Sara Tabin is an Psychology major at Yale UniversitySara Tabin是耶鲁大学心理学专业的学生
I decided I wanted to attend Yale while visiting my sister, who was an undergraduate there when I was five years old. As a child, Yale meant visits to the Peabody Museum, carrot cake from Claire’s Corner Copia and ivy-covered stone walls. In high school I went to see the campus again, and was impressed by the kindness of the students I met and the opportunities that Yale could provide.
姐姐在我五岁的时候去了耶鲁大学读本科，后来我去那找她玩的时候决定：就申请这所学校吧。对一个孩子而言，耶鲁等同于皮博迪博物馆、Claire’s Corner Copia的胡萝卜蛋糕和爬满常春藤的石墙。念高中时我又去看了校园，此行遇到的善良学生和耶鲁能够为学生提供的资源条件令我印象深刻。
Although receiving my acceptance letter filled me with joy and excitement, Yale was initiallynot what I expected. I had trouble making friends and felt lonely and homesick for most of my first semester. I frequently compared myself to my peers and began to feel depressed about my relative lack of accomplishments and skills, a feeling exacerbated by numerous rejections from clubs and fellowships. I knew that attending Yale was a privilege and felt guilty for not fully appreciating it.
虽然受到录取通知书让我开心兴奋，耶鲁大学最初并非如我所想。第一学期的大部分时间我很难交到朋友，常觉得孤单想家。我常把自己和同龄人作比较，并开始对自己成就和技能的相对匮乏而感到沮丧，这种感觉因参加俱乐部和申请奖学金被拒而日益加剧。我知道能做一名耶鲁的学生是我的荣幸，我为自己没有充分享受这一身份而感到内疚。
I chose to focus on psychology, in part because of a class I took in my first year with Professor Karen Wynn, whose work at Yale’s Baby Lab had piqued my interest in high school. Her course focused on cognition in infants and animals and I found myself interested by everything I learned. Last semester I enrolled in social and abnormal psychology classes and found myself eager to learn more.
后来我选择专注于心理学，部分原因是我第一年上了Karen Wynn教授的一堂课，她在在耶鲁大学婴儿实验室的工作激起了我高中时的兴趣点。她的课程侧重婴儿和动物的认知，我发现自己对课堂所学一切都有兴趣，上学期上过社会心理学和变态心理学课程之后，我渴望学习了解更多。
It took time, but I have found friends and activities that I love at Yale. Last year I lived on campus with seven incredible suitemates who helped me feel like Yale was home. I am a Yale Daily News reporter, a Harvest pre-orientation leader and a member of the Party of the Left and have met amazing and kind friends through these organisations too. I have not stopped receiving rejections, but I am okay with not being the best.
虽然费了点时间，但我在耶鲁找到了我喜欢的朋友和活动。去年我和七个经历传奇的室友住在小院里，他们让我感觉耶鲁是我的家。我是耶鲁日报记者，是Harvest公司预定向领导者，也是左翼党派成员，通过这些组织我结识了许多令人惊叹又和蔼可亲的朋友，我依然被不断拒绝，但我已经学会接受如何面对自己的不完美。
--Source: Bloomberg--文章来源：《彭博商业周刊》
the Peabody Museum 皮博迪自然历史博物馆位于美国康涅狄格州纽黑文的耶鲁大学内，由慈善家乔治·皮博迪（George Peabody）建立于1866年，并以他的名字命名，为美国最古老、最大、馆藏最丰富的大学自然历史博物馆之一，因收藏有大量的人类和鸟类化石以及古生物化石而知名。
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