作者简介：Matt Johnson，智梦上海外籍顾问，普林斯顿大学心理学博士，纳微格特（Navigant）咨询公司生命科学部助理。成功辅导学员录取：普林斯顿大学、卡尔顿学院、圣路易斯华盛顿大学、圣母大学、加州大学伯克利分校等。

翻译：Ben

Most Favorite.

Thebest class I took as an undergrad was a graduate seminar on autism. I took this in the fall of my senior year,and at this point, I was well into my psychology degree and had been working inan autism research lab for over a year. The class was not required and it didn’t offer grades – I took it merelyto enjoy and to learn. Another reason Itook it was because it was taught by one of my intellectual heroes at the time:esteemed autism researcher Eric Courschene.

最喜欢的课程

我作为本科生选的最好的课程是一个关于自闭症的研究生讨论会。我在大四秋季选的课，而在那时，我已经接近于拿到心理学学位并且在一个自闭症研究实验室工作超过一年。课程并不强制且不提供学分——我仅仅只是为了享受和学习而选的课。另一个原因是因为教课的是我心目中的知识英雄：受人尊敬的研究员Eric Courschene。

Theclass only had about 30 students in it, mostly graduate students. Each week, either a guest lecturer came in ora student from the class gave a small mini-lecture on a different autismrelated topic. These were fascinating.One week we discussed epidemiology(and the debate over whether autism incidence are actually augmenting), inanother week we discussed autistic savant skills.

只有大概30位左右的学生上课，大部分都是研究生。每周，一位座客讲师来主讲亦或是一位课上的学生做一个关于不同自闭症话题的小型迷你演讲。这一切对我来说都有极大的吸引力。一次周末我们讨论流行病学（和一个关于自闭症现象是否增加的辩论），另一个周末我们讨论过成为自闭症专家所需的技能。

Myassignment was to discuss a theory of autism called enhanced perceptualfunction, which basically argues that the way in which autistic individualsperceive the world is superior to the typically developing population. I was so nervous about presenting, that Ipracticed my 20 minute presentation over 30 times. In the end, it went extremely well – thepresentation went off without a hitch and I was able to successfully answer thequestions from the class. The best partwas right after the lecture. Dr.Courschene came up to me and talked to me about the topic himself and wechatted for a few minutes. Sayinggoodbye to me, he said, “I can tell you really understand this material,congratulations”. It was one of myfavorite academic moments from college.

我的任务是讨论一个被称作知觉机能增强的自闭症理论：基本上陈述了自闭症患者对于外界的观察能力要强于所谓的正常人。我对于这个演示太过紧张以至于原本20分钟的时间被我拖至30分钟。而最后，整个过程异常顺利——演示没有一点问题并且我成功地回答了课堂提问。最值得回忆的部分还是在演讲之后，Courschene教授找到我并与我讨论了几分钟关于演讲的过程。道别的时候他和我说：“我可以看出你非常理解这些内容，恭喜你。”而这也是我最喜欢的大学学术时刻。

Least Favorite.

The worst class I had as an undergraduate was abnormalpsychology, which I took at UC Santa Cruz during a summer session. The woman teaching the class was a professionaltherapist, but did not have much teaching experience. The material was interesting, but theteaching style made it difficult to get excited about it. On rare occasion, she’d tell us some of herpersonal anecdotes from her therapy experience. Generally speaking though, the lectures consisted of her opening thetextbook and reading from it for forty-five minutes - extremely boring anduninspiring.

最不喜欢的课程

我作为本科生上的最差的课是在加州大学圣克鲁兹分校夏校期间的病理心理学。主讲师是一位职业女治疗师但并没有太多教学经验。内容很有趣可是上课方式使得学生很难对其产生兴趣。只有偶然的几次她会告诉我们几个她工作经验中的故事。但总体来说，包括她打开笔记本并且照本宣科的这四十五分钟是极度无聊和无趣的。

文中生词：

autism：(psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self;marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability totreat others as people 自闭症

epidemiology：the branch of medical science dealing with thetransmission and control of disease 流行病学

savant：someone who has been admitted to membership in ascholarly field 学者，专家

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