第一篇:伯克利演讲
“伯里克利葬礼演说辞”介绍
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.“伯里克利葬礼演说辞”介绍
修昔底德并不属于帝国缔造者那几代人。他生得恰比他们要晚,其个人记忆不会回溯到445年和约之前。因而,他与更年长的同代人共同拥有着那个时代的理想,但在方式上却不如前辈们那样本能。与他们相似的是,他知道自己生活在伟大的时代。然而,比他们更深思熟虑的是,他想记录他们的业绩;因为他知道这种辉煌不会持久,而他的前辈们如果在清醒时思考也会知道这一点,而后代们会乐于阅读对这个辉煌时代的记载。但他几乎未曾料到,帝国的辉煌竟会如此地昙花一现,或者说,在自己的短促生涯中,竟会亲眼目睹到帝国的“秋日”和“隆冬”。
然而,就在这“隆冬”时节,当长城被拆毁,雅典卫城被斯巴达驻军戍守时,他以悼念其城市的高贵死者的演说辞方式(还有什么更恰如其分的方式呢?)撰写城市的颂歌。当然,这不是伯里克利发表的演说,甚至,如演讲者所暗示的,也非此种场合通常要发表的那种演说。演讲中有关其高贵祖先的描述微乎其微,而有关当代的内容却十分丰富。然而没有理由怀疑,修昔底德曾亲耳聆听过他心目中的英雄为悼念城市的阵亡将士所做的演讲,很可能不只一次,而且多年后还能从其最珍视的记忆中回想起“他那抑扬顿挫的声调和手势”,以及广大听众所保持的那种庄严肃穆的气氛,只是间或被“死者母亲的抽泣声”所打断。我们相信能体察到,除了凭其自身的阅历所添加的润色外,他不仅传递给我们很多伯里克利的语言,而且还有其内在的思想。因而我们在此能够聆听到,就如同在所有阐释性的杰作中所能听到的那样,两个伟大灵魂共同发出的声音;而当我们学会使用自己的耳朵时,有时能够同时捕捉到两人的声音,在历史家深沉的声音之上传来伯里克利的随着时光流逝而变得略显微弱和稀疏是声音。
这篇演讲辞“不是用墨水而是用血”写成的,如果确曾有这样的作品被写出来的话。因为对修昔底德而言,或许比其他任何伟大作家尤甚,此篇文章可谓字字珠玑。“你必须逐行阅读和批注,直到你像阅读每行文字本身那样清晰地读出字里行间的意思。很少有思想家能在文章的背景中孕育出如此丰富的思想。”所有伟大的艺术作品都像一个幽灵,力求表达超出其所能言表的内容并传播得更远。无论诗歌还是更加个人化的艺术,还是以各民族为研究对象的历史作品,尽皆如此。这就是在人类质朴无华的童年时代以一个地方小城市为题材的葬礼演说辞何以总能在按自己本色生活的人们和民族中引发共鸣,无论是在奉天的战壕中,还是在葛底斯堡的公墓里。伯里克利和亚伯拉罕·林肯并非十分相象。然而,共同的需要产生了共同的语言;而伟大的政治家们,有如伟大的诗人们,在一个个颠峰之间彼此交谈着。
第二篇:伯克利音乐学院
伯克利音乐学院位于马萨诸塞州的波士顿。校区周边治安很好,学生可以全面感受波士顿的音乐和文化。校区邻近麻省理工学院和哈佛大学,从学校步行即可到著名的波士顿交响乐大厅。
伯克利音乐学院是美国最优秀的音乐学院之一,它是一所致力于现代流行音乐教学与研究的学院,这也是它与传统音乐学院的区别。它历史悠久、规模巨大,在它60多年的历史上,造就了来自75个国家的3万多名音乐家。伯克利音乐学院拥有2700多名在校生和300多名教职员工。然而,和大规模的传统音乐院校相比,它并不富有。它的4500万美元的预算以及近8000万美元的捐助基金令人不屑一顾。
这是唯一一所将主要课程设置为现代音乐的音乐院校。其他音乐学院也会开设少数现代音乐课程,但是它们财力、人力配置的第一需求是放在传统音乐上的。伯克利音乐学院是第一个把爵士乐作为受尊重的学术性课题来研究的音乐学院。
与音乐的不解之缘
“伯克利”这个名字与学院传奇般的历史有不解之缘。现任院长利·伯克的父亲劳伦斯·伯克于1996年去世,享年87岁。他是一位钢琴师,出生于条件艰苦的波士顿西区,并在那里长大。劳伦斯靠在当地舞会乐队演奏维持学业,是学校里穿着最讲究的学生。他常常在赶到学校上课时还穿着头一夜演奏时穿的小礼服。在大萧条的阴影中,他毕业了,却发现除了音乐——这个可靠的朋友和捐助者可以使他勉强维持生计外,没有他这个刚毕业的建筑工程师可做的工作。他起初在波士顿,尔后在纽约,作为钢琴师和乐曲改编在全国广播公司和哥伦比亚广播公司演播室乐团供职。直到二战爆发,劳伦斯一直在音乐生涯中奋斗。大战中,他回到波士顿,作为一名工程师为赖特翁公司设计雷达系统。
在战争结束后,音乐的才华在他身上依然不减当年。他放弃了工程师的工作,决心当一名作曲教师。他成立了席林格学校,并称它为“一人音乐教室”。他的事业很快兴盛起来。不久,他就增添了表演课,这立刻成为所有课程中听课人数最多的课程。爵士乐在那个时代受到空前欢迎,劳伦斯讲授的正是爵士乐。
劳伦斯在搬入波士顿后湾地区纽·贝里街的一所褐色砂石房子之后,开始聘请专业音乐家从事教学。学校需要一个新名称,因为劳伦斯·伯克自己的教学方式已经超越了席林格的教学法。但是,叫学校为“伯克学校”又不上口。一天早上,一个助教冲进来,说他梦到伯克以他十岁的儿子利的名字命名这所学校,“伯克利”的名字就这样定下来了。
成长的伯克利
到50年代,劳伦斯·伯克的小学校已经开始从全国,甚至海外招收学生。显然,不管伯克是否情愿,他是一下子绊倒在别人从未见过的“金砖”上了。爵士乐,当时已经被一致公认为美国的唯一民族艺术形式,正在成为一种重要产业。但是,没有一所专门学校讲授它。伯克利的挑战是很明显的:一年接一年地培养一批批合格的音乐专业人才,就像西边几英里远的哈佛商学院培养工商管理硕士生一样。一位萨克斯管教师说:“学斗牛,要去西班牙;学音乐,就来伯克利。”
就像冬日的疾风,伯克利音乐学院的课程设置、教职工和在校生的人数随着一座座建筑的兴建迅速增长。1962年,劳伦斯将学校由私立改为非盈利性质,并开设了语言、艺术、科学、历史以及其他文化课程,以便符合评定要求。到1970年,伯克利已成为一所完全正规的四年制大学。即便如此,伯克利很难声称它拥有一座校园,因为几乎没有人会把它的那些形形色色的、分散的,并且根本不般配的建筑当做高等教育学府,而且这些地方明显缺少通常大学所拥有的一些环境设施:草坪、树木、仿都铎式建筑、体育馆、球队和联谊会等,但是,它拥有音乐。
各种肤色和身高的音乐迷们三五成群聚集在走廊或砂砾铺成的过道上用各种语言交谈。我们可以见到一位白人学生坐在台阶上,吹着大号,正在认真地做音阶练习。就在他旁边,一个黑人女孩正用装了弱音器的小号做着同样的练习。街那边,一名鼓手蹲在过道上流畅地击打着节奏,等候轮到自己进入教室演奏。在充满烟味的咖啡厅,一名日本女长笛手杰米·卢罗正在旁若无人地一边唱谱,一边在空中比画难以捉摸的音符。
伯克利由多个国家和种族构成的在校生群体成为充满异国情调的一景。将近40%的学生来自国外。一名三年级的德国低音提琴手说:“我认为伯克利在德国比在美国更有名。有了伯克利的学位,回去后就一切不成问题了。”
摇滚乐手和爵士乐手占了学生人数的大多数,其他专业的学生数则介于两者之间。如果说大部分学生到校时是带着学习表演的基本想法的话,四年的课程设置则扩大了他们的眼界。他们在学习中逐渐分散到学校的四个大的专业分支:表演、音乐技术、专业写作和专业教育。伯克利总共向十几个专业的学生提供600门课程,涉及范围从歌曲写作、改编到电影配乐的创作、音乐合成、音乐商业经营和音乐疗法。
课程设置范围的扩大和多样化,反映了当今音乐领城的错综复杂。伯克利的主要功能曾一度是向大型乐团提供演奏员,为此曾获得诸如“和弦产地”和“文凭工厂”这样的称号,但是,那个时代早已一去不返了。如今,学生们仍在吹奏乐器、做发声练习,但这些只是他们工作的一部分。因为伯克利事实上已经是一个培养音乐人才的价值数十亿美元的系统。这一系统越来越依靠电子技术。如果你认为学习音乐所需要的只是一件乐器和一台录音机,那就错了,请到伯克利教学大楼的实验室去看看就明白了。实验室中到处是一排排的仪表板、混颇台、电子合成器、集锦唱片只读光盘驱动器、声片剪接器以及许多说不出名堂的东西。总之,你在这里可以见到总价值在1000万美元以上的仪器设备。
信息技术部负贵人马什坐在一台通过音乐数字接口和一台电子合成器相连的计算机旁,他随便编了一段小旋律为我们演示作曲软件的魅力。他先编出钢琴的旋律,再加进鼓、低音提琴、萨克斯管、长笛和弦乐。只用几秒钟,仅仅通过操作一只鼠标,就完成了一支真正的管弦乐曲。再按一下鼠标,打印机就打印出了他创作的乐谱。他认为:“这些机器并不会改变创作,只是改变了创作手段而已,曲子的创作还是由人来完成的。” 每一个学生都被要求必修一门音乐技术课。像戴维·马什这样的老师要学得更深更广一些,要在音乐的电子合成方面为自己打下深厚的基础。“目前,作为专业音乐家,你不仅需要基础音乐技能,也需要具备技术技能。”音乐技术部主任唐普鲁茨说,“我们甚至在为还不存在的职业培养人才。”
专注于音乐,专注于学习
“音乐家不一定非要挨饿。”这是劳伦斯·伯克最常说的话之一。一个音乐家可以是生活在艺术虚幻世界的创造者,但是他同样需要生活技能。伯克利不仅教音乐,同时还教学生穿小礼服时不要穿棕色鞋子,在文雅的婚礼上应该用什么样的节奏演奏,如何使自己的收支平衡,以及为什么在特约表演会上和录音制作时要准时到场等。
对于那些偶然到来的观光客来说,最令他们吃惊的是学生们的刻苦勤奋。那些寻找地方色彩的旅游者发现,这里几乎没有纹前额的学生,也没有戴鼻环的,奇装异服的青年在这里可能比在哈佛还要少。在许多文科院校校园中常见的星期四至星期五的通宵聚会在这里都寻不到踪迹。吸毒和学校纪律从来不是问题。伯克利的学生,或者是因为太认真,或者是因为太穷,或者两者兼而有之,他们不能白白浪费时光。
许多年轻自负的新生,尤其是吉他手,常常是靠自学起家的,大概有半数以上的一年级学生在开学时还不会读谱,这是他们的一个严重缺陷。这些年轻人都需要音乐记谱、基础和弦和听音训练等一系列新生训练课程。另一方面,摇滚乐手们坚信自己的艺术完全是诗歌、心灵和即兴创作的产物而厌恶常规强化训练。但是伯克利坚持要他们学习音乐专业基础课,即使是那些最固执的学生也最终改变了看法。
“摇滚乐手们满脑子出人头地的想法。”表演分部主任门罗说,“摇滚乐手们认为如果他们到22岁还未成名,就算完了。他们来到这里时,已经在考虑自己的第一场音乐会了。我们则对他们讲:‘闭嘴!孩子,静下心来学!’”
音乐天才的摇篮
伯克利音乐学院提供4年制的学士学位课程,学生前两年上基础课:和声、对位、辨音训练和音乐技术,后两年进入各专业课程学习。学院设有12个专业:古典音乐作曲、爵士音乐作曲、现代音乐写作与制作、电影音乐录制、音乐商业管理、音乐教育、音乐制作技术与工程、音乐合成、歌曲写作、音乐疗法、演奏和专业音乐。从伯克利音乐学院毕业的学生,无论学什么专业都必须是一个专业水平的演奏家,至少要精通一种乐器。
伯克利音乐学院的学费十分昂贵,例如1999年伯克利音乐学院的学费为全年15350美元,再加上食宿杂项大约需要2.5万美元。学院提供的奖学金也不少,大约有500万美元。在奖学金的发放上,美国学生和外国学生基本一视同仁,只要是出类拔萃的申请人都有机会获得奖学金。
英文基础差的学生会被安排到一般社区学院先补习英文。学校十分惜才,对招生慎之又慎,对于有音乐天才的和与音乐无缘的考生,录取或不录取会迅速决定。但是许多有才能的学生并非全面发展,他们自认为音乐是自己的天生使命,若被拒之门外,有可能意味着一个音乐人才遭到了扼杀。因而,学院总是想方设法给他们机会,帮他们圆梦。
伯克利的学生们毕业后有极好的机遇从事音乐专业方面的职业。现在来推测爵士乐、摇滚乐和流行音乐在未来几十年如何发展,比1945年劳伦斯·伯克改行从事音乐教学工作时更难。不管发生什么,伯克利音乐学院都将是音乐教育界的主角,这一点毫无疑问。如今,许多专业乐团至少有一名伯克利毕业生。名列前茅的爵士乐歌手,像钢琴家赛勒斯·切斯纳斯特和雅基·泰拉松,他们的成功至少部分归功于在伯克利课堂上的学习和排练。由伯克利音乐学院毕业生所创立的“小伯克利”音乐学校和伯克利音乐学院保持着正式的联系,这些学校在巴黎、巴塞罗那、特拉维夫、雅典和赫尔辛基如雨后春笋般涌现出来。
学生们和教职员工一样,对“联系”一词有着深刻的体验,因为他们在伯克利的生活远远超出了学习读谱、音乐理论和如何演奏一样乐器。他们“以乐会友”,广交同仁,建立了广泛的联系。5年、10年或20年后,音乐界的电影配乐、音乐教育、乐团演奏等领域中的许多骨干肯定会是伯克利音乐学院的校友。
第三篇:伯克利暑期交流
Berkeley暑期学校DIY全攻略发信站: 北大未名站
最近有好几个同学向我咨询Berkeley暑期学校的情况, 鉴于自己跌宕起伏的纯DIY过程可能对以后每年去Berkeley上暑期学校的筒子们有借鉴意义,特意爬上来写一写攻略。
开始之前,我想先比较一下跟学校国合项目和DIY的优势和劣势,以说明DIY适合神马样的筒子。国合的Berkeley summer session项目大约是众summer中每年参加人数最多口碑也比较好的。每年3月报名截止,报完名后交钱给国合,然后就不用操太多心了。费用主要包括:报名费杂费685刀+选课每学分350刀(鉴于Berkeley今年涨学费了,估计summer学费也会涨)+住宿+吃饭+往返机票+签证+结课后一周的旅游(旅游可选)。按照今年的价格,6周5学分的课程,如果不旅游总共要花5w多,旅游再加1w。所谓DIY,就是自己去Berkeley网站上报名,自己订机票租房子预约签证,在米国自己做饭,也就是本人今年的情况。我选了7学分的课,总共花了约4w。也就是说如果选5学分的课就只要花3w多,比国合省了近2w,在p大足够花一年了。因此DIY还是可以给父母省下一笔可观的米滴。除此之外,DIY一个summer是很能锻炼能力的,对于打算毕业后去美帝留学的同学来说,可以算先做了一次模拟,这样以后在申请过程中会对各种程序更加熟悉。另外,如果你自己做饭的话,这不失为一个锻炼厨艺的好时机。拿本人来说,这次出国前从来没自己做过一顿像样的饭,回来的时候就已经学会了各种家常菜的做法了。下面开始介绍DIY的具体做法,分为前期准备、报名选课、订机票、签证、租房、吃饭及其他七个部分。
1、前期准备办好护照以及带visa或者master的信用卡;CET4/GRE/TOEFL/IELTS当中至少考过一个且已经拿到成绩。
2、报名选课去Berkeley官网,选择Applying to Berkeley
Summer Session,就进入了暑期学校页面http://summer.berkeley.edu/ 非UC学生今年是2月15号开始报名。在网站上注册一个报名的账号,填报名表,报名的同时选课、交费,之后还要上传几份证明材料,包括护照、英语成绩单、存款证明等。存款证明有网页上要求的数额就行了,去年是2500刀。注意办签证对选课的学分有要求。3周的session至少要3学分,6周至少要5学分。虽然选课系统关闭很晚,但报名晚了的话很多热门的课就选满了,所以还是尽早吧。
3、订机票报完名就可以根据上课时间订机票了,不需要等选课结果出来,因为除非你要选的课已经选满了或者英语成绩不合要求,我还没见过他家踢人的。订机票可以找代理或者专门的订票网站,订得越早越便宜,像我去年3月订的国航的往返机票是八千多,到六月就要一万多了。
4、签证等你的报名账号里显示材料通过审核了你就可以预约签证了。学校会给你寄I20表格,相当于邀请函,面签的时候要带着,但是预约签证的时候不用。I20一般一周能寄到,所以你预约签证的时候要保证面签前能收到I20.预约签证就是拿着护照去中信银行买签证费和预约电话卡。签证费900多,电话卡8分钟的36.买回来之后就可以用电话卡预约签证时间了。注意每年4月15日前后预约的人特别多,在那之后预约会等很长时间,所以建议尽早准备。预约完了就是到了约好的日子带着材料去美国大使馆面签就行了。注意在面签之前还要去美国大使馆网站上交那个200刀的SEVIS fee。面签要带的材料一般包括护照、I20、签证费收据、SEVIS费收据、在学证明、存款证明、两张两寸照片,其他有帮助的材料也可以带,具体要求参见美国大使馆网站。
5、租房租房是DIY过程中略麻烦的一个环节。Berkeley暑期也提供宿舍,但是相当宰人,最最便宜的六周也要2000刀,比学期中间贵很多,而且是跟食堂绑定的,而食堂又贵又难吃。我怎么知道宿舍宰人呢?因为我去年租房子的室友就是Berkeley本科生,她们平时也住宿舍,但是暑假宿舍租金太坑爹,所以她们不惜来回搬家折腾暑假也要搬出来住,我走的时候她们也要搬回宿舍去了。下面说说租房。Berkeley
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CalRentals , https://calrentals.housing.berkeley.edu/ 去上面注册个账号,不用交钱也可以使用。据我去年的经验,目前上面的房源不会太多,4-5月放出的房子最多。在网站上搜索的时候注意限制房子的租期和位置。一般来说满足暑期学校需求的房子都在转租的那一类里面。租金的变化范围很大,每月每人少至两三百刀多至两三千刀的都有,住房条件自然差别也很大了。我有个同学曾经租到过一个月100刀的房子,不过这样的机会是可遇不可求的。一般来说每人每月不超过600刀的就算便宜了,租金便宜且离学校近的房子是很抢手的,所以建议看到这样的房子就赶快联系房主敲定吧,不要老想着还价了,跟住学校宿舍比怎么都很便宜了。建议找房子的时候同时开着google地图,这样好知道上面给出的地址离学校有多远。
特别提示1:校园外的东南部是黑人聚居区,建议租房最好不要在这一块。以及,不管住在哪里晚上都最好别一个人出门,女生尤其要注意。
特别提示2:跟房主谈好了之后最好签一份书面协议。虽然说美国人通常比较讲信用,但是要以防万一不是。
特别提示3:每年北大都有一大票人是自己租房子的,建议找人合租,一来分摊房租,二来合住感觉上更安全。很多房子里面是不带家具或者家具很少的,可视情况要求房主给你配家具,实在不行还可以自己带个充气床去睡。
6、吃饭前面说过,学校食堂又贵又难吃。而Berkeley周围有很多各国风味的馆子,吃货去那里可以一饱口福了。建议去google地图或者yelp这样的网站上搜索附近的馆子,这样可以找到评价较高的。下面列出几家我吃过的觉得不错的馆子。
Cheese Board Pizza, 在Shattuck Ave上,异常火爆的一家pizza店,天天饭点要排队,pizza确实好吃,必胜客神马的跟他家比简直弱爆了。特色是每天只卖一款pizza一款甜点。人均消费约10刀。La Note,也在Shattuck Ave上,法国馆子。牛排、长棍面包、浓汤都很棒。缺点是服务员比较势利,不给小费就对你爱理不理的。人均消费约15刀(不含小费)。Gypsy's Trattoria Italiano,在Durant Ave上,意大利馆子,意面很棒,记得有个意面配蔬菜沙拉的套餐很实惠,不到9刀。Subway,就是赛百味啦,卖三明治的。离学校最近的一家就在学校正对Telegraph Ave的那个校门对面。三明治的配菜自己选,品种很多,窃以为比国内的好吃。6寸的4.95刀,12寸的6点几刀,性价比不错。一般女生吃6寸的男生吃12寸的就够了。(像我这种猪一样的女生也要吃12寸的……掩面遁走……)Top Dog,学校南北各有一家,专卖各种hot dog。我去的是南边那家,在Durant Ave上,经常要排队,hot dog确实好吃。一个hot dog大概3刀,我吃两个就饱了。McDonarld’s,这个不用说了,在Shattuck Ave上。鸡腿汉堡+大薯条+大可乐的套餐6点几刀。赶脚分量比北京的足。特别提示:不建议去Berkeley的中餐馆,会毁了你对祖国饮食的印象的。不过据我的美国香港移民二代室友说,三番市内唐人街的中餐馆还不错。去外面吃相对自己做饭总是很贵的,最省米的办法还是自己做饭了。据我估算,早餐1刀,中晚餐2刀就可以吃得不错了。要实现自己做饭,首先你租的房子要有厨房,其次你要找到买菜的地方,再次你要会基本的做菜方法。下面重点说说买菜的地方。Berkeley市区有几个比较大的grocery store,买菜比较方便,不过菜也偏贵。推荐Shattuck Ave上的两家,一家是SafeWay,第一次去填张表办会员卡就可以有很多会员价优惠,他家除肉类外的菜都相对便宜;另一家叫Andronico’s,肉类价格一般比SafeWay便宜,而且关键是肉类有小份的,适合一个人买,不像SafeWay的肉类都是超大家庭装。市区的东西都是偏贵的,要买便宜的菜和其他日用品可以坐40分钟25路公交去郊区的一家大型华人超市99 Ranch Market。除了便宜外,他家的主要优势是可以买到各种中国特色的食品和其他用具,比如中式面条、方便面、粉丝粉条、豆腐乳、酱油、速冻水饺、汤圆、小笼汤包等等,基本上中国有啥那里就有啥。
7、交通、购物及其他从三番机场到Berkeley有地铁,那边叫bart,中间要换一次车,建议在起点站找工作人员问清路线并要一份地铁线路图。顺便吐槽一下美帝公交系统比天朝贵了远了去了,从机场到Berkeley要9点几刀。此外,Berkeley市区有很多公交,凭报到时注册的学生证可以免费乘车。但是,不要以为那真是免费的,事实上,每月60刀的公交费已经包括在你交给学校的钱里了。如果不用学生卡,一般上车就是2刀……购物方面,日常生活用品在Berkeley的各种grocery和pharmacy就可以了,除了上面吃饭篇提到的两家grocery,还可以去CVS、WalGreen等。如果要买化妆品、衣服等,Berkeley也有一些专卖店,如Clinique、Kiehl’s、Levi’s、Adidas等等。要买奢侈品、电子产品等等,建议去三番市区的Macy’s一类的大商场买,或者在机场免税店也可以。不过,免税店的品牌还是比较有限的。手机费的问题,你可以选择在国内开通国际漫游,也可以去那边租一个临时号码。我当时租了一个AT&T的号码,包月50刀,美国国内电话随便打,短信全球随便发,GPRS上网不限流量。再说一说安全问题。白天还是比较安全的,可以随意出门,晚上就最好结伴而行了,而且尽量别到黑人聚居区去。Berkeley校方提供免费的BearWalk服务,也就是晚上你如果一个人要从学校走回你住的地方去,可以打电话叫一个人来陪你走。不过你住的地方必须在学校规定的范围内,具体情况报到开会的时候老师会说。
手快写断了,就写这么多吧。祝大家飞跃顺利!
第四篇:桑德伯格在UC伯克利毕业演讲[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 “lean in to the suck.” It was good advice, but not really what I meant by “lean 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:伯克利音乐学院知名校友
伯克利音乐学院(英语:Berklee College of Music),世界著名独立音乐学院,位于美国波士顿。伯克利音乐学院建于1945年,由劳伦斯·伯克创办的,原名施林格音乐大厦,是以伯克的老师约瑟夫·施林格命名。1954年,伯克以他的儿子李·伯克为名将学校的名字改为伯克利音乐学校。最初主要教学爵士乐、摇滚乐和部分其他地方难以学到的现代音乐。
留学360金牌留学顾问老师介绍,伯克利音乐学院面向世界招生,录取率为25%(2012-2013学年),学制为四年,并提供音乐学士学位。2003年设置了一个网上班。“鸟叔”(PSY)、王力宏、大卫·鲍伊、U2乐队吉他手Edge、AERO SMITH的主唱史蒂夫·泰勒都毕业于此。伯克利音乐学院有200余位校友曾获格莱美奖。现任校长是罗杰·布朗(Roger H.Brown),2004年上任。伯克利音乐学院有21座建筑物。每年举办多场学生和系音乐会。它直接与学院的录音室和设施关联,使音乐会可以专业和高质量地被记录下来。此外每年这里还举办多个外部的表演、特殊学习班等。
知名校友
顾嘉辉(香港著名作曲家)(于1961年就读)
翁清溪(台湾著名作曲家)(于1973年就读)
张弘毅(台湾著名作曲家)(于1979年就读)
吉田洁(日本著名作曲家)(于1985年就读)
伍乐城(香港著名作曲家)(于1991年就读)
鲍比达(香港著名作曲家)(于1978年就读)
陈辉阳(香港著名作曲家)
陈永良(香港著名作曲家)(于1976年就读)
黄荻钧(台湾著名作曲家及和声编写音乐人及演员)(于2004年毕业)
李欣芸(台湾独立流行音乐人)
王力宏(亚洲天王巨星)
熊汝霖(中国大陆实力歌手)
PSY(本名朴载相,韩国著名歌手 代表作江南style)
Henry Lau(中文名刘宪华,歌手,音乐制作人,著名韩国组合Super Junior M成员)
Hemenway(日本摇滚乐队,成员均为伯克利学生)
THE RiCECOOKERS(日本摇滚乐队)
Lia
Park Bom(中文名朴春 韩国著名女子组合2NE1成员)
田中公平(日本作曲家)
川江美奈子(日本钢琴家)
Steve Vai(八九十年代最杰出的吉他演奏家之一)
Corrinne May(旅美创作歌手符美云)
Yangpa(洋葱)(韩国知名歌手)
李路(韩国知名歌手)
郑舒尹(台湾歌手)
爱普瑞(加拿大著名小提琴家)
王珏(中国歌手)
朱明瑛(中国著名歌舞表演艺术家)
霍华德·肖(加拿大著名电影音乐家)
张慧珍(韩国歌手)
何真真(中国台湾音乐创作人)
朴来美(《美女老师的偶像养成记》中ukiss东浩的英语老师)
诺尔曼(中国大陆90后创作型新人歌手)
黄一(中国好声音第一期杨坤组学员)
陈雪燃(北京航空航天大学26系新媒体学院13届毕业生,北航知名校友)
刘雨潼(中国最强音HOPE组合队长,2013中国最强音亚军,2015中国好歌曲第二季刘欢组优秀学员)
Mikey(本名 Kim Michael Jung 二段横踢成员 韩国音乐制作人)
张杰(中国内地乐坛领军唱将,于2013年在此校进修三个月)
宋秉洋(原SM娱乐公司练习生,现自主创作型歌手)
于文文(加拿大籍华裔,创作型歌手)
蒋瑶嘉(第一季《中国好歌曲》参赛选手)
黎子明(第二季《中国好歌曲》参赛选手,Calculasian清唱团主唱)
张凯迪(中国内地女歌手)