撰稿人:12年级 王梓骏(原中国矿大附中学生)
从来到加拿大便听说了麦克马斯特大学这个人人皆知的名校,它位于安大略省汉密尔顿市,是加拿大顶尖的大学之一还是U15高校的成员之一。正好,学校这周有参观麦克马斯特大学的活动,便立即报了名。
周六一早,我们便坐上校车前往了汉密尔顿市。汉密尔顿距离苏安是有点远,车程大概1个多小时,10点左右我们便到了麦马校园内。下车后,老师带我们进入校园里的一间教室,由去年毕业的学长给我们讲述大学生活即自己的感想。学长从高中选课讲到了如何选专业,然后如何在大学中学习并调节自己的情绪和朋友之间的相处。学长的幽默和真实,让大家受益匪浅。
接下来就是校园的参观啦,我们先进入到了商学院大楼,麦马的商学院是世界前一百强的商学院之一,并且以应用经济学科而闻名。里面不仅仅只有商科专业,而且还是学生读语言班的场所。里面最令人印象深刻的便是一间很大很大的阶梯教室,有两个很大很大的投影屏,听带队的老师说这里经常是用来考试和上大课的,很有高大上的感觉。出了商学院大楼往前走几步,便看到了著名的核反应堆,它是英联邦国家中第一个拥有研究用途的核子反应堆的学校,麦马核反应堆(McMaster Nuclear Reactor)是加拿大所有大学中唯一一个中等流量(medium-flux)的核反应堆。
接着,我们到了工学院大楼,工学院是麦马著名的专业之一。还没进大楼,我们便看见大楼门口摆放了一枚很大很大建筑师之戒,据听说,每名建筑师在此学院毕业后,便可以获得一枚像此一样的正常版建筑师之戒,真的好有自豪感!
继续往前走,便看到这个校园中最具有古老感觉的一排建筑,其中一个便是历届颁奖典礼、开学典礼或者毕业典礼的一个大厅,有时候也会作为考试的地点,它带给我们的感觉是特别像一个教堂,两面墙上挂着杰出人士的画像,进去之后感觉特别庄严敬畏。
时间过的真快,麦马参观就这么结束了,但让我们充分了解了麦马的校园生活和基础设施,学院分布。其实还有很多很多我都没有列述出来,但是,麦马校园的参观让我体会到了回到大自然的感受,处处都能闻到关于自然的气息,天空草地让我无比向往,校园生活更让我无比憧憬!
(以下为作者英文游记原稿)
When I came to Canada, I heard about McMaster University, a well-known school located in Hamilton city, which is one of the top universities in Canada and one of the U15 universities. This weekend, the school had a visit to MacMaster University and I immediately signed up for the tour.
On Saturday morning, we got on the school bus and headed to McMaster University in Hamilton. Hamilton is a little far from SuOn, about an hour's driving away. We arrived at campus around 10 o 'clock. After getting off the bus, Ms. Tina led us to a classroom in the student centre. The senior who graduated from high school last year told us about his college life. Senior students learned how to choose high school courses according to the university program's requirement, and then how to adjust their emotions and get along with friends in college. Senior's humor and truth brought us benefit.
Next, a tour of the university. First, we entered the business school building. The business school in McMaster University is one of the top 100 business schools in the world and is famous for its Economics program. The building is not only used for business majors but also for language classes. The most impressive room is a very large staircase classroom, with two very large projection screen. Our teacher said that here is often used for exams and large classes. A few steps outside the business school building, you can see the famous Nuclear Reactor. It is the first university in the commonwealth that have a research Nuclear Reactor. The McMaster Nuclear Reactoris the only medium-flux Nuclear Reactor among all the universities in Canada.
Then we went to the engineering building, one of the most famous programs in McMaster University. Before entering the building, we saw a very large ring placed outside the entrance of the building. It is said that every engineer can get a regularversion of this ring after graduating from this college.
Continue to go forward, then saw the campus has the most ancient row of buildings. One of them is used to hold successive awards ceremony, opening ceremony or graduation ceremony, sometimes as the venue for the exam. It brings us a special feeling of a church. On both walls hang portraits of outstanding people, the feeling particularly solemn awe.
Time flies, and the visit to McMaster university is over, but it gave us a full understanding of McMaster university campus life and infrastructure, and the distribution of colleges. In fact, there are many things I have not listed, but McMaster University let me experience the feeling of returning to nature, smell the breath of nature everywhere, the sky and grass let me yearn for, the campus life let me look forward!