Event Review | 这是一个让我变得更好的“特立之地”

7月11日，广东以色列理工学院隆重举行2021年本科生毕业典礼。广东以色列理工学院生物技术与食品工程专业2017级学生蔡瀚锋作为毕业生代表在仪式上发言。他表示，学校教会了他独立思考的能力和敢于质疑的精神，为他提供了一个全球性的视野。他希望自己和同学们毕业后都能做好迎接新挑战的准备，在未来的旅程中乘风破浪，实现自己的梦想。

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尊敬的各位来宾、亲爱的老师们、同学们、家长朋友们，

下午好！

我叫蔡瀚锋，是一名来自广东以色列理工学院生物技术与食品工程专业的学生，很荣幸能够被挑选为毕业生代表在毕业典礼上发表演讲。

首先，我要祝贺在座的所有学生今天终于毕业了！我们是广以的第一届学生。俗话说：万事开头难。我感到很自豪，因为我们克服了所有的挑战和困难，并且能够在四年之后完成了本科的学习。诚然，仅靠我们一个人无法做到，一路走来，我们得到了家人的大力支持和老师们的教诲指导。

我多次被问到同样的一个问题：你为什么选择广以？第一年的时候，我会说因为广以离我家很近，每个周末我都可以和家人一起享用家里的晚餐。但现在我可以自信地回答：我选择广以，因为这是一个让我变得更好的“特立之地”。

这是一个让我们掌握独立思考和批判性思考能力的地方。我们经常被鼓励勇敢提问，而不是像在高中时那样安静地上课。我们的教授们总是耐心且热情地解答我们的疑惑。在没有经过彻底地研究之前，我们的意见和想法从未被妄下定论。因此，我们拥有了成为未来科学家和工程师的正确心态。

这也是一个我从我们的教授那里得到灵感和动力的地方。我记得那是在一个炎热的夏日深夜，我正穿过教学楼的走廊前往我的宿舍。突然，我看到Yigal Achmon教授站在空荡荡的教室前，满头大汗地练习他的讲课，对此我深受感动和启发。他正如此努力地为我们备课，那一刻我意识到我应该停止为我的懒惰找借口。从那时起，我开始养成良好的习惯，始终为每一次课堂、演讲甚至于整个本科学习做好充分准备。

作为一所中外合作大学，广以为我们提供了一个具有浓厚国际氛围的美好校园。我们有来自世界各地的教授，包括以色列、美国、加拿大等等。我很感激能遇到如此优秀的人，学习他们的研究，学习他们的文化，甚至与他们成为朋友。这为我提供了一个全球性的视野，使得我能够在汕头就与世界接轨。

正如习近平总书记所说，“科技是国家强盛之基，创新是民族进步之魂”。来到这里之前，创新对我来说是一个非常模糊和抽象的概念。但在参加了教授的讲座并有了亲身体验之后，我现在对创新有了更深的了解。例如，在食品创新课程中，我和我的团队使用日常生活中的食材创造了新的功能性食品，我们都感到十分兴奋，能够在这里练习如何创新并真正创造出独一无二的食物。

虽然我还在校园里，但我已经开始想念这四年来陪伴我们成长的校园。我要感谢全体教职员工和行政人员，他们一直为保证舒适的校园学习和生活环境而努力工作。还有，我要感谢我的朋友们，我们一起生活、一起工作、一起玩耍，我们在这里创造了太多美好的回忆。最后并且重要的是，我们应该感谢我们的父母，他们冒着风险将我们送到了这样一所全新的大学。正由于这个“风险”，我们才能成为今天的自己。

每个结束都是一个新的开始。我相信我们所有毕业生都做好了迎接生活中新的挑战的准备。而我也很高兴能继续在以色列理工学院继续我的学习之旅。

最后，再次祝贺所有人，并祝大家前程似锦，未来好运。

谢谢大家！

GTIIT Commencement for Bachelor Degree Graduates 2021 was held successfully at the Auditorium of GTIIT North Campus on July 11.Cai Hanfeng, a graduate from Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program, delivered a speech as the representative of the Class of 2021. He said GTIIT is a place where he learnedto think independently and critically, and offers him a global perspective. He hoped that all the students could have a bright future and realize their dreams.

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Distinguishedguests, dear faculty, staff, fellow students,parents andfriends,

Good afternoon.

My name is Cai Hanfeng. I am a student fromtheBiotechnology and Food Engineering Program in GTIIT. It is my great honor to be selected as the student representative to give a speech in the commencement ceremony.

First of all, I would like to congratulate all of the students here for finally graduatingtoday! We are the first cohort of students in GTIIT. As a Chinese saying goes:万事开头难, which meansthatthe beginning is the most difficult part. I amsoproud that we managed to overcome all the challenges and difficulities, and we finished our undergraduate studies after four years. Wedidn’tdo it alone of course. All along the way we had the wonderful support of our families and the guidance from our teachers.

I have been asked many times the same question: why didyou choose GTIIT?Inmy first year, I would say because it is close to my home, and I can enjoy homemade disheswithmy family every weekend. But now Iwouldanswer it with confidence: I chose GTIIT becauseitis such aunique placethat made mebetter.

This is a place where we learn to think independently and critically. We were encouraged to ask questions instead of sitting through classes quietly as we did in high school. Our doubts were always answered with patienceand inspiration by our professors. Our opinionsandideas were never judged without athorough investigation.As such, we were gifted with the right mindset to be futurescientists and engineers.

This is also a place where Ifoundinspiration and motivation from our professors. I remember it was late in a hot summer evening. I was walking through the corridor oftheEducation Building heading back to my dorm. Suddenly, I saw Prof. Yigal Achmon, standing in front of an empty classroom, practicing his lecture passionately with sweat dripping from his forehead. I was deeply touched and inspired. He was working so hard to prepare his lecture for us, I realizedthat I should stop finding excusesfor my laziness. From then on, Istarted tobuild up good habitstoalwaysbewell-prepared for lectures, for presentations,and formy entireundergraduate studies.

As a Sino-foreign cooperative university, GTIIT provided us a wonderful campus with strong international atmosphere. We have professors from all over the world including Israel, US, Canada,and many more. I am so grateful to meet such excellent people, to learn from their research, from their cultures and even make friends with them. Thisoffered me a global perspective and enabled me to take a glimpse of the world from here in Shantou.

As President Xi Jinping said, “Technology is the foundation of the country's prosperity, while innovation is the soul of national progress”. Before I came here, innovation was such a vague and abstract concept for me. Now I have a better understanding about what it is, after attending lectures from professors and having hands-on experiences. For example, in the food innovation course,my group andI creatednew functional food usingingredients fromour dailylife.It’sso excitingto practice how to be innovative and really create something new and unique by myself.

Even though I am still here, I already miss the campus, which has grown up with us in the past four years. I would like to thank our facultyand admin staff, who work so hard to guarantee a comfortable campus for study and living. Also, I want to thank my friends, we live together, work together, and play together. We have created so many great memories here.Last but not least, we should thank our parents who took a risk and sent usto such a new university. Because of thatrisk, we becamewho we aretoday.

Every endis a new beginning. I believe all my fellow graduates are ready to face new challenges in their lives.And I am so excited to continue my journey in the Technion.Finally, congratulations once again and I wish all of us good luck with the future ahead.

Thankyou for your attention.

文：蔡瀚锋、GTIIT传媒与公共事务部

图：GTIIT传媒与公共事务部

Text:CaiHanfeng,GTIIT News & Public Affairs

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