"Actually, many of you here are my seniors.

So when the counselor told me to give a lecture on studying abroad at Yan University, I was very embarrassed.

I don't think I have that qualification.

There are qualifications.

After all, I have already achieved good results in applying to study abroad, and since all of you here will come to listen to this lecture, you must not have been able to achieve the desired results in your mind.

Today I want to tell you a little bit about it.

Presumably, when applying to study abroad, all the agencies tell you that the application essay is very important, and the recommendation letter is very important.

TOEFL, GRE, IELTS are important.

It's true that these are important, but I want you to be clear about the purpose behind these things.

Since I haven't applied for a master's degree, I don't know much about master's applications.

So here is a talk about applying for an overseas PhD.

In fact, the above things you need to prepare are all to prove two points, the first point is that you have enough ability to be competent for the doctoral work.

Ph.D. is work, not study.

You need to be productive in the corresponding niche, not educated.

The second point is that you need to prove that your communication is okay and OK.

Because you are going to study for a doctorate from a certain professor, it is very likely that you need to help him take some teaching assistant classes.

These teaching assistants are mainly exercises.

You need to explain to the undergraduate students the topics assigned by the professor.

At times like these, expression is especially important.

So all the materials you need to prepare revolve around these two points.

Here's a little secret, the direction of the PhD stage is very important.

You can go to the school you want to go to in advance, what papers a certain supervisor has published, and then ask for a letter of recommendation from his collaborator in China when applying.

This will help increase the success rate.

It's like saying that a stranger tells you something, and you are suspicious in your heart, but your classmate tells you something that is more credible than a stranger.

In addition, when writing the application essay, you can also write some thoughts about the professor's research direction......"

Zhou Xin still said a lot of dry goods.

These dry goods were explored by Chinese students with their personal experience in the major study abroad forums in later generations.

Of course, he did not hesitate to be used by Zhou Xin.

In later generations, some of the so-called high-end study abroad customized services are actually to help you find a professor with a certain status in the field and ask him to write a letter of recommendation for you.

Universities in Europe and the United States are playing more advanced, and even universities like Yale have launched eight-month master's programs specifically for Chinese students.

Tuition fees are also expensive.

Zhou Xin's lecture won unanimous praise from the students present, and Wang Qiang, who was listening to the lecture in the audience, had a new understanding of Zhou Xin after listening.

You must know that after Wang Qiang graduated from Yan University with a bachelor's degree, he worked as an English teacher in the Department of Foreign Languages of Yan University for six years.

In addition, those who learn foreign languages will have more opportunities to socialize, and in that era, English corners were all the rage in Yanjing, and Wang Qiang had a rich network in Yanjing.

Through his internal connections at Yan University, Wang Qiang obtained further information about Zhou Xin.

Even if Zhou Xin behaved well in the negotiation with Wang Qiang, Wang Qiang did not think that the other party could perform well in such an occasion.

Because facing one person and facing a group of people are completely different concepts.

As a result, Zhou Xin's calm performance, coupled with the content that did have dry goods, won the applause of the Yan University students present.

"Lao Yu is right, this Zhou Xin is really a talent.

Let him come to New Oriental to take classes, he doesn't need any training, and he can directly get on the job by familiarizing himself with the teaching materials.

Genius is indeed a genius in every way. ”

Since he has been at Yan University, he knows how difficult it is to be able to stay at the top of all the exams at Yan University.

"Student Zhou, I would like to ask, what if the other party is unwilling to ask for a letter of recommendation like a professor?"

A different professor asked. Or if you won't be taking the professor's class again, you can try stalking instead. ”

"Senior brother, I also want to apply to Berkeley later, we can exchange an email address, I have some questions I want to ask you in the future?"

"Probably not, I don't do free one-on-one knowledge sharing."

"I can pay for it."

"I also don't accept such an inefficient way to make money as one-to-one knowledge.

When you apply, you can ask about the specialized study abroad agencies, they are much more experienced than me. ”

No matter what era it is, there is no shortage of people who want to prostitute for nothing.

"Hello, junior brother."

Zhou Xin picked up the paper on the table and wrote a string of letters on it: "This is my mailbox, you can ask me by email if you have any questions." ”

The classmate next to him who just wanted to ask Zhou Xin hadn't left yet, he immediately turned his head and looked like a question mark: "Why can he be one-on-one for free?" ”

Zhou Xin: "If you are beautiful of the opposite sex, you can also get the same treatment. ”

Choked the boy so much that he couldn't speak, sometimes you are not afraid of losing face, and you are embarrassed by others.

After the long hair fluttered, the tiger pounced on the senior sister who was at least eight points higher, and her face turned red all of a sudden: "Okay, thank you, junior brother." The voice was so small that Zhou Xin couldn't hear it clearly.

Wang Qiang sat a little away, watching Zhou Xin talk and laugh in the middle of a circle of people.

Waiting for the students who asked the question to leave one after another, it was already half past five in the afternoon, and Wang Qiang stepped forward: "Senior brother, go, senior brother invites you to rub it, it can be regarded as practicing for you to leave Yanda soon." ”

Zhou Xindun felt that the people of this era were really simple, and he had to invite him to dinner at every turn.

When he was at Huaguo University of Science and Technology before, everyone was pure talk, and there were very few times when he actually had a treat.

"New Oriental is very good, and it has great development potential.

I'm optimistic about you. ”

At the dinner table, the topic revolved around Yanda and New Oriental.

Relationship-wise, the two are brothers from different colleges.

It's just that Wang Qiang is a little bit older than Zhou Xin.

"Huaguo is in a stage of rapid economic development, according to Maslow's needs theory, when people's physiological needs are satisfied, they will have higher pursuits.

The business of New Oriental is to meet people's higher needs and cognitive needs. ”

In later generations, anyone can drag two sentences of Maslow's needs theory with you, and not many people have heard of it in this era.

Wang Qiang hadn't heard of it.

But his instincts told him that this theory was important, so he was not afraid to be embarrassed and asked, "What is Maslow's theory of needs?" ”

After Wang Qiang came to New Oriental, he worked as an English teacher, because he taught well and was an alumnus of the same major as Yu Minhong, so Yu Minhong gradually assigned a part of the management work to him.