Admission Guidance for Students Aboard 2018 Editor’s note: 　　With the cold wind rustling in the air, the weather becomes cold, and with leaves shaking down, the dews drop to be frost. In the days the weather is gradually getting colder, and people gradually putting on winter clothes, Sanquan College of Xinxiang Medical University welcomes the first batch of students aboard. In order to make students aboard adapt to the new environment and integrate into the new life better, in this issue the author puts forward suggestions for everyone in according with the actual situation of the college, aiming at the study, life, safety and other aspects of students aboard. Of Study As a freshman, you should have a preliminary understanding of the new learning environment at first. Teaching and experiments are mainly distributed in the Jinxue Building and the Lixue Building, and the classrooms and the laboratories in the campus are spacious and well-lighted equipped with multimedia equipments which will provide you a superior learning environment. The college library has specific features, the environment in the library is graceful and there are plenty of books for you to borrow. Coming to a new living environment, facing new interpersonal relationship, everything is new for students aboard, if you want to integrate into the new environment quickly, language is the first barrier. Therefore, the courses for students aboard in the first year are mainly language-related courses, such as comprehensive, cultural, listening, and oral etc. and the teaching teachers selected are excellent teachers who are proficient in bilingual teaching in both Chinese and English, so as to ensure that students aboard can master Chinese listening and speaking abilities more quickly, thus to lay a solid foundation for the next step of professional learning. The first batch of students aboard are mainly clinical majors, which have some characteristics such as the course contents being more professional and learning contents of medicine being abstract and difficult to understand, even if for Chinese students studying these contents, there will be some difficulties. Therefore, according to the characteristics of students aboard, the teaching methods, teaching schedule and course materials of students aboard' specialized courses are very different from those of domestic students. In the first year, what the students aboard mainly do is to break through the language barrier, and then they begin to study in the specialized classes gradually, and the teachers will adopt various methods in the process of imparting knowledge, such as adopting the method of combining theory teaching, experiment teaching and practice teaching, to help students aboard master professional knowledge quickly. Of Life New life is established on a new social circle, when living and studying in Sanquan College, students aboard must cultivate their own communication skills. Roommates are the people you contact with at the earliest in college life, and your living habits, ways of dealing with people must be different. In daily communication, when facing problems, we should solve any problem by replacing thinking, with more understanding, tolerance, and caring, to win mutual respect. During the college, full of energy and healthy body are key elements for effective and efficient learning, so students aboard should do exercises and keep a reasonable diet. There are two restaurants in the Pingyuan Campus, the Shiquan Restaurant and the Shimei Restaurant. The restaurants are equipped with LCD TVs for students. There are several varieties of food, such as family-style dishes, special snacks, pastries etc. to meet the needs of different tastes. The college carries out regular sanitary inspection and strict daily management on the restaurants to guarantee the food safety and healthy dining. Campus card is an essential form of payment for the students aboard on campus, such as in restaurants and supermarkets, so it is very important to keep the campus card, and if you find that the campus is missing, you should go to the campus card management center to report the loss in time. In college, there are living facilities such as printing center, supermarket, barber shop, cash machine, communication business hall etc. and the new campus also has express companies and fruit shops etc. so as to make the life of students aboard more convenient. Of Safety Students aboard should ensure their own personal safety and improve their security awareness, besides the college’s comprehensive security and guard system. Private belongings especially the credit card, cash, mobile, computers and other valuable articles are to be protected well. Please collect the belongings well and lock the windows and door before left dormitory. Do not believe in any door-to-door salesman, and call the teachers on duty or the security guard on campus; in order to contact to protect students from fraud, we suggested you ask the instructor for any question or help instead of believing in any social solutions. Any high-powered apparatus such as cooker or electric heater are not allowed in the dormitory, students aboard shall abide the rules and regulations of dormitory and be back in the dormitory on time; can use fire extinguishers correctly and evacuate from dangerous area following the “Emergency exit” signs on the wall in case of fire. Pingyuan campus is adjacent to a provincial highway, in order to protect students’ security, the campus is under closed management, any student is not allowed to leave campus from Monday to Friday; well intercity bus to Xinxiang and Zhengzhou are recommended to be taken at the weekend, do not take the transport tools without lenience for personal safety consideration; do not trust any stranger or take irregular taxi.

How to Adapt to the new life in China Quickly? If you study abroad, you may suddenly enter a strange environment with differences in many factors such as language, culture and environment. So all these differences may make you feel helpless, and you may feel lonely in a distant place for such a long time. Generally speaking, it is a very long process for overseas students to study abroad. How do we adapt to the life of studying abroad quickly so as to get rid of the discomfort? It is required to know about the living habits well before studying abroad. According to the authority leader from the institution of studying abroad, the minimum period for adapting to the life abroad is generally half a year or even two years. It becomes a key point in the life of studying abroad that how to get through the “period for adaptation” in a smooth and stable manner. The in adaptation in the first half of the year after studying abroad results from the differences in culture and lifestyles of the two countries. That’s why we need to know about the detailed information of the foreign countries as much as possible before going abroad, such as the culture and history, how to borrow books in the library and how to take a bus. The more you get to know, the better prepared you will be. The more you understand, the smoother your life in the future will be. If you study abroad in a foreign country and want to adapt to the local life as quickly as possible, you can know about the aspects as follows: First of all, you can watch the movies, TV series and other video works reflecting the culture of the country, which is a faster way for the great majority of young people to quickly know about the local culture. For example, if you want to study in Chinese, it is recommended that you should watch the excellent video works about China in the recent two years. Without doubt, watching the variety shows is another faster way to understand the local culture quickly, which will strengthen the language practice as well. Secondly, it is necessary to read the books, newspapers and periodicals reflecting the national culture. The first category is a book for training of spoken English, the second category is a book in both English and Chinese and the third one is a book to introduce the culture of China. Surely, you can also know about the Chinese culture on various media and social platforms, including Baidu, Zhihu, Google and Facebook, etc. It is necessary to have the ability to live independently in an unfamiliar place. First of all, it is necessary to have certain communication skills. This doesn’t mean that you are required to speak Chinese fluently. As long as you are cheerful and dare to speak out, you can communicate with others through gestures without any barriers even though you can only say a few simple sentences, such as hello and goodbye. Secondly, it is necessary to cultivate the ability to solve the problems. Leaving home and studying abroad means you cannot depend on your parents any longer, for example, you need to learn to wash your clothes by yourself, buy food in the dining hall, study and shop independently and try to solve all the problems you are faced with. Of course, this does not mean that you have to shoulder all the problems by yourself when you are faced with a problem that fails to be solved. Solving the problems independently includes asking others for help to solve the problem as well. Thirdly, you should have a sense of responsibility and be a responsible person in order to be independent. It is required for you to understand the responsibilities you will bear for others, including yourself, family members, friends, teachers and classmates, etc. No matter what you do, you should shoulder the responsibilities for the things you do, which is necessary for a man with truly independent spirit. In addition, it is necessary to welcome the new life with an open, inclusive, positive and optimistic heart. As we all know, studying abroad may not be like “Opening up a brand new life with expectations every day.” as a lot of overseas students imagine. Difficulties may come out at any time. Therefore, the overseas students must stick to the positive energy in their hearts, adjust their mentality in a timely manner and adapt to the life continuously. Just as the old saying says, “There is no place like home”, this saying tells the true feelings of most overseas students. However, the only way to cultivate and improve the independence and adaptability is to face it actively. Meanwhile, the loneliness that overseas students often feel is caused by the differences in language barriers and living habits. Thus, it is very necessary to cultivate a hobby in the country first. This hobby will attract your attention apart from the study after you are going abroad, which will weaken the thoughts and loneliness. At the very beginning when you reach an unfamiliar place, you may face many different situations each day. Just as the saying goes, “When you are in Rome, do as the Romans do”, it is necessary for you to follow the customs, respect and tolerate the differences in different culture. An open heart is necessary for you to look at the new things. In addition, we also need to go out to enjoy and find out the beauty of these differences.