其次，我的家乡气候宜人，非常适合居住；最后，我的家乡有很多的少数民族，能接触到多元的民族文化。
9. Tell me something about the customs of your hometown?
Water-Splashing Festival is the New Year in the Dai calendar, and also a festival with the largest influence and maximum participating population among lots of minority festivals in PPP Province. In this festival, They will begin to splash water with one another for wishing luck, happiness and health. The more water one person is sprinkled, the more luck he receives, and the happier he will be.
泼水节是傣族的新年，也是PPP省众多少数民族节日中影响力最大，参与人口最多的节日。 在这个节日里，他们将开始互相泼水，祝运气，快乐和健康。 一个人撒上的水越多，他获得的运气越多，他会更幸福。
10. Could you tell me something about your family?
My family has X people, (grandpa, grandma, father, mother, brother and me). My Grandparents at home, my parents are YYY, my brother is ZZZ, And I am about to get a bachelor's degree and start my post graduate study.
我的家中有X口人，分别为(爷爷、奶奶、爸爸、妈妈、弟弟和我)，我的父母都是YYY，弟弟ZZZ，而我即将取得学士学位，准备开始我的研究生学习生涯。
11. What do you think about living together with your parents?
I think living with my parents offers a lot of benefits, like they take care of everything for me, so I can focus on my study better, however, if I don’t live with them, I can enjoy better freedom and exercise my independence, so given the choice, I will still choose to live alone.
我觉得和父母住的话父母可以照顾我的任何事，这样我就能更加专注学业，但是不与父母一起可以自由自在的生活，也可以锻炼自己的独立能力，因此给我这个选择，我还是选择独立生活。
12. What is your major? How do you like your major?
Today, the software has already become science and the technique each realms indispensability part. The evolution of the software technique gets behind with the hardware technique far and far, software can't be reused and the fertility lowly etc. problems excessively. However, software engineering is getting more and more attention, I believe in the near future, software engineering will make better progress. I am very interested in programming, so I really like my profession.
今天，软件已经成为科学技术各个领域，工业和社会各个部分不可缺少的重要组成部分。软件技术远远落后于硬件技术，软件不能重用，开发出现大量错误和低生产率等问题。而软件工程也越来越受到关注，我相信在不久的将来，软件工程将取得更好的进展。我对编程非常感兴趣，所以我非常喜欢我的专业。
13. Have you ever worked during the vacation?
Yeah, it is my habit to taking part time or internship during summer or winter vacation. I think taking part time is a good way for us to be financially independent and accumulate social experience.
是的，我习惯在寒暑假期间参加一些专业相关的兼职或实习。 我认为兼职工作对于我们实现财务独立，积累社会经验。
14. When and where did you graduate? What qualifications have you obtained?
I will graduate from XXX University in July this year., I always tried my best to live up to my school motto of “Faithful and Fortitude”. And I think I have obtained qualities like honesty, modesty, diligence and attention to details.
我即将于今年7月毕业于XXX 大学，我尽自己的努力去践行我们学校的校训“刚毅坚卓”。我认为我拥有诚信、谦虚、勤奋的好品质和关注细节的能力。
15. What does friendship mean to you and what kind of people do you make friend with?
Friendship is the most indispensable part in my life. I have a lot of friends, and they share happiness and sorrows with me. I especially would like to make friends with people who are optimistic, humorous and smart.
友谊是我生命中最不可缺少的部分。 我有很多朋友，他们和我分享快乐和悲伤。 我特别想与那些乐观，幽默和聪明的人交朋友。
16. What impressed you most when you were at university?
I think the biggest impact on me was to Peking University to attend the 80th anniversary of the Southwest United University last November, the meeting came a large number of well-known alumni, the Nobel Prize Yang Zhenning, the National Science and Technology Award winner Zheng Zhemin recalled and described the hard conditions at that time and everyone's efforts made me realize that there is a better environment and we also need to work harder to serve the country in this day.
我觉得对我影响最大的事就是去年11月到北京大学参加西南联大80周年校庆，大会上来了众多的知名校友，诺贝尔奖的杨振宁，国家最高科学技术奖获得者郑哲敏等回忆并讲述了当时的学习条件的艰苦以及大家的努力，让我知道在如今这个时代，有了更好的环境，我们也需要更加努力，报效祖国。
17. Why did you choose our university?
Well, Firstly，YYY University is a really prestigious institute, it boasts of along history, good reputation and rigorous academic atmosphere. Secondly, college teachers are also very capable, Often see the college teacher's open source project in GitHub and Open course in Netease open course. Finally, Seniors are also very enthusiastic, often give us answers to questions, to introduce our professional knowledge. So I choose YYY University since last year and I didn’t consider other schools. I very much hope to study at YYY University.
首先，YYY大学是一所真正有威望的学府，他历史悠久、名气大、学分严谨。其次，学院的老师也很有能力，经常在GitHub看到学院老师的开源项目、在网易公开课看到学院老师的公开课。最后，学长也非常的热情，经常给我们解答疑问，给我们介绍专业知识。所以我从去年开始考研时选定了YYY大学后就没有考虑过其他学校。我非常希望能在YYY大学读研。
18. What do you intend to do after you finish post graduate study?
I haven’t thought that far after graduation. So my plan is to study well in my post graduate years and make some academic contribution in my field if possible, then, after graduation, I want to study for a doctorate, perhaps, to work in a big company.
毕业之后的事我还没及那么遥远，我的计划是在研究生期间努力学习，尽可能在自己的领域做一些学术上的贡献。毕业后，我想攻读博士学位，不过也许是去一家大公司工作。
19. What kind of features does the best university possess in your opinion?
In my opinion, YYY University is the paradigm of best university on earth. It enjoys a really prestigious reputation, possessing the most advanced research facilities and best professors and students in China, the academic atmosphere is rigorous and democratic, plus, the campus is charming and beautiful.
在我看来，YYY大学是典型的国际一流型大学，他声名远扬，拥有最先进的研究设备，中国最好的教授和最优秀的学生，学分严谨但是民主，另外，校园景色很迷人、很美丽。
20. What difficulties do you think you’ll encounter in your studies?
There may be challenges, like the competition will be harsher, students who get admitted by YYY University must be elite students selected from their own schools, so each of us will have to face stronger academic rivals.
可能会有挑战，比如竞争会更加激烈，被YYY大学录取的学生必须是从他们自己的学校中挑选出来的精英学生，所以我们每个人都必须面对更强大的学术竞争对手。
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个人考研经验分享: https://www.jianshu.com/p/3c6939a486a8
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