NACIS 毕业生分享：IB让我成为终身学习者(2)

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上周我们分享了NACIS第一届12年级毕业生Evian的一小段故事。今天我们接着分享她在NACIS的这几年里还有哪些有意义的经历。

服务，是IB学习中重要的一环，而通过学校的全球资源，我有幸前往了诺德安达坦桑尼亚基地，那段经历弥足珍贵。

跟我一起参加那次活动的，还有另外4-5所诺德安达集团学校的学生。通过前两天在国家野生动物园的露营，我们很快就打成了一片。不过接下来的两项活动才是坦桑尼亚之行的重头戏。

在很多人看来，公益活动可能更多的只是形式主义，但我们真正通过自己的双手帮助当地的村民搭建羊舍和学校。老师只给了我们一张图纸，之后的搭建工作都是我们亲手完成的，锯木头，钉钉子，最终成功建造了一所羊舍。我们还送给村民一只羊，他们可以通过饲养得到经济来源。后面两天，我们还一起建造了小学教室，用木板制作课桌椅，要不是这次旅行，我想我可能永远都不会有这样的经历。

一直生活在物质条件比较好的环境里面，我很少想过世界上还有很多人需要别人的帮助。现在我知道，哪怕是一名高中生，大家的力量聚集起来可以帮助很多人的生活。在关注学业以外，我们可以做很多帮助社会的事情。

最后我想谈谈IB，IB是国际文凭大学预科课程，这个课程体系起初对我这样从体制内出来的孩子是有一定挑战性的。要完成IB课程，对学习方法有很高的要求。但也正因为IB课程，我们的批判性思维和独立思考能力得到很大的提升。

学习不再是老师发卷子我们做卷子，通过题海战术来应付考试这么简单了。在我刚接触写论文的时候，我心里是很抵触的，一想到要写4000字我就无从下手。其实写的过程是比较流畅的，最难的是写之前的思考和定主题的过程。

在12年级的一次论文准备中，我毫无头绪，题目改了又改，最终把主题锁定为“美国喜剧和古希腊喜剧的对比和联系”，我花费了大量的时间找素材，找论点，在我快要放弃的时候，终于找到了几篇类似的参考文献。但是因为论文需要动用语言学的知识而我对语言学没有任何研究，就请教了我的英语老师。

我们进行了头脑风暴最终得出一个研究方向，再针对这个方向我做了深度的分析，把论文分为了几个部分来陈述，而不再是一想到就让人恐惧的4000字长篇大论。之后的写作过程非常顺利，我经常由于灵感爆发熬夜到4点还在完善思路和例证到了“废寝忘食”的地步。

有了这次经历后，我发现写论文就是一个探究自己真正感兴趣问题的过程，通过自己选择学科课题，提出假设，搜集资料，完成论证，去完成课题解决问题。这样的自主学习过程和以后大学的学习模式是衔接的。我们不再是按部就班的完成老师布置的作业，最重要的是，我学习到了独立思考并解决问题的方法，IB让我变成终身学习者，真正喜欢上学术研究，提升自我。

大家都说IB很难，但其实只要学会正确的学习方法是完全可以攻克的，并且收获的不止是学习成果，更有好的学习习惯，尤其是时间管理。我们经常会要写很多论文，但对于初次尝试写长论文的学生而言，是要花很多时间的，所以一定要给自己充足的时间做准备，利用碎片化的时间来完成课业就显得极为重要。

三年前的我，

没有勇气做演讲，害怕胆怯，从来不会在课堂里主动发表自己的观点；

三年后的我，

会主动要求加入演讲活动，戏剧社，音乐节等等公开表演，我在一次次的尝试和老师同学的鼓励下战胜了自己内心对聚光灯的恐惧，我挣脱了固化的思想枷锁，我的思维变得更加开阔，我更乐意提出自己的观点，和同学们探讨，搜集资料去论证观点...

诺德安达改变了我的人生轨迹，8月我即将前往美国乔治华盛顿大学开始新的大学生活，但是我会永远记得诺德安达这三年来给我的帮助，让我蜕变成一个全新的Evian！

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Last week, we Shared a short story about Evian, who is one of the first graduates from Grade 12 at NACIS. Today, we continue to share more about her experiences.  

Service is an important part during IB learning. Through the global resources of our school, I was lucky enough to visit the Nord Anglia Base in Tanzania, which was a precious experience. I joined the activity together with students from four or five other schools of Nord Anglia. After camping at the national wildlife park, we quickly became friends. But the next two events are the highlights of the trip.

In many people's eyes, the public service activities may be more formalistic, but we really helped local villagers to build sheep cot and school by our own hands. The teacher only gave us a piece of drawing, and we finished the construction work by ourselves. We sawed wood and nailed nails, and finally built a sheep cot successfully. We also gave the villagers a sheep, which they could raise for income. In the next two days, we built a primary school classroom together, and made desks and chairs out of wooden boards. Without this trip, I think I would never have such an experience.

Living in a better material environment, I seldom think that there are many people in the world who need help from others. Now I know that even as high school students, we can help lots of people. There are many things we can do to improve society besides focusing on our studies.

Finally, I would like to talk about IB, which is the international baccalaureate diploma program. It is initially a challenge for a student like me coming out of a national school. To complete IB courses, we need good learning methods. During learning IB courses, our critical thinking and independent thinking ability have been greatly improved. 

Learning is no longer that teachers give papers and we finish them. It is not simple to cope with the test through finishing excessive assignments. When I began to write a paper for the first time, I was very resistant to it. At the thought of writing 4000 words, I had no way to start. In fact, the writing process is relatively smooth, and the most difficult thing is the process of thinking and determining the theme before writing.

In the preparation of a paper in grade 12, I had no idea and changed the topic again and again. Finally, the topic was "The Comparison and Connection Between American Comedy and Ancient Greek Comedy". I spent a lot of time searching materials and arguments. Since I need linguistics knowledge and I know nothing about linguistics, I asked my English teacher to help me.

We had a brainstorming session, concluded a research direction, and then I made a deep analysis on the theme. The paper is divided into several parts, rather than a lecture with 4000 words. After that, the writing process went very smoothly. I often stayed up until 4 o 'clock to improve my ideas and examples due to bursts of inspiration and forgot to eat and sleep. 

After that, I found that writing a paper is a process of exploring the issues that I am really interested in. I choose my own subject topics, put forward hypotheses, collected data, completed argumentats and solved problems. Such an autonomous learning process relates to the learning mode of universities. We no longer finish the homework assigned by teachers step by step. The most important thing is that I learn to think independently and solve problems. IB makes me become a lifelong learner who really loves academic research and makes improvements.

It is said IB is difficult. But in fact, if you master the right learning methods, you can overcome it completely. During the process, you will not only gain learning results, but also form good learning habits, especially time management. We often must write a lot of papers and it takes a lot of time for students who are trying to write a long paper for the first time, so it is very important to give yourself enough time to prepare and use the fragmented time to complete the course.

Three years ago, I was scared and timid with no courage to make a speech. 

Three years later, I will take the initiative to join the speech activity, drama club, music and public performances. With the encouragement from my teachers and classmates, I beat the inner fear of standing under spotlights and broke free of chains. As I become open-minded, I would prefer to put forward my own ideas, explore with my classmates, and collect data to an argument...

The three-year learning at NACIS changed the course of my life. In August, I will leave for George Washington University to start my college life, but I will remember the support from NACIS forever which contributes to a brand-new Evian.

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