藤校深造、脸书启航，她用事实证明别样的高考选择

Please scroll down for the English version-UNNC alumna explores possibilities of career at Facebook.

从求学到职场，汤舒兰在外人的眼中一直是稳扎稳打的姑娘，具有独特的见解。前不久，远在美国Facebook工作的她换了一个部门，研究内部平台和工具。

接到母校宁波诺丁汉大学（简称：宁诺）的连接，她真诚地表示，感恩母校在自己在校期间提供了许多平台和机会，让她更早地触及到了更广阔的世界。

当初汤舒兰以高出天津一本线112分的优异成绩选择了宁诺，她回忆道：“我没有选择常规款的985高校，父母刚开始非常不理解，之后他们咨询了一位在天津大学做教授的朋友，这才放心！”

她说，自己一直喜欢宁诺的英式教育平台，各种资源也相对宽泛些，她想走一条不寻常的路。

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以社团拓宽人际圈 转专业坚定求学目标

汤舒兰拿着全额奖学金开启了宁诺的求学之路。一进学校，她就感受到了浓郁的国际风，加入了飞盘社，结识了一众极限飞盘的爱好者。平日一起训练，周末去全国各地和大学生队伍、社会上的俱乐部打比赛。也因此，舒兰得以代表宁诺去英国和马来西亚出征诺丁汉大学三校运动会，三届里面拿到两次飞盘的团队冠军。

受到队友的影响，大一学期末，舒兰从财务管理专业转到了计算机专业：

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报考的时候其实并不清楚自己喜欢的方向。在飞盘社接触到很多计算机专业的同学，逐渐对这个领域有了了解，才发觉这才是我想要的。程序员的工作原来不是那么枯燥，而是用一种特有的方式来解决问题！

为了进一步确定方向，汤舒兰大二时就开始跟着专业教授做科研项目。暑假期间，她在学校与全球图形技术和数字媒体处理器行业领导厂商英伟达共建的实验室里，接触到了大数据、虚拟现实等不同的领域。

大三，汤舒兰获得了去澳洲一大学免学费交换一年的机会，但此时的她已经萌生了去美国深造的想法，因而放弃了这次留学体验，转而在暑假去宁诺在韩国的合作院校参加免学费的夏校。在那里，她接触到了来自美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学的教授，体验了美式专业课，坚定了藤校的申请之路。

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用创意敲开名校大门 顺利入职Facebook

大四时，汤舒兰申请了10个硕士项目，收到了哥伦比亚大学、杜克大学、莱斯大学、南加利福尼亚大学和纽约大学5所世界顶尖大学的录取通知书，最终她选择了常青藤名校、美国排名第三的哥伦比亚大学。

汤舒兰说自己能被录取，一方面是GPA换算成美国标准基本是满分，另一方面就是有很多相关的科研项目经历。她的毕业项目通过机器学习分析NBA球员的移动轨迹，以帮助分析各队战术。项目将专业和个人爱好紧密结合，也为名校申请加了不少分。

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宁诺的教学模式和管理方式给我们很多机会锻炼自己，计划、思考自己未来的成长方向，这对于个人发展非常关键。其次，全英文的教学让我打下了扎实的语言基础，所以以后我无论是读研还是工作，可以说都比较适应！

因此，汤舒兰从哥伦比亚大学毕业后，就留在美国工作，进入了世界知名社交网站脸书（Facebook），经过轮岗之后加入广告部门，和同事们一起搭建功能强大的广告框架，对于全球的程序员来说，能在Facebook工作，是实力的象征。

其实，汤舒兰与Facebook的缘分始于在宁诺申研时参与的一个APP应用程序开发项目。一起做项目的还有一个当时在Facebook工作的工程师。汤舒兰因为出色的能力获得了该工程师的内部推荐，在去美国深造时通过两轮面试，被录用为Facebook的实习生，最终顺利入职。

汤舒兰说，如今回首校园生活，自己向来是一个按计划实施的人，但进入宁诺之后，自己的自主能力以及学业职业的规划能力更加得到了锻炼，而这些良好的习惯和前瞻性的逻辑才成全了如今的自己。

UNNC alumna explores possibilities of career at Facebook

Shulan Tang, a graduate of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) and currently an employee of Facebook in the US, has always been grateful to her alma mater. From her undergraduate study to her career, she appreciated the various opportunities and platforms provided by UNNC to develop and improve herself, bringing her to a wider world.

Longing for an international environment and a British educational experience, Shulan chose UNNC and obtained a full scholarship. She enjoyed the free campus atmosphere and joined the flying disc sports club - UFO, where she enjoyed sports and made a lot of good friends. She has represented UNNC in the Tri-Campus Games and won the team championship twice.

Under the influence of her teammates, Shulan found her passion in computer sciences and decided to transfer. “Programming is not as tedious as I imagined, but to solve problems with a unique way.”

Driven by this interest, Shulan began to explore the area and did research projects with professors in her second year, where she was exposed to different fields such as big data and virtual reality in the laboratory jointly built by UNNC and Nvidia.

With such accumulation and efforts in the professional area, in her final year Shulan received a handful of offers from top universities including Duke University, Rice University, University of Southern California, and New York University. Eventually, she chose Columbia University, which ranks third in the US.

When speaking of the reasons of her success, Shulan thinks that an outstanding GPA and her abundant scientific research project experience played a key role. She said: “The education style at UNNC gave me a lot of space and opportunities to develop myself and plan for my future study and career. The English teaching laid a solid language foundation for me, which made me more adaptable to new environments.”

After graduating from Columbia, Shulan entered the world-renowned social networking company Facebook. She recalled that this job opportunity actually started during her undergraduate study, when she learned of an engineer of Facebook in an application development project. She was noticed for her excellent performance and eminent capabilities, and was offered an interview opportunity thereafter.

Looking back on campus life, Shulan summarised that the impact of UNNC is reflected in her exceptional self-learning and planning abilities. The good habits she developed here undoubtedly brought her to the place she is now.

English | Elena Yang，ETT

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