Tsinghua University's undergraduate five years, like many classmates, I also work hard for a dream of going to the world. In 1998, I finally embarked on North America. The life of these two years is really a feeling of emotion: I sincerely thank Tsinghua's learning life, it is also a taste of the American life. I believe that many of the domestic mysterious brothers and sisters are still in a dream and embarrassment stage, as I am two years ago.
Here, I am poor and introduced, so that everyone can understand the same and differences between Tsinghua University to learn life. I chose the entry point is two famous schools in China and US universities: Tsinghua University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From a sonatic, there is no school in the United States like Tsinghua University, and most of the national income of the science and the top 10 in the top 10 in the country. Even the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exchange in the Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, California University Berkeley is not inferior. Like Stanford University is more attractive to use "Yang Zhiyuan" in Silicon Valley. From the extent of the aggregation of excellent students, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plus Stanford University, is not enough to fight with Tsinghua.
And I am in the US Second Division, and its engineering colleges ranks around more than a dozen. I misunderstood before going abroad, the US secondary school students will not be very good, so the course will not be too difficult, and the difficulties of Chinese students are still in the language. After arriving at the United States, I found three sentences wrong. TOEFL and GRE don't have a white test after all, can understand 80% of the class. Originally used a single discharge machine that was recorded by the teacher's lecture, only once, no record, and then never brought it. There is not much difficulties in reading the text. The American student is really different and does not work, and the full point of 100 points is less than 50 points. However, the courage here is really not easy. Generally speaking, selecting 3 lessons is the standard (many people only choose two classes); people who can go 4 classes are different; 5 classes Why don't you think.
In the first semester, I got a undergraduate course called "computer system design", and it is really difficult. 10 homework was paid in 15 weeks, made 6 curriculum design (some of the design returns a number of parties, separated by design reports, so there is also a design report for 10 times). The most horrible is: Once, 6 jobs or design reports are paid in 10 days, and the other courses are in the middle test. I have been complained, the professor said: "I am sorry, but this class is very important, please keep working." Students start designing from the general logical timing circuit, the core is self-designing "the sparrow is small, the five organs "ALU, single instruction cycle CPU, multi-instruction CPU, until the end of the end 32-bit MIPS CPU and Cache. Only this class, all knowledge related to computer CPU can fully integrate, hardware design levels have also been greatly improved, although we are tired.
In Tsinghua's undergraduate course, I didn't find such a course in which such a kind of course practicing. The TEC-II test of the computer system is already exclusive nationwide, but the arrangement of this test did not touch the core (the TEC-II is a computer when the micro-instructions), the lack of handicapped design links make students understand the CPU principle. At the beginning I made a micro-instruction experiment, although Mourns opened, it is far less than enough.
The undergraduate students in Stanford also have similar computer system design courses, but students are required to be implemented in vHDL language (today IC design standard language), I have been "operating system" at Tsinghua, I have to do 4 on the basis of Linux One group of Project, 6 people, can be paid together at the end. I didn't have to panic at the last two weeks before the last two weeks, and they said that there will be "cow" in the last two weeks. Everyone can "ride". And I am different in the US university. It is also a group of 4 Project, 3 people, and more than one project every 3 weeks. If it is too much, the plagiarism and plagiarism will immediately be subject to questions and punishments. The time limit for the homework is that a Sunday is 23:59, 59 seconds, online handling, and half-seconds are not delayed, and the time transmission stops working, no one can make it. So everyone only sits down and bravely facing difficulties. In fact, the three-week period is a bit unreasonable, because the second week will be finished with Project related programs. Therefore, the only way is to stay up all night - the third week, from 9:00 pm, there are no preaching in the public computer room, because everyone has to stay upset continuously; some people began to support in the morning And you can get someone to six or seven points. The teacher showed a white cloth when the teacher was on the first class, and I went to the book "I declare surrender" and dozens of people. This gift is hanging by the teacher in the wall of the teacher in the hand under Project. And I feel only in this class: I have begun to understand that in Tsinghua, the computer system "operating system" and "computer principles" reflects its application. I have traveled to the "image processing" class in Tsinghua. I have a simple OCR in the design of "Image Processing" in American University, as for the first difficult design, according to teaching teaching, have never been made in more than ten years. I can't help but ask the professor who graduated from MIT: Is this a homework we do? But the professor has long been said: The course is more difficult to open in the past few years, the students are very painful, this year will reduce difficult .. .... It can be said that in terms of pure theory (such as calculus, signal and system), Tsinghua University is not ashamed in the United States, but it is still insufficient in terms of specific design.
There is another VLSI design course like the United States in Tsinghua 's designs. The VLSI design course of American universities is very deep. Students can make a real ASIC chip, can take their own design to Silicon Valley or apply.
In addition, the professor of American universities has a high degree of seriousness of the teaching, but any professor is not allowed to copy. There is a professor very representative: "It is difficult to find plagiarism; but I will do my best." Another common feature is: They will generally not dull you want to sleep. Although they are not as humor, they are just as humor, but they are just right; professors are also very responsible. One of the last JECTs of a classmate is completed at 3 am. In the bang of the Internet, I found a new E-mail. It turned out that the professor worked to 3 am, and designed a new one. Project made him. The American faculty personnel are very none, because there is generally no "national investment", if you can't get the results of the company's funding, the situation will be quite difficult. Assistant Professor is a associate professor, you can be so easy as it is in China. In Princeton University, you can't get a lifelong position within 5 years.
The doctoral degree in American university is not easy. First qualification exam, doing nearly near the end. The form is to propose an emerging topic, the proposition plan, the novel, meaning and program feasibility of the five-person review team review questions. Through the qualification exam, you can start your paper on this issue. If someone issued a phased research results during the comment, you must modify the topic or even from the beginning. Be the course in the process of preparing the exam, who has time to be busy with other things? Most professors have given students to prepare for qualification exams. This kind of examination is relaxed, and the Ph.D. of Chemical Department of California Institute of Technology has such a: Several professor from a new published article (doctoral students can't read or study the direction of this area) Questions, let students put forward solutions within two or three days to test the acuteness of the frontier research. This kind of test sometimes has passed, and you can't pass the doctor's dream. Even so, the California University of Technology also clearly stipulates that 20% of doctoral students have no doctoral degree. Write here, I can't help but think of my responsibility, as a Tsinghua Student, I enjoys the glory of the "Tsinghua" two words. I sincerely hope that my alma mater is a world-class society that makes the challenger excited and makes the outstanding people better. This is the original intention I wrote this article.
