我選故我愛 高考畢業後勇敢選專業

Wearing a simple cap and gown, Xue Yifan, 22, looks solemnly into the camera. Standing in front of the big library on campus, her graduation photo is a bit unusual - she is all alone. That’s because Xue is the only paleontology graduate from Peking University this year.
身着學士服，頭戴學士帽，22歲的薛逸凡在鏡頭前顯得很嚴肅。同樣以高大的圖書館爲背景，薛世凡的畢業照卻有些與衆不同——照片中只有她一個人，因爲她是北京大學古生物學專業今年唯一的畢業生。

The photo went viral after it was posted online. People are impressed by her determination to pursue the academic degree. She devoted herself to a seemingly dull major instead of jumping on the bandwagon.
這張畢業照在被傳到網上後迅速走紅，她選擇這個專業的決心更令人印象深刻。放棄了當下最“火”的專業，薛逸凡卻選擇了一個看似枯燥無味的專業。

But Xue is not the only student with a genuinely academic goal. There are many more students who choose less popular majors and stick to them, simply because they love what they are learning about.
勇敢追求自己學術目標的遠不只薛逸凡一個人，還有很多學生也和她一樣因爲興趣愛好而選擇了相對冷門的專業。

Pure sound
純粹的聲音

Song Jiazhe, 21, is an audiology student at Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. His university offers the only audiology program for undergraduate students in China. About 100 students graduate from the major every year.
21歲的宋佳哲（音譯）就讀於浙江中醫藥大學，因爲這所學校是中國唯一本科開設聽力學專業的高校，每年約100名該專業的大學生從這裏畢業。

“The number of graduates is so small that people seldom even notice the existence of our major,” Song says. But he believes his major is of great importance.
宋佳哲說“這個專業的畢業生實在太少了，人們幾乎都沒聽說過我們專業”。但他堅信自己的專業十分重要。

“We take care of newborn babies and seniors,” he says. Checking the hearing of newborn babies and helping seniors with hearing loss are the two major responsibilities audiology graduates shoulder after their graduation.
他說：“我們照顧新生兒與老年人，爲新生兒檢查聽力，幫助聽力受損的老年人是我們專業畢業生的主要職責。”

In order to achieve this goal, Song studies hard and values every opportunity to practice. He spends every vacation interning at hospitals. “I am always the first to arrive and the last to leave, just to get as much real experience as possible,” he says.
爲了能履行這一目標，宋佳哲努力學習，珍惜每一個實踐機會。每個假期，他都在醫院實習，他說：“爲了能更多的積累實際經驗，我常常是最早到、最晚走的。”

Classy major
優雅的專業

Compared with Song, Meng Ziwei’s major seems more entertaining. The 19-year-old is studying golf management at Shenzhen University. It’s a newly launched major, explains Meng. Her department has less than 100 students, who will work as golf coaches and golf club managers once they graduate.
相較於宋佳哲的專業，孟紫薇（音譯）的專業似乎更有意思。這位19歲的姑娘就讀於深圳大學高爾夫管理專業。孟紫薇解釋道，這是一個新開設的專業，他們系學生人數不足100，而他們畢業之後將成爲高爾夫教練或者高爾夫俱樂部的管理人員。

However, the major requires hard work. Meng and her peers not only have classes on business management, but must also attend golf training. “I practice golf three times a week,” she says. Some of her peers even practice on a daily basis. “I love what I’m learning from the bottom of my heart,” she says, “so the tough training is never a problem for me.”
不過，這個專業並不輕鬆。孟紫薇和她的同學們不僅需要完成商業管理類課程，還要參加高爾夫球訓練。她說：“我每週需要練習三次高爾夫球。”而她的一些同學甚至每天都參加訓練。但是，她說：“我真心喜歡自己的專業，所以再辛苦的訓練於我也不是問題。”

Dinosaur fever
恐龍發燒友

Another student who chose a major based on her interest is Bai Wanyi, a 20-year-old student of paleontology at Shenyang Normal University. She has been a paleontology fan ever since she was in elementary school. “Those dinosaurs just amazed me so much that I decided to study them,” she says. While her peers bought beautiful Barbie dolls, Bai collected rocks. Finally she enrolled in a paleontology program despite resistance from her parents.
同樣因爲興趣選擇自己專業的還有白婉怡（音譯）。20歲的她目前就讀於瀋陽師範大學古生物學專業。早在上小學的時候，她就是一個古生物迷，她說“那些恐龍深深地吸引了我，於是我決定將來研究它們。”小夥伴們買漂亮的芭比娃娃時，白婉怡卻在收集岩石。最後，她頂住來自父母的壓力，終於進入古生物專業學習。

“In my eyes, paleontology is not a dull subject that only deals with old rocks. Instead, it studies our past by examining the fossils of ancient life forms,” Bai says. She believes that mastering the present is based on a good understanding of the past.
白婉怡說，“在我看來，古生物專業並不是只和古老岩石打交道的枯燥專業，相反，它讓我們通過檢測古生物化石，瞭解人類的過去。”她相信，只有充分了解過去，才能更好地把握當下。

“I’m sticking to the choice I made and I will further my studies in paleontology after I graduate,” she says.
白婉怡說：“我會堅持自己的選擇，在畢業後繼續鑽研古生物學。”