"What do you think about your college life?" Someone asked Cai Han. "I'm too tired." "Then why you still keep on it?" "My beginner's mind encourages me to face up to every exhausting task." She chooses a road fraught with endured hardships, but she firmly believes that this is just what she wants.
Practice makes improvement
As a girl from remote mountainous areas, she can always confront with difficulties in her major, Civil Engineering, which even requires her to study courses fully delivered in English. However, her caution and courage help her to continue when encountering new experiences and unexpected obstacles. In her view, collective honor is far greater than personal glory. Every time before final exams, the whole class is organized by the monitor and her to review basic subject knowledge in order to get good grades.
Experience is the best teacher
Being a great civil engineer who can safeguard people's life has always been her dream. Through long-term persistence and teachers’ careful guidance, she has published one paper which further increases her enthusiasm for scientific research in her freshman year. Both success and failure are crucial to one’s growth. The experience of failure that she fought five days for the structural design competition made her pay more attention to the integration of knowledge and practice.
Rose given, fragrance in hand
Coming from a poor family, she has received many people's help and that strengthens her determination to give something back to the society. As a volunteer tutor, she has sacrificed almost all her weekends to help rural migrant workers' children with their homework. Besides, she spent more than 360 hours on volunteer service in the past two years, hoping to help more people out of trouble.
As time flies, every step she chooses is not easy, but she is willing to give a try in order to be her personal best. Like she said,” the hardest time is also the time I know that success is the nearest to me."
