Are you a high school student? Then consider spending your summer at Harvard, where you can explore a variety of collegelevel courses, and live and learn with students from different countries.
TWO CHOICES TO CHOOSE FROM：
PreCollege Program
A twoweek residential (住宿的) experience featuring noncredit courses
SESSION (期) Ⅰ：June 24—July 6
SESSION Ⅱ：July 8—20
SESSION Ⅲ：July 22—August 3
The program features：
●A choice of over 100 noncredit courses designed for precollege students.
●Oncampus (校内的) housing with fellow precollege students and residential staff.
●Structured days, with weekday class meetings and precollege activities.
The fee for the Harvard PreCollege Program session is $4,500.
The PreCollege Program cost includes：
●Courses
●Housing and all meals
●Offcampus activities—transportation and most entrance fees
Secondary School Program
College courses for credits in a sevenweek session, June 23—August 11
The program features：
●College courses (over 200 to choose from), which you attend with college students, other high school students, and professionals from around the world.
●Credits you can transfer to a college in the future.
●The choice to live on campus, commute (走读), or study online.
●The freedom to schedule your days.
For students living on campus, the average cost of attending the program is $11,900, which includes fees for two 4credit courses ($3,050 for each course) or one 8credit course ($6,100), room and meal fees, and a health insurance fee. For those attending as a commuting or online student, the cost ranges from $3,050 to $6,100 depending on the number of courses taken.
After I made it to the city center, I started to feel it might be easy for a foreigner to deal with the great size of Beijing. With growing confidence, I decided to take the subway to the hotel, not realizing that the network didn't go that far. Impressed with the cleanliness of the station, I bought a ticket and boarded the first subway that came along.
After a few minutes I asked in English a young man seated next to me where I should get off closest to the Friendship Hotel. Wearing a smart business suit and tie, he would surely speak English, wouldn't he? Unfortunately, he couldn't understand me but seemed very friendly. I showed him the room card with all the information of the Friendship Hotel in Chinese characters (汉字). He looked at it, and then his eyes moved quickly to the carriage (车厢) subway map. Next, he raised three fingers of his right hand.
In Australia, raising fingers at someone is not usually nice, but this man wasn't smiling. At the next station he showed me two fingers. Now in Australia, that's really rude, but I got the message. When we stopped at the third station, he didn't just point to the door, but got up, took me out of the train, and led me to the top of the stairs, and out onto the street. Then he stopped a taxi and told the driver where to take me.
All this came from a man who couldn't speak my language, and I couldn't speak his. I was now speechless, especially when he refused my offer of money. I felt a little embarrassed having even thought he would accept a tip.
This experience made it clear I had to learn some Chinese quickly or my adventures might start turning into misadventures.
