第一篇:伯克利演講
“伯里克利葬禮演說(shuō)辭”介紹
An Introduction to Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Thucydides did not belong to the generations of Empire builders.He was born just after them, and his personal memory went no further back than the peace of 445.So he shared the ideas of the age with his older contemporaries, but in a less instinctive fashion.Like them, he knew that he was
living in great times.But, more thoughtful than they, he desired to record them;for he knew, as they knew if they ever lay awake thinking, that this glory could not last and that posterity would be glad to read of it.But he little suspected how brief the blossom would be, or that, in his own short lifetime, he would yet see autumn and midwinter.Yet it was in midwinter, when the Long Walls had been dismantled and the Acropolis had
housed a Spartan garrison, that he wrote his eulogy of the city in the form(what form could be more appropriate?)of a speech over her noble dead.It is not, of course, the speech which Pericles
delivered, or even, as the speaker hints, the kind of speech usually given on such occasions.There is too little in it about noble ancestors, and too much about the present day.But there is no reason to doubt that Thucudides had heard his hero speak, most probably more than once, over the city’s fallen soldiers, and could recall in after years among his most sacred recollections, “the cadence of his voice, the movement of his hand,” and the solemn hush of the vast audience, broken only by “the sobbing of some mother of the dead.” We may feel with confidence that he has given us, with the added colour of his own experience, not merely the inner thought but much of the language of Pericles.So that here we can listen, as in all fine works of interpretation, to two great spirits at once;and when we have learnt to use our ears we can sometimes hear them both, Pericles’ voice coming through, a little faint and thin after the lapse of years, above the deep tones of the historian.The speech is written, if ever writing was, “not in ink but in blood.” For with Thucydides, more perhaps than with any other great writer, there is not a word but tells.“You must read and mark him line by line till you can read between the lines as clearly as in them.There are few thinkers with so many ideas brooding in the background.” All great art is like a ghost seeking to express more than it can utter and beckoning to regions beyond.This is as true in history, which deals with nations, as in poetry or any more personal art.That is why the Funeral Speech, written of a small provincial city in the untried youth of the world, will always find an echo whenever men and nations are living true to themselves, whether in the trenches of Mukden or in the cemetery of Gettysburg.Pericles and
Abraham Lincoln were not very much alike.But common needs beget a common language;and great statesmen, like great poets, speak to one another from peak to peak.“伯里克利葬禮演說(shuō)辭”介紹
修昔底德并不屬于帝國(guó)締造者那幾代人。他生得恰比他們要晚,其個(gè)人記憶不會(huì)回溯到445年和約之前。因而,他與更年長(zhǎng)的同代人共同擁有著那個(gè)時(shí)代的理想,但在方式上卻不如前輩們那樣本能。與他們相似的是,他知道自己生活在偉大的時(shí)代。然而,比他們更深思熟慮的是,他想記錄他們的業(yè)績(jī);因?yàn)樗肋@種輝煌不會(huì)持久,而他的前輩們?nèi)绻谇逍褧r(shí)思考也會(huì)知道這一點(diǎn),而后代們會(huì)樂(lè)于閱讀對(duì)這個(gè)輝煌時(shí)代的記載。但他幾乎未曾料到,帝國(guó)的輝煌竟會(huì)如此地曇花一現(xiàn),或者說(shuō),在自己的短促生涯中,竟會(huì)親眼目睹到帝國(guó)的“秋日”和“隆冬”。
然而,就在這“隆冬”時(shí)節(jié),當(dāng)長(zhǎng)城被拆毀,雅典衛(wèi)城被斯巴達(dá)駐軍戍守時(shí),他以悼念其城市的高貴死者的演說(shuō)辭方式(還有什么更恰如其分的方式呢?)撰寫(xiě)城市的頌歌。當(dāng)然,這不是伯里克利發(fā)表的演說(shuō),甚至,如演講者所暗示的,也非此種場(chǎng)合通常要發(fā)表的那種演說(shuō)。演講中有關(guān)其高貴祖先的描述微乎其微,而有關(guān)當(dāng)代的內(nèi)容卻十分豐富。然而沒(méi)有理由懷疑,修昔底德曾親耳聆聽(tīng)過(guò)他心目中的英雄為悼念城市的陣亡將士所做的演講,很可能不只一次,而且多年后還能從其最珍視的記憶中回想起“他那抑揚(yáng)頓挫的聲調(diào)和手勢(shì)”,以及廣大聽(tīng)眾所保持的那種莊嚴(yán)肅穆的氣氛,只是間或被“死者母親的抽泣聲”所打斷。我們相信能體察到,除了憑其自身的閱歷所添加的潤(rùn)色外,他不僅傳遞給我們很多伯里克利的語(yǔ)言,而且還有其內(nèi)在的思想。因而我們?cè)诖四軌蝰雎?tīng)到,就如同在所有闡釋性的杰作中所能聽(tīng)到的那樣,兩個(gè)偉大靈魂共同發(fā)出的聲音;而當(dāng)我們學(xué)會(huì)使用自己的耳朵時(shí),有時(shí)能夠同時(shí)捕捉到兩人的聲音,在歷史家深沉的聲音之上傳來(lái)伯里克利的隨著時(shí)光流逝而變得略顯微弱和稀疏是聲音。
這篇演講辭“不是用墨水而是用血”寫(xiě)成的,如果確曾有這樣的作品被寫(xiě)出來(lái)的話(huà)。因?yàn)閷?duì)修昔底德而言,或許比其他任何偉大作家尤甚,此篇文章可謂字字珠璣?!澳惚仨氈鹦虚喿x和批注,直到你像閱讀每行文字本身那樣清晰地讀出字里行間的意思。很少有思想家能在文章的背景中孕育出如此豐富的思想?!彼袀ゴ蟮乃囆g(shù)作品都像一個(gè)幽靈,力求表達(dá)超出其所能言表的內(nèi)容并傳播得更遠(yuǎn)。無(wú)論詩(shī)歌還是更加個(gè)人化的藝術(shù),還是以各民族為研究對(duì)象的歷史作品,盡皆如此。這就是在人類(lèi)質(zhì)樸無(wú)華的童年時(shí)代以一個(gè)地方小城市為題材的葬禮演說(shuō)辭何以總能在按自己本色生活的人們和民族中引發(fā)共鳴,無(wú)論是在奉天的戰(zhàn)壕中,還是在葛底斯堡的公墓里。伯里克利和亞伯拉罕·林肯并非十分相象。然而,共同的需要產(chǎn)生了共同的語(yǔ)言;而偉大的政治家們,有如偉大的詩(shī)人們,在一個(gè)個(gè)顛峰之間彼此交談著。
第二篇:伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院
伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院位于馬薩諸塞州的波士頓。校區(qū)周邊治安很好,學(xué)生可以全面感受波士頓的音樂(lè)和文化。校區(qū)鄰近麻省理工學(xué)院和哈佛大學(xué),從學(xué)校步行即可到著名的波士頓交響樂(lè)大廳。
伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院是美國(guó)最優(yōu)秀的音樂(lè)學(xué)院之一,它是一所致力于現(xiàn)代流行音樂(lè)教學(xué)與研究的學(xué)院,這也是它與傳統(tǒng)音樂(lè)學(xué)院的區(qū)別。它歷史悠久、規(guī)模巨大,在它60多年的歷史上,造就了來(lái)自75個(gè)國(guó)家的3萬(wàn)多名音樂(lè)家。伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院擁有2700多名在校生和300多名教職員工。然而,和大規(guī)模的傳統(tǒng)音樂(lè)院校相比,它并不富有。它的4500萬(wàn)美元的預(yù)算以及近8000萬(wàn)美元的捐助基金令人不屑一顧。
這是唯一一所將主要課程設(shè)置為現(xiàn)代音樂(lè)的音樂(lè)院校。其他音樂(lè)學(xué)院也會(huì)開(kāi)設(shè)少數(shù)現(xiàn)代音樂(lè)課程,但是它們財(cái)力、人力配置的第一需求是放在傳統(tǒng)音樂(lè)上的。伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院是第一個(gè)把爵士樂(lè)作為受尊重的學(xué)術(shù)性課題來(lái)研究的音樂(lè)學(xué)院。
與音樂(lè)的不解之緣
“伯克利”這個(gè)名字與學(xué)院傳奇般的歷史有不解之緣?,F(xiàn)任院長(zhǎng)利·伯克的父親勞倫斯·伯克于1996年去世,享年87歲。他是一位鋼琴師,出生于條件艱苦的波士頓西區(qū),并在那里長(zhǎng)大。勞倫斯靠在當(dāng)?shù)匚钑?huì)樂(lè)隊(duì)演奏維持學(xué)業(yè),是學(xué)校里穿著最講究的學(xué)生。他常常在趕到學(xué)校上課時(shí)還穿著頭一夜演奏時(shí)穿的小禮服。在大蕭條的陰影中,他畢業(yè)了,卻發(fā)現(xiàn)除了音樂(lè)——這個(gè)可靠的朋友和捐助者可以使他勉強(qiáng)維持生計(jì)外,沒(méi)有他這個(gè)剛畢業(yè)的建筑工程師可做的工作。他起初在波士頓,爾后在紐約,作為鋼琴師和樂(lè)曲改編在全國(guó)廣播公司和哥倫比亞廣播公司演播室樂(lè)團(tuán)供職。直到二戰(zhàn)爆發(fā),勞倫斯一直在音樂(lè)生涯中奮斗。大戰(zhàn)中,他回到波士頓,作為一名工程師為賴(lài)特翁公司設(shè)計(jì)雷達(dá)系統(tǒng)。
在戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)結(jié)束后,音樂(lè)的才華在他身上依然不減當(dāng)年。他放棄了工程師的工作,決心當(dāng)一名作曲教師。他成立了席林格學(xué)校,并稱(chēng)它為“一人音樂(lè)教室”。他的事業(yè)很快興盛起來(lái)。不久,他就增添了表演課,這立刻成為所有課程中聽(tīng)課人數(shù)最多的課程。爵士樂(lè)在那個(gè)時(shí)代受到空前歡迎,勞倫斯講授的正是爵士樂(lè)。
勞倫斯在搬入波士頓后灣地區(qū)紐·貝里街的一所褐色砂石房子之后,開(kāi)始聘請(qǐng)專(zhuān)業(yè)音樂(lè)家從事教學(xué)。學(xué)校需要一個(gè)新名稱(chēng),因?yàn)閯趥愃埂げ俗约旱慕虒W(xué)方式已經(jīng)超越了席林格的教學(xué)法。但是,叫學(xué)校為“伯克學(xué)校”又不上口。一天早上,一個(gè)助教沖進(jìn)來(lái),說(shuō)他夢(mèng)到伯克以他十歲的兒子利的名字命名這所學(xué)校,“伯克利”的名字就這樣定下來(lái)了。
成長(zhǎng)的伯克利
到50年代,勞倫斯·伯克的小學(xué)校已經(jīng)開(kāi)始從全國(guó),甚至海外招收學(xué)生。顯然,不管伯克是否情愿,他是一下子絆倒在別人從未見(jiàn)過(guò)的“金磚”上了。爵士樂(lè),當(dāng)時(shí)已經(jīng)被一致公認(rèn)為美國(guó)的唯一民族藝術(shù)形式,正在成為一種重要產(chǎn)業(yè)。但是,沒(méi)有一所專(zhuān)門(mén)學(xué)校講授它。伯克利的挑戰(zhàn)是很明顯的:一年接一年地培養(yǎng)一批批合格的音樂(lè)專(zhuān)業(yè)人才,就像西邊幾英里遠(yuǎn)的哈佛商學(xué)院培養(yǎng)工商管理碩士生一樣。一位薩克斯管教師說(shuō):“學(xué)斗牛,要去西班牙;學(xué)音樂(lè),就來(lái)伯克利?!?/p>
就像冬日的疾風(fēng),伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院的課程設(shè)置、教職工和在校生的人數(shù)隨著一座座建筑的興建迅速增長(zhǎng)。1962年,勞倫斯將學(xué)校由私立改為非盈利性質(zhì),并開(kāi)設(shè)了語(yǔ)言、藝術(shù)、科學(xué)、歷史以及其他文化課程,以便符合評(píng)定要求。到1970年,伯克利已成為一所完全正規(guī)的四年制大學(xué)。即便如此,伯克利很難聲稱(chēng)它擁有一座校園,因?yàn)閹缀鯖](méi)有人會(huì)把它的那些形形色色的、分散的,并且根本不般配的建筑當(dāng)做高等教育學(xué)府,而且這些地方明顯缺少通常大學(xué)所擁有的一些環(huán)境設(shè)施:草坪、樹(shù)木、仿都鐸式建筑、體育館、球隊(duì)和聯(lián)誼會(huì)等,但是,它擁有音樂(lè)。
各種膚色和身高的音樂(lè)迷們?nèi)宄扇壕奂谧呃然蛏暗[鋪成的過(guò)道上用各種語(yǔ)言交談。我們可以見(jiàn)到一位白人學(xué)生坐在臺(tái)階上,吹著大號(hào),正在認(rèn)真地做音階練習(xí)。就在他旁邊,一個(gè)黑人女孩正用裝了弱音器的小號(hào)做著同樣的練習(xí)。街那邊,一名鼓手蹲在過(guò)道上流暢地?fù)舸蛑?jié)奏,等候輪到自己進(jìn)入教室演奏。在充滿(mǎn)煙味的咖啡廳,一名日本女長(zhǎng)笛手杰米·盧羅正在旁若無(wú)人地一邊唱譜,一邊在空中比畫(huà)難以捉摸的音符。
伯克利由多個(gè)國(guó)家和種族構(gòu)成的在校生群體成為充滿(mǎn)異國(guó)情調(diào)的一景。將近40%的學(xué)生來(lái)自國(guó)外。一名三年級(jí)的德國(guó)低音提琴手說(shuō):“我認(rèn)為伯克利在德國(guó)比在美國(guó)更有名。有了伯克利的學(xué)位,回去后就一切不成問(wèn)題了?!?/p>
搖滾樂(lè)手和爵士樂(lè)手占了學(xué)生人數(shù)的大多數(shù),其他專(zhuān)業(yè)的學(xué)生數(shù)則介于兩者之間。如果說(shuō)大部分學(xué)生到校時(shí)是帶著學(xué)習(xí)表演的基本想法的話(huà),四年的課程設(shè)置則擴(kuò)大了他們的眼界。他們?cè)趯W(xué)習(xí)中逐漸分散到學(xué)校的四個(gè)大的專(zhuān)業(yè)分支:表演、音樂(lè)技術(shù)、專(zhuān)業(yè)寫(xiě)作和專(zhuān)業(yè)教育。伯克利總共向十幾個(gè)專(zhuān)業(yè)的學(xué)生提供600門(mén)課程,涉及范圍從歌曲寫(xiě)作、改編到電影配樂(lè)的創(chuàng)作、音樂(lè)合成、音樂(lè)商業(yè)經(jīng)營(yíng)和音樂(lè)療法。
課程設(shè)置范圍的擴(kuò)大和多樣化,反映了當(dāng)今音樂(lè)領(lǐng)城的錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜。伯克利的主要功能曾一度是向大型樂(lè)團(tuán)提供演奏員,為此曾獲得諸如“和弦產(chǎn)地”和“文憑工廠”這樣的稱(chēng)號(hào),但是,那個(gè)時(shí)代早已一去不返了。如今,學(xué)生們?nèi)栽诖底鄻?lè)器、做發(fā)聲練習(xí),但這些只是他們工作的一部分。因?yàn)椴死聦?shí)上已經(jīng)是一個(gè)培養(yǎng)音樂(lè)人才的價(jià)值數(shù)十億美元的系統(tǒng)。這一系統(tǒng)越來(lái)越依靠電子技術(shù)。如果你認(rèn)為學(xué)習(xí)音樂(lè)所需要的只是一件樂(lè)器和一臺(tái)錄音機(jī),那就錯(cuò)了,請(qǐng)到伯克利教學(xué)大樓的實(shí)驗(yàn)室去看看就明白了。實(shí)驗(yàn)室中到處是一排排的儀表板、混頗臺(tái)、電子合成器、集錦唱片只讀光盤(pán)驅(qū)動(dòng)器、聲片剪接器以及許多說(shuō)不出名堂的東西??傊阍谶@里可以見(jiàn)到總價(jià)值在1000萬(wàn)美元以上的儀器設(shè)備。
信息技術(shù)部負(fù)貴人馬什坐在一臺(tái)通過(guò)音樂(lè)數(shù)字接口和一臺(tái)電子合成器相連的計(jì)算機(jī)旁,他隨便編了一段小旋律為我們演示作曲軟件的魅力。他先編出鋼琴的旋律,再加進(jìn)鼓、低音提琴、薩克斯管、長(zhǎng)笛和弦樂(lè)。只用幾秒鐘,僅僅通過(guò)操作一只鼠標(biāo),就完成了一支真正的管弦樂(lè)曲。再按一下鼠標(biāo),打印機(jī)就打印出了他創(chuàng)作的樂(lè)譜。他認(rèn)為:“這些機(jī)器并不會(huì)改變創(chuàng)作,只是改變了創(chuàng)作手段而已,曲子的創(chuàng)作還是由人來(lái)完成的?!? 每一個(gè)學(xué)生都被要求必修一門(mén)音樂(lè)技術(shù)課。像戴維·馬什這樣的老師要學(xué)得更深更廣一些,要在音樂(lè)的電子合成方面為自己打下深厚的基礎(chǔ)?!澳壳埃鳛閷?zhuān)業(yè)音樂(lè)家,你不僅需要基礎(chǔ)音樂(lè)技能,也需要具備技術(shù)技能。”音樂(lè)技術(shù)部主任唐普魯茨說(shuō),“我們甚至在為還不存在的職業(yè)培養(yǎng)人才?!?/p>
專(zhuān)注于音樂(lè),專(zhuān)注于學(xué)習(xí)
“音樂(lè)家不一定非要挨餓。”這是勞倫斯·伯克最常說(shuō)的話(huà)之一。一個(gè)音樂(lè)家可以是生活在藝術(shù)虛幻世界的創(chuàng)造者,但是他同樣需要生活技能。伯克利不僅教音樂(lè),同時(shí)還教學(xué)生穿小禮服時(shí)不要穿棕色鞋子,在文雅的婚禮上應(yīng)該用什么樣的節(jié)奏演奏,如何使自己的收支平衡,以及為什么在特約表演會(huì)上和錄音制作時(shí)要準(zhǔn)時(shí)到場(chǎng)等。
對(duì)于那些偶然到來(lái)的觀光客來(lái)說(shuō),最令他們吃驚的是學(xué)生們的刻苦勤奮。那些尋找地方色彩的旅游者發(fā)現(xiàn),這里幾乎沒(méi)有紋前額的學(xué)生,也沒(méi)有戴鼻環(huán)的,奇裝異服的青年在這里可能比在哈佛還要少。在許多文科院校校園中常見(jiàn)的星期四至星期五的通宵聚會(huì)在這里都尋不到蹤跡。吸毒和學(xué)校紀(jì)律從來(lái)不是問(wèn)題。伯克利的學(xué)生,或者是因?yàn)樘J(rèn)真,或者是因?yàn)樘F,或者兩者兼而有之,他們不能白白浪費(fèi)時(shí)光。
許多年輕自負(fù)的新生,尤其是吉他手,常常是靠自學(xué)起家的,大概有半數(shù)以上的一年級(jí)學(xué)生在開(kāi)學(xué)時(shí)還不會(huì)讀譜,這是他們的一個(gè)嚴(yán)重缺陷。這些年輕人都需要音樂(lè)記譜、基礎(chǔ)和弦和聽(tīng)音訓(xùn)練等一系列新生訓(xùn)練課程。另一方面,搖滾樂(lè)手們堅(jiān)信自己的藝術(shù)完全是詩(shī)歌、心靈和即興創(chuàng)作的產(chǎn)物而厭惡常規(guī)強(qiáng)化訓(xùn)練。但是伯克利堅(jiān)持要他們學(xué)習(xí)音樂(lè)專(zhuān)業(yè)基礎(chǔ)課,即使是那些最固執(zhí)的學(xué)生也最終改變了看法。
“搖滾樂(lè)手們滿(mǎn)腦子出人頭地的想法。”表演分部主任門(mén)羅說(shuō),“搖滾樂(lè)手們認(rèn)為如果他們到22歲還未成名,就算完了。他們來(lái)到這里時(shí),已經(jīng)在考慮自己的第一場(chǎng)音樂(lè)會(huì)了。我們則對(duì)他們講:‘閉嘴!孩子,靜下心來(lái)學(xué)!’”
音樂(lè)天才的搖籃
伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院提供4年制的學(xué)士學(xué)位課程,學(xué)生前兩年上基礎(chǔ)課:和聲、對(duì)位、辨音訓(xùn)練和音樂(lè)技術(shù),后兩年進(jìn)入各專(zhuān)業(yè)課程學(xué)習(xí)。學(xué)院設(shè)有12個(gè)專(zhuān)業(yè):古典音樂(lè)作曲、爵士音樂(lè)作曲、現(xiàn)代音樂(lè)寫(xiě)作與制作、電影音樂(lè)錄制、音樂(lè)商業(yè)管理、音樂(lè)教育、音樂(lè)制作技術(shù)與工程、音樂(lè)合成、歌曲寫(xiě)作、音樂(lè)療法、演奏和專(zhuān)業(yè)音樂(lè)。從伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院畢業(yè)的學(xué)生,無(wú)論學(xué)什么專(zhuān)業(yè)都必須是一個(gè)專(zhuān)業(yè)水平的演奏家,至少要精通一種樂(lè)器。
伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院的學(xué)費(fèi)十分昂貴,例如1999年伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院的學(xué)費(fèi)為全年15350美元,再加上食宿雜項(xiàng)大約需要2.5萬(wàn)美元。學(xué)院提供的獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金也不少,大約有500萬(wàn)美元。在獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金的發(fā)放上,美國(guó)學(xué)生和外國(guó)學(xué)生基本一視同仁,只要是出類(lèi)拔萃的申請(qǐng)人都有機(jī)會(huì)獲得獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金。
英文基礎(chǔ)差的學(xué)生會(huì)被安排到一般社區(qū)學(xué)院先補(bǔ)習(xí)英文。學(xué)校十分惜才,對(duì)招生慎之又慎,對(duì)于有音樂(lè)天才的和與音樂(lè)無(wú)緣的考生,錄取或不錄取會(huì)迅速?zèng)Q定。但是許多有才能的學(xué)生并非全面發(fā)展,他們自認(rèn)為音樂(lè)是自己的天生使命,若被拒之門(mén)外,有可能意味著一個(gè)音樂(lè)人才遭到了扼殺。因而,學(xué)院總是想方設(shè)法給他們機(jī)會(huì),幫他們圓夢(mèng)。
伯克利的學(xué)生們畢業(yè)后有極好的機(jī)遇從事音樂(lè)專(zhuān)業(yè)方面的職業(yè)。現(xiàn)在來(lái)推測(cè)爵士樂(lè)、搖滾樂(lè)和流行音樂(lè)在未來(lái)幾十年如何發(fā)展,比1945年勞倫斯·伯克改行從事音樂(lè)教學(xué)工作時(shí)更難。不管發(fā)生什么,伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院都將是音樂(lè)教育界的主角,這一點(diǎn)毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)。如今,許多專(zhuān)業(yè)樂(lè)團(tuán)至少有一名伯克利畢業(yè)生。名列前茅的爵士樂(lè)歌手,像鋼琴家賽勒斯·切斯納斯特和雅基·泰拉松,他們的成功至少部分歸功于在伯克利課堂上的學(xué)習(xí)和排練。由伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院畢業(yè)生所創(chuàng)立的“小伯克利”音樂(lè)學(xué)校和伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院保持著正式的聯(lián)系,這些學(xué)校在巴黎、巴塞羅那、特拉維夫、雅典和赫爾辛基如雨后春筍般涌現(xiàn)出來(lái)。
學(xué)生們和教職員工一樣,對(duì)“聯(lián)系”一詞有著深刻的體驗(yàn),因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)诓死纳钸h(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超出了學(xué)習(xí)讀譜、音樂(lè)理論和如何演奏一樣樂(lè)器。他們“以樂(lè)會(huì)友”,廣交同仁,建立了廣泛的聯(lián)系。5年、10年或20年后,音樂(lè)界的電影配樂(lè)、音樂(lè)教育、樂(lè)團(tuán)演奏等領(lǐng)域中的許多骨干肯定會(huì)是伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院的校友。
第三篇:伯克利暑期交流
Berkeley暑期學(xué)校DIY全攻略發(fā)信站: 北大未名站
最近有好幾個(gè)同學(xué)向我咨詢(xún)Berkeley暑期學(xué)校的情況, 鑒于自己跌宕起伏的純DIY過(guò)程可能對(duì)以后每年去Berkeley上暑期學(xué)校的筒子們有借鑒意義,特意爬上來(lái)寫(xiě)一寫(xiě)攻略。
開(kāi)始之前,我想先比較一下跟學(xué)校國(guó)合項(xiàng)目和DIY的優(yōu)勢(shì)和劣勢(shì),以說(shuō)明DIY適合神馬樣的筒子。國(guó)合的Berkeley summer session項(xiàng)目大約是眾summer中每年參加人數(shù)最多口碑也比較好的。每年3月報(bào)名截止,報(bào)完名后交錢(qián)給國(guó)合,然后就不用操太多心了。費(fèi)用主要包括:報(bào)名費(fèi)雜費(fèi)685刀+選課每學(xué)分350刀(鑒于Berkeley今年漲學(xué)費(fèi)了,估計(jì)summer學(xué)費(fèi)也會(huì)漲)+住宿+吃飯+往返機(jī)票+簽證+結(jié)課后一周的旅游(旅游可選)。按照今年的價(jià)格,6周5學(xué)分的課程,如果不旅游總共要花5w多,旅游再加1w。所謂DIY,就是自己去Berkeley網(wǎng)站上報(bào)名,自己訂機(jī)票租房子預(yù)約簽證,在米國(guó)自己做飯,也就是本人今年的情況。我選了7學(xué)分的課,總共花了約4w。也就是說(shuō)如果選5學(xué)分的課就只要花3w多,比國(guó)合省了近2w,在p大足夠花一年了。因此DIY還是可以給父母省下一筆可觀的米滴。除此之外,DIY一個(gè)summer是很能鍛煉能力的,對(duì)于打算畢業(yè)后去美帝留學(xué)的同學(xué)來(lái)說(shuō),可以算先做了一次模擬,這樣以后在申請(qǐng)過(guò)程中會(huì)對(duì)各種程序更加熟悉。另外,如果你自己做飯的話(huà),這不失為一個(gè)鍛煉廚藝的好時(shí)機(jī)。拿本人來(lái)說(shuō),這次出國(guó)前從來(lái)沒(méi)自己做過(guò)一頓像樣的飯,回來(lái)的時(shí)候就已經(jīng)學(xué)會(huì)了各種家常菜的做法了。下面開(kāi)始介紹DIY的具體做法,分為前期準(zhǔn)備、報(bào)名選課、訂機(jī)票、簽證、租房、吃飯及其他七個(gè)部分。
1、前期準(zhǔn)備辦好護(hù)照以及帶visa或者master的信用卡;CET4/GRE/TOEFL/IELTS當(dāng)中至少考過(guò)一個(gè)且已經(jīng)拿到成績(jī)。
2、報(bào)名選課去Berkeley官網(wǎng),選擇Applying to Berkeley
Summer Session,就進(jìn)入了暑期學(xué)校頁(yè)面http://summer.berkeley.edu/ 非UC學(xué)生今年是2月15號(hào)開(kāi)始報(bào)名。在網(wǎng)站上注冊(cè)一個(gè)報(bào)名的賬號(hào),填報(bào)名表,報(bào)名的同時(shí)選課、交費(fèi),之后還要上傳幾份證明材料,包括護(hù)照、英語(yǔ)成績(jī)單、存款證明等。存款證明有網(wǎng)頁(yè)上要求的數(shù)額就行了,去年是2500刀。注意辦簽證對(duì)選課的學(xué)分有要求。3周的session至少要3學(xué)分,6周至少要5學(xué)分。雖然選課系統(tǒng)關(guān)閉很晚,但報(bào)名晚了的話(huà)很多熱門(mén)的課就選滿(mǎn)了,所以還是盡早吧。
3、訂機(jī)票報(bào)完名就可以根據(jù)上課時(shí)間訂機(jī)票了,不需要等選課結(jié)果出來(lái),因?yàn)槌悄阋x的課已經(jīng)選滿(mǎn)了或者英語(yǔ)成績(jī)不合要求,我還沒(méi)見(jiàn)過(guò)他家踢人的。訂機(jī)票可以找代理或者專(zhuān)門(mén)的訂票網(wǎng)站,訂得越早越便宜,像我去年3月訂的國(guó)航的往返機(jī)票是八千多,到六月就要一萬(wàn)多了。
4、簽證等你的報(bào)名賬號(hào)里顯示材料通過(guò)審核了你就可以預(yù)約簽證了。學(xué)校會(huì)給你寄I20表格,相當(dāng)于邀請(qǐng)函,面簽的時(shí)候要帶著,但是預(yù)約簽證的時(shí)候不用。I20一般一周能寄到,所以你預(yù)約簽證的時(shí)候要保證面簽前能收到I20.預(yù)約簽證就是拿著護(hù)照去中信銀行買(mǎi)簽證費(fèi)和預(yù)約電話(huà)卡。簽證費(fèi)900多,電話(huà)卡8分鐘的36.買(mǎi)回來(lái)之后就可以用電話(huà)卡預(yù)約簽證時(shí)間了。注意每年4月15日前后預(yù)約的人特別多,在那之后預(yù)約會(huì)等很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間,所以建議盡早準(zhǔn)備。預(yù)約完了就是到了約好的日子帶著材料去美國(guó)大使館面簽就行了。注意在面簽之前還要去美國(guó)大使館網(wǎng)站上交那個(gè)200刀的SEVIS fee。面簽要帶的材料一般包括護(hù)照、I20、簽證費(fèi)收據(jù)、SEVIS費(fèi)收據(jù)、在學(xué)證明、存款證明、兩張兩寸照片,其他有幫助的材料也可以帶,具體要求參見(jiàn)美國(guó)大使館網(wǎng)站。
5、租房租房是DIY過(guò)程中略麻煩的一個(gè)環(huán)節(jié)。Berkeley暑期也提供宿舍,但是相當(dāng)宰人,最最便宜的六周也要2000刀,比學(xué)期中間貴很多,而且是跟食堂綁定的,而食堂又貴又難吃。我怎么知道宿舍宰人呢?因?yàn)槲胰ツ曜夥孔拥氖矣丫褪荁erkeley本科生,她們平時(shí)也住宿舍,但是暑假宿舍租金太坑爹,所以她們不惜來(lái)回搬家折騰暑假也要搬出來(lái)住,我走的時(shí)候她們也要搬回宿舍去了。下面說(shuō)說(shuō)租房。Berkeley
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CalRentals , https://calrentals.housing.berkeley.edu/ 去上面注冊(cè)個(gè)賬號(hào),不用交錢(qián)也可以使用。據(jù)我去年的經(jīng)驗(yàn),目前上面的房源不會(huì)太多,4-5月放出的房子最多。在網(wǎng)站上搜索的時(shí)候注意限制房子的租期和位置。一般來(lái)說(shuō)滿(mǎn)足暑期學(xué)校需求的房子都在轉(zhuǎn)租的那一類(lèi)里面。租金的變化范圍很大,每月每人少至兩三百刀多至兩三千刀的都有,住房條件自然差別也很大了。我有個(gè)同學(xué)曾經(jīng)租到過(guò)一個(gè)月100刀的房子,不過(guò)這樣的機(jī)會(huì)是可遇不可求的。一般來(lái)說(shuō)每人每月不超過(guò)600刀的就算便宜了,租金便宜且離學(xué)校近的房子是很搶手的,所以建議看到這樣的房子就趕快聯(lián)系房主敲定吧,不要老想著還價(jià)了,跟住學(xué)校宿舍比怎么都很便宜了。建議找房子的時(shí)候同時(shí)開(kāi)著google地圖,這樣好知道上面給出的地址離學(xué)校有多遠(yuǎn)。
特別提示1:校園外的東南部是黑人聚居區(qū),建議租房最好不要在這一塊。以及,不管住在哪里晚上都最好別一個(gè)人出門(mén),女生尤其要注意。
特別提示2:跟房主談好了之后最好簽一份書(shū)面協(xié)議。雖然說(shuō)美國(guó)人通常比較講信用,但是要以防萬(wàn)一不是。
特別提示3:每年北大都有一大票人是自己租房子的,建議找人合租,一來(lái)分?jǐn)偡孔?,二?lái)合住感覺(jué)上更安全。很多房子里面是不帶家具或者家具很少的,可視情況要求房主給你配家具,實(shí)在不行還可以自己帶個(gè)充氣床去睡。
6、吃飯前面說(shuō)過(guò),學(xué)校食堂又貴又難吃。而B(niǎo)erkeley周?chē)泻芏喔鲊?guó)風(fēng)味的館子,吃貨去那里可以一飽口福了。建議去google地圖或者yelp這樣的網(wǎng)站上搜索附近的館子,這樣可以找到評(píng)價(jià)較高的。下面列出幾家我吃過(guò)的覺(jué)得不錯(cuò)的館子。
Cheese Board Pizza, 在Shattuck Ave上,異?;鸨囊患襭izza店,天天飯點(diǎn)要排隊(duì),pizza確實(shí)好吃,必勝客神馬的跟他家比簡(jiǎn)直弱爆了。特色是每天只賣(mài)一款pizza一款甜點(diǎn)。人均消費(fèi)約10刀。La Note,也在Shattuck Ave上,法國(guó)館子。牛排、長(zhǎng)棍面包、濃湯都很棒。缺點(diǎn)是服務(wù)員比較勢(shì)利,不給小費(fèi)就對(duì)你愛(ài)理不理的。人均消費(fèi)約15刀(不含小費(fèi))。Gypsy's Trattoria Italiano,在Durant Ave上,意大利館子,意面很棒,記得有個(gè)意面配蔬菜沙拉的套餐很實(shí)惠,不到9刀。Subway,就是賽百味啦,賣(mài)三明治的。離學(xué)校最近的一家就在學(xué)校正對(duì)Telegraph Ave的那個(gè)校門(mén)對(duì)面。三明治的配菜自己選,品種很多,竊以為比國(guó)內(nèi)的好吃。6寸的4.95刀,12寸的6點(diǎn)幾刀,性?xún)r(jià)比不錯(cuò)。一般女生吃6寸的男生吃12寸的就夠了。(像我這種豬一樣的女生也要吃12寸的……掩面遁走……)Top Dog,學(xué)校南北各有一家,專(zhuān)賣(mài)各種hot dog。我去的是南邊那家,在Durant Ave上,經(jīng)常要排隊(duì),hot dog確實(shí)好吃。一個(gè)hot dog大概3刀,我吃?xún)蓚€(gè)就飽了。McDonarld’s,這個(gè)不用說(shuō)了,在Shattuck Ave上。雞腿漢堡+大薯?xiàng)l+大可樂(lè)的套餐6點(diǎn)幾刀。趕腳分量比北京的足。特別提示:不建議去Berkeley的中餐館,會(huì)毀了你對(duì)祖國(guó)飲食的印象的。不過(guò)據(jù)我的美國(guó)香港移民二代室友說(shuō),三番市內(nèi)唐人街的中餐館還不錯(cuò)。去外面吃相對(duì)自己做飯總是很貴的,最省米的辦法還是自己做飯了。據(jù)我估算,早餐1刀,中晚餐2刀就可以吃得不錯(cuò)了。要實(shí)現(xiàn)自己做飯,首先你租的房子要有廚房,其次你要找到買(mǎi)菜的地方,再次你要會(huì)基本的做菜方法。下面重點(diǎn)說(shuō)說(shuō)買(mǎi)菜的地方。Berkeley市區(qū)有幾個(gè)比較大的grocery store,買(mǎi)菜比較方便,不過(guò)菜也偏貴。推薦Shattuck Ave上的兩家,一家是SafeWay,第一次去填張表辦會(huì)員卡就可以有很多會(huì)員價(jià)優(yōu)惠,他家除肉類(lèi)外的菜都相對(duì)便宜;另一家叫Andronico’s,肉類(lèi)價(jià)格一般比SafeWay便宜,而且關(guān)鍵是肉類(lèi)有小份的,適合一個(gè)人買(mǎi),不像SafeWay的肉類(lèi)都是超大家庭裝。市區(qū)的東西都是偏貴的,要買(mǎi)便宜的菜和其他日用品可以坐40分鐘25路公交去郊區(qū)的一家大型華人超市99 Ranch Market。除了便宜外,他家的主要優(yōu)勢(shì)是可以買(mǎi)到各種中國(guó)特色的食品和其他用具,比如中式面條、方便面、粉絲粉條、豆腐乳、醬油、速凍水餃、湯圓、小籠湯包等等,基本上中國(guó)有啥那里就有啥。
7、交通、購(gòu)物及其他從三番機(jī)場(chǎng)到Berkeley有地鐵,那邊叫bart,中間要換一次車(chē),建議在起點(diǎn)站找工作人員問(wèn)清路線并要一份地鐵線路圖。順便吐槽一下美帝公交系統(tǒng)比天朝貴了遠(yuǎn)了去了,從機(jī)場(chǎng)到Berkeley要9點(diǎn)幾刀。此外,Berkeley市區(qū)有很多公交,憑報(bào)到時(shí)注冊(cè)的學(xué)生證可以免費(fèi)乘車(chē)。但是,不要以為那真是免費(fèi)的,事實(shí)上,每月60刀的公交費(fèi)已經(jīng)包括在你交給學(xué)校的錢(qián)里了。如果不用學(xué)生卡,一般上車(chē)就是2刀……購(gòu)物方面,日常生活用品在Berkeley的各種grocery和pharmacy就可以了,除了上面吃飯篇提到的兩家grocery,還可以去CVS、WalGreen等。如果要買(mǎi)化妝品、衣服等,Berkeley也有一些專(zhuān)賣(mài)店,如Clinique、Kiehl’s、Levi’s、Adidas等等。要買(mǎi)奢侈品、電子產(chǎn)品等等,建議去三番市區(qū)的Macy’s一類(lèi)的大商場(chǎng)買(mǎi),或者在機(jī)場(chǎng)免稅店也可以。不過(guò),免稅店的品牌還是比較有限的。手機(jī)費(fèi)的問(wèn)題,你可以選擇在國(guó)內(nèi)開(kāi)通國(guó)際漫游,也可以去那邊租一個(gè)臨時(shí)號(hào)碼。我當(dāng)時(shí)租了一個(gè)AT&T的號(hào)碼,包月50刀,美國(guó)國(guó)內(nèi)電話(huà)隨便打,短信全球隨便發(fā),GPRS上網(wǎng)不限流量。再說(shuō)一說(shuō)安全問(wèn)題。白天還是比較安全的,可以隨意出門(mén),晚上就最好結(jié)伴而行了,而且盡量別到黑人聚居區(qū)去。Berkeley校方提供免費(fèi)的BearWalk服務(wù),也就是晚上你如果一個(gè)人要從學(xué)校走回你住的地方去,可以打電話(huà)叫一個(gè)人來(lái)陪你走。不過(guò)你住的地方必須在學(xué)校規(guī)定的范圍內(nèi),具體情況報(bào)到開(kāi)會(huì)的時(shí)候老師會(huì)說(shuō)。
手快寫(xiě)斷了,就寫(xiě)這么多吧。祝大家飛躍順利!
第四篇:桑德伯格在UC伯克利畢業(yè)演講[范文]
Thank you, Marie.And thank you esteemed members of the faculty, proud parents, devoted friends, and squirming siblings.Congratulations to all of you…and especially to the magnificent Berkeley graduating class of 2016!
It is a privilege to be here at Berkeley, which has produced so many Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award winners, astronauts, members of Congress, Olympic gold medalists….and that’s just the women!
Berkeley has always been ahead of the times.In the 1960s, you led the Free Speech Movement.Back in those days, people used to say that with all the long hair, how do we even tell the boys from the girls? We now know the answer: man buns.Early on, Berkeley opened its doors to the entire population.When this campus opened in 1873, the class included 167 men and 222 women.It took my alma mater another ninety years to award a single degree to a single woman.One of the women who came here in search of opportunity was Rosalind Nuss.Roz grew up scrubbing floors in the Brooklyn boardinghouse where she lived.She was pulled out of high school by her parents to help support their family.One of her teachers insisted that her parents put her back into school—and in 1937, she sat where you are sitting today and received a Berkeley degree.Roz was my grandmother.She was a huge inspiration to me and I’m so grateful that Berkeley recognized her potential.I want to take a moment to offer a special congratulations to the many here today who are the first generation in their families to graduate from college.What a remarkable achievement.Today is a day of celebration.A day to celebrate all the hard work that got you to this moment.Today is a day of thanks.A day to thank those who helped you get here—nurtured you, taught you, cheered you on, and dried your tears.Or at least the ones man who didn’t draw on you with a Sharpie when you fell asleep at a party.Today is a day of reflection.Because today marks the end of one era of your life and the beginning of something new.A commencement address is meant to be a dance between youth and wisdom.You have the youth.Someone comes in to be the voice of wisdom—that’s supposed to be me.I stand up here and tell you all the things I have learned in life, you throw your cap in the air, you let your family take a million photos –don’t forget to post them on instagram—and everyone goes home happy.Today will be a bit different.We will still do the caps and you still have to do the photos.But I am not here to tell you all the things I’ve learned in life.Today I will try to tell you what I learned in death.I have never spoken publicly about this before.It’s hard.But I will do my very best not to blow my nose on this beautiful Berkeley robe.One year and thirteen days ago, I lost my husband, Dave.His death was sudden and unexpected.We were at a friend’s fiftieth birthday party in Mexico.I took a nap.Dave went to work out.What followed was the unthinkable—walking into a gym to find him lying on the floor.Flying home to tell my children that their father was gone.Watching his casket being lowered into the ground.For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief—what I think of as the void—an emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe.Dave’s death changed me in very profound ways.I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss.But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.I learned that in the face of the void—or in the face of any challenge—you can choose joy and meaning.I’m sharing this with you in the hopes that today, as you take the next step in your life, you can learn the lessons that I only learned in death.Lessons about hope, strength, and the light within us that will not be extinguished.Everyone who has made it through Cal has already experienced some disappointment.You wanted an A but you got a B.OK, let’s be honest—you got an A-but you’re still mad.You applied for an internship at Facebook, but you only got one from Google.She was the love of your life… but then she swiped left.Game of Thrones the show has diverged way too much from the books—and you bothered to read all four thousand three hundred and fifty-two pages.You will almost certainly face more and deeper adversity.There’s loss of opportunity: the job that doesn’t work out, the illness or accident that changes everything in an instant.There’s loss of dignity: the sharp sting of prejudice when it happens.There’s loss of love: the broken relationships that can’t be fixed.And sometimes there’s loss of life itself.Some of you have already experienced the kind of tragedy and hardship that leave an indelible mark.Last year, Radhika, the winner of the University Medal, spoke so beautifully about the sudden loss of her mother.The question is not if some of these things will happen to you.They will.Today I want to talk about what happens next.About the things you can do to overcome adversity, no matter what form it takes or when it hits you.The easy days ahead of you will be easy.It is the hard days—the times that challenge you to your very core—that will determine who you are.You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but by how you survive.A few weeks after Dave died, I was talking to my friend Phil about a father-son activity that Dave was not here to do.We came up with a plan to fill in for Dave.I cried to him, “But I want Dave.” Phil put his arm around me and said, “Option A is not available.So let’s just kick the shit out of option B.”
We all at some point live some form of option B.The question is: What do we do then?
As a representative of Silicon Valley, I’m pleased to tell you there is data to learn from.After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that there are three P’s—personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence—that are critical to how we bounce back from hardship.The seeds of resilience are planted in the way we process the negative events in our lives.The first P is personalization—the belief that we are at fault.This is different from taking responsibility, which you should always do.This is the lesson that not everything that happens to us happens because of us.When Dave died, I had a very common reaction, which was to blame myself.He died in seconds from a cardiac arrhythmia.I poured over his medical records asking what I could have—or should have—done.It wasn’t until I learned about the three P’s that I accepted that I could not have prevented his death.His doctors had not identified his coronary artery disease.I was an economics major;how could I have?
Studies show that getting past personalization can actually make you stronger.Teachers who knew they could do better after students failed adjusted their methods and saw future classes go on to excel.College swimmers who underperformed but believed they were capable of swimming faster did.Not taking failures personally allows us to recover—and even to thrive.The second P is pervasiveness—the belief that an event will affect all areas of your life.You know that song “Everything is awesome?” This is the flip: “Everything is awful.” There’s no place to run or hide from the all-consuming sadness.The child psychologists I spoke to encouraged me to get my kids back to their routine as soon as possible.So ten days after Dave died, they went back to school and I went back to work.I remember sitting in my first Facebook meeting in a deep, deep haze.All I could think was, “What is everyone talking about and how could this possibly matter?” But then I got drawn into the discussion and for a second—a brief split second—I forgot about death.That brief second helped me see that there were other things in my life that were not awful.My children and I were healthy.My friends and family were so loving and they carried us—quite literally at times.The loss of a partner often has severe negative financial consequences, especially for women.So many single mothers—and fathers—struggle to make ends meet or have jobs that don’t allow them the time they need to care for their children.I had financial security, the ability to take the time off I needed, and a job that I did not just believe in, but where it’s actually OK to spend all day on Facebook.Gradually, my children started sleeping through the night, crying less, playing more.The third P is permanence—the belief that the sorrow will last forever.For months, no matter what I did, it felt like the crushing grief would always be there.We often project our current feelings out indefinitely—and experience what I think of as the second derivative of those feelings.We feel anxious—and then we feel anxious that we’re anxious.We feel sad—and then we feel sad that we’re sad.Instead, we should accept our feelings—but recognize that they will not last forever.My rabbi told me that time would heal but for now I should “l(fā)ean in to the suck.” It was good advice, but not really what I meant by “l(fā)ean in.”
None of you need me to explain the fourth P…which is, of course, pizza from Cheese Board.But I wish I had known about the three P’s when I was your age.There were so many times these lessons would have helped.Day one of my first job out of college, my boss found out that I didn’t know how to enter data into Lotus 1-2-3.That’s a spreadsheet—ask your parents.His mouth dropped open and he said, ‘I can’t believe you got this job without knowing that”—and then walked out of the room.I went home convinced that I was going to be fired.I thought I was terrible at everything… but it turns out I was only terrible at spreadsheets.Understanding pervasiveness would have saved me a lot of anxiety that week.I wish I had known about permanence when I broke up with boyfriends.It would’ve been a comfort to know that feeling was not going to last forever, and if I was being honest with myself… neither were any of those relationships.And I wish I had understood personalization when boyfriends broke up with me.Sometimes it’s not you—it really is them.I mean, that dude never showered.And all three P’s ganged up on me in my twenties after my first marriage ended in divorce.I thought at the time that no matter what I accomplished, I was a massive failure.The three P’s are common emotional reactions to so many things that happen to us—in our careers, our personal lives, and our relationships.You’re probably feeling one of them right now about something in your life.But if you can recognize you are falling into these traps, you can catch yourself.Just as our bodies have a physiological immune system, our brains have a psychological immune system—and there are steps you can take to help kick it into gear.One day my friend Adam Grant, a psychologist, suggested that I think about how much worse things could be.This was completely counterintuitive;it seemed like the way to recover was to try to find positive thoughts.“Worse?” I said.“Are you kidding me? How could things be worse?” His answer cut straight through me: “Dave could have had that same cardiac arrhythmia while he was driving your children.” Wow.The moment he said it, I was overwhelmingly grateful that the rest of my family was alive and healthy.That gratitude overtook some of the grief.Finding gratitude and appreciation is key to resilience.People who take the time to list things they are grateful for are happier and healthier.It turns out that counting your blessings can actually increase your blessings.My New Year’s resolution this year is to write down three moments of joy before I go to bed each night.This simple practice has changed my life.Because no matter what happens each day, I go to sleep thinking of something cheerful.Try it.Start tonight when you have so many fun moments to list— although maybe do it before you hit Kip’s and can still remember what they are.Last month, eleven days before the anniversary of Dave’s death, I broke down crying to a friend of mine.We were sitting—of all places—on a bathroom floor.I said: “Eleven days.One year ago, he had eleven days left.And we had no idea.” We looked at each other through tears, and asked how we would live if we knew we had eleven days left.As you graduate, can you ask yourselves to live as if you had eleven days left? I don’t mean blow everything off and party all the time— although tonight is an exception.I mean live with the understanding of how precious every single day would be.How precious every day actually is.A few years ago, my mom had to have her hip replaced.When she was younger, she always walked without pain.But as her hip disintegrated, each step became painful.Now, even years after her operation, she is grateful for every step she takes without pain—something that never would have occurred to her before.As I stand here today, a year after the worst day of my life, two things are true.I have a huge reservoir of sadness that is with me always—right here where I can touch it.I never knew I could cry so often—or so much.But I am also aware that I am walking without pain.For the first time, I am grateful for each breath in and out—grateful for the gift of life itself.I used to celebrate my birthday every five years and friends’ birthdays sometimes.Now I celebrate always.I used to go to sleep worrying about all the things I messed up that day—and trust me that list was often quite long.Now I try really hard to focus on each day’s moments of joy.It is the greatest irony of my life that losing my husband helped me find deeper gratitude—gratitude for the kindness of my friends, the love of my family, the laughter of my children.My hope for you is that you can find that gratitude—not just on the good days, like today, but on the hard ones, when you will really need it.There are so many moments of joy ahead of you.That trip you always wanted to take.A first kiss with someone you really like.The day you get a job doing something you truly believe in.Beating Stanford.(Go Bears!)All of these things will happen to you.Enjoy each and every one.I hope that you live your life—each precious day of it—with joy and meaning.I hope that you walk without pain—and that you are grateful for each step.And when the challenges come, I hope you remember that anchored deep within you is the ability to learn and grow.You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience.Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it.In that process you will figure out who you really are—and you just might become the very best version of yourself.Class of 2016, as you leave Berkeley, build resilience.Build resilience in yourselves.When tragedy or disappointment strike, know that you have the ability to get through absolutely anything.I promise you do.As the saying goes, we are more vulnerable than we ever thought, but we are stronger than we ever imagined.Build resilient organizations.If anyone can do it, you can, because Berkeley is filled with people who want to make the world a better place.Never stop working to do so—whether it’s a boardroom that is not representative or a campus that’s not safe.Speak up, especially at institutions like this one, which you hold so dear.My favorite poster at work reads, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else’s problem.” When you see something that’s broken, go fix it.Build resilient communities.We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.Be there for your family and friends.And I mean in person.Not just in a message with a heart emoji.Lift each other up, help each other kick the shit out of option B—and celebrate each and every moment of joy.You have the whole world in front of you.I can’t wait to see what you do with it.Congratulations, and Go Bears!
第五篇:伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院知名校友
伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院(英語(yǔ):Berklee College of Music),世界著名獨(dú)立音樂(lè)學(xué)院,位于美國(guó)波士頓。伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院建于1945年,由勞倫斯·伯克創(chuàng)辦的,原名施林格音樂(lè)大廈,是以伯克的老師約瑟夫·施林格命名。1954年,伯克以他的兒子李·伯克為名將學(xué)校的名字改為伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)校。最初主要教學(xué)爵士樂(lè)、搖滾樂(lè)和部分其他地方難以學(xué)到的現(xiàn)代音樂(lè)。
留學(xué)360金牌留學(xué)顧問(wèn)老師介紹,伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院面向世界招生,錄取率為25%(2012-2013學(xué)年),學(xué)制為四年,并提供音樂(lè)學(xué)士學(xué)位。2003年設(shè)置了一個(gè)網(wǎng)上班?!傍B(niǎo)叔”(PSY)、王力宏、大衛(wèi)·鮑伊、U2樂(lè)隊(duì)吉他手Edge、AERO SMITH的主唱史蒂夫·泰勒都畢業(yè)于此。伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院有200余位校友曾獲格萊美獎(jiǎng)?,F(xiàn)任校長(zhǎng)是羅杰·布朗(Roger H.Brown),2004年上任。伯克利音樂(lè)學(xué)院有21座建筑物。每年舉辦多場(chǎng)學(xué)生和系音樂(lè)會(huì)。它直接與學(xué)院的錄音室和設(shè)施關(guān)聯(lián),使音樂(lè)會(huì)可以專(zhuān)業(yè)和高質(zhì)量地被記錄下來(lái)。此外每年這里還舉辦多個(gè)外部的表演、特殊學(xué)習(xí)班等。
知名校友
顧嘉輝(香港著名作曲家)(于1961年就讀)
翁清溪(臺(tái)灣著名作曲家)(于1973年就讀)
張弘毅(臺(tái)灣著名作曲家)(于1979年就讀)
吉田潔(日本著名作曲家)(于1985年就讀)
伍樂(lè)城(香港著名作曲家)(于1991年就讀)
鮑比達(dá)(香港著名作曲家)(于1978年就讀)
陳輝陽(yáng)(香港著名作曲家)
陳永良(香港著名作曲家)(于1976年就讀)
黃荻鈞(臺(tái)灣著名作曲家及和聲編寫(xiě)音樂(lè)人及演員)(于2004年畢業(yè))
李欣蕓(臺(tái)灣獨(dú)立流行音樂(lè)人)
王力宏(亞洲天王巨星)
熊汝霖(中國(guó)大陸實(shí)力歌手)
PSY(本名樸載相,韓國(guó)著名歌手 代表作江南style)
Henry Lau(中文名劉憲華,歌手,音樂(lè)制作人,著名韓國(guó)組合Super Junior M成員)
Hemenway(日本搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì),成員均為伯克利學(xué)生)
THE RiCECOOKERS(日本搖滾樂(lè)隊(duì))
Lia
Park Bom(中文名樸春 韓國(guó)著名女子組合2NE1成員)
田中公平(日本作曲家)
川江美奈子(日本鋼琴家)
Steve Vai(八九十年代最杰出的吉他演奏家之一)
Corrinne May(旅美創(chuàng)作歌手符美云)
Yangpa(洋蔥)(韓國(guó)知名歌手)
李路(韓國(guó)知名歌手)
鄭舒尹(臺(tái)灣歌手)
愛(ài)普瑞(加拿大著名小提琴家)
王玨(中國(guó)歌手)
朱明瑛(中國(guó)著名歌舞表演藝術(shù)家)
霍華德·肖(加拿大著名電影音樂(lè)家)
張慧珍(韓國(guó)歌手)
何真真(中國(guó)臺(tái)灣音樂(lè)創(chuàng)作人)
樸來(lái)美(《美女老師的偶像養(yǎng)成記》中ukiss東浩的英語(yǔ)老師)
諾爾曼(中國(guó)大陸90后創(chuàng)作型新人歌手)
黃一(中國(guó)好聲音第一期楊坤組學(xué)員)
陳雪燃(北京航空航天大學(xué)26系新媒體學(xué)院13屆畢業(yè)生,北航知名校友)
劉雨潼(中國(guó)最強(qiáng)音HOPE組合隊(duì)長(zhǎng),2013中國(guó)最強(qiáng)音亞軍,2015中國(guó)好歌曲第二季劉歡組優(yōu)秀學(xué)員)
Mikey(本名 Kim Michael Jung 二段橫踢成員 韓國(guó)音樂(lè)制作人)
張杰(中國(guó)內(nèi)地樂(lè)壇領(lǐng)軍唱將,于2013年在此校進(jìn)修三個(gè)月)
宋秉洋(原SM娛樂(lè)公司練習(xí)生,現(xiàn)自主創(chuàng)作型歌手)
于文文(加拿大籍華裔,創(chuàng)作型歌手)
蔣瑤嘉(第一季《中國(guó)好歌曲》參賽選手)
黎子明(第二季《中國(guó)好歌曲》參賽選手,Calculasian清唱團(tuán)主唱)
張凱迪(中國(guó)內(nèi)地女歌手)