China News Service, April 25. According to the US "World Daily" report, Cheng Jiahan, a Chinese student from Southern California who has suffered from visual neurological disorder since childhood, recently received an admission notice from the University of California, Berkeley.
The admissions officer said that Cheng Jiahan was admitted among more than 120,000 applicants because he valued his excellent performance in academic and community service and personal qualities in pursuit of his ideals.
When Cheng Jiahan talked about admission, he attributed it to the spirit of "fighting to the death".
Cheng Jiahan, 18, will go to Berkeley University in August to study psychology, which ranks among the top universities in the United States.
He hopes to continue his master's and doctoral studies after completing his university studies.
And can join the army, to do psychological counseling for the army sergeant.
In order to enter the long-awaited major of psychology, he also took the courses of Stanford University's Psychology University online in the summer of 2021 and obtained all A grades.
Cheng Jiahan attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School in East Valley City, Riverside County, and served as the chairman of the school's Chinese club.
In high school, he founded the platform of the China American Volunteer Association in 2019. He served as the chairman, established nine interest clubs, attracted students to join, organized student volunteers to send love envelopes to students taking online classes at home, soothed students' anxiety, and activated students' epidemic situation. life in.
At the same time, it also provides one-on-one psychological counseling and counseling online.
He is relying on the psychological knowledge he has learned to provide psychological counseling to his classmates. Especially after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, some students are in adolescence, and they are not suitable for online teaching due to the epidemic. They feel depressed, and some even have violent conflicts with their families.
In addition, the association also donated anti-epidemic supplies.
At present, the association has nearly 500 student members, mainly students in grades 5 to 12, and the vast majority are Chinese students.
Cheng Jiahan was born with optic nerve disorder. He immigrated to the United States from China with his parents at the age of nine and lived in Donggu City.
Due to optic nerve disorder and other problems, his eyes have undergone multiple operations, and his vision is only 0.1, which is highly myopic.
In other words, for example, a normal person can see a target at a distance of 50 meters, but he needs to approach five meters to see it clearly.
Because Cheng Jiahan belongs to the optic nerve dysfunction disease, even if he wears vision correction glasses, he cannot return to normal vision.
In order to allow him to obtain better learning conditions, the local school district specially arranged a personal education tutoring system, such as providing textbooks with larger fonts and auxiliary tools that can read the blackboard characters more clearly.
Although he encountered many difficulties in his studies, he has an optimistic character and strong perseverance, and his academic performance has always been among the best.
However, because of his congenital visual impairment, he needed to be almost attached to the case to be able to read the fonts and writing on the books clearly. In addition, he worked as a volunteer, which caused back pain. He needed to go to the doctor for rehabilitation treatment every week with the company of his mother. Sleep is only three to four hours a day.
He has also participated in many academic competitions at all levels and won many awards. For example, he won the first place in the 2019 Colonna-Norco School District Science Fair, the first place in the Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair, and the 2019 Southern California China Science Fair. The trade union won the second place, and also won the Outstanding Award in the Science and Technology Competition held by the University of Redland, and has won more than ten academic awards so far.
Outstanding academic performance.
Due to his poor eyesight, Cheng Jiahan is very concerned about people who suffer from visual impairments like him. In the second half of 2018, he and his classmates used their spare time to compile a software to assist the visually impaired, using the display of mobile phones to display distant objects In front of the eyes, the visually impaired can wear this device, exactly like a normal person.
He called the invention Seeing Reality, and it won first place at the Riverside County Science and Engineering Fair.
When he is about to enter the second year of high school, Cheng Jiahan won the champion of the same age group in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) video simulation competition.
Shortly before the start of the new semester, Cheng Jiahan served as the president of the school's American Future Business Leaders Association.
In the new semester, Cheng Jiahan also took several AP courses, including psychology, Chinese, history and calculus.
Cheng Jiahan is also enthusiastic about community public welfare. He can often be seen in the activities organized by the East Valley Chinese Association. He serves as the leader of the Chinese Association Volunteer Team and participates in organizing volunteers to canvass and serve Chinese candidates for city councillors. Activities, he also recorded the activities with a camera as data.
He is also a member of the local Boy Scouts and has received numerous awards for his outstanding performance.
Talking about entering Berkeley UC for further study, Cheng Jiahan admitted that he originally wanted to study psychology at Stanford University, but he was not able to do so.
But being lucky enough to get into UC Berkeley requires you to go the extra mile.
Cheng Jiahan's mother felt gratified that her son was able to study in a prestigious school like ordinary people and realize his ideals, saying that the years of company and hard work had not been in vain.
But she also has one thing she regrets.
She said that her son Cheng Jiahan's visual impairment may be related to her entering the chemical plant operation once during her pregnancy, which may have been caused by inhaling toxic gases from the chemical plant.
This is the pain in her heart forever.
(Qi Chrome)