As a traditional activity in CSW, there is a great welcome to alumni every year. Some excellent students who have already graduated from CSW will always be invited to attend the alumni meeting. The purpose of the alumni meeting is to let graduate students share how they applied to universities and their experiences studying abroad. There is no doubt that every student at CSW will be excited about this interesting activity.
I first heard and attended an alumni meeting when I was in grade 10. At that time, the alumni meeting was organized to be held with the clubs’ presentation together. It, therefore, was not only to meet with graduate students but also show off the various clubs. This year, on December 25th, the alumni meeting was held alongside the clubs’ presentation again; however, compared to the last one I participated in, the alumni meeting was held in the big lecture hall. The reason why changing to a bigger place is that CSW especially invited students’ parents to participate this year, which made for a more enthusiastic atmosphere. Besides, CSW prepared a lot of fancy snacks at the gate nearby so that everyone could enjoy the relaxed environment. Everything did look very attractive.
Some performances were showed before the meeting started. As a performer of the singing show, I felt a lot of nerves. In order to give them a familiarity feeling, we did a lot of effort to warm the hall up and everyone had a smile on their face during the whole process. Not only that, the holiday atmosphere did always did fill the hall.
When the graduate students were answering the questions on the stage, every student listened to them carefully, and every student was afraid to miss any details. Besides answering what we asked, graduated students told us some nice tips. At last, a student’s parents asked a popular question about accompanying kids to study abroad, which struck a chord with many parents.
The alumni meeting lasted all afternoon, and everyone achieved a lot. In the future, I think students in CSW will be able to take good use of what they learned at the alumni meeting and make their study life easier.
By Kiki Xu