Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

这一刻全力以赴，下一刻成就最佳。

—Oprah Winfrey

今日焦点

今天，施强学子屠同学受邀参加绍兴蕺山外国语学校的高二国际班结业典礼。

作为该校的优秀毕业生，屠同学向在座的老师和同学们进行经验分享，关于自己是如何突破自我，成功获得包括加州大学欧文分校（排名42）录取、戴维斯分校（排名46）经济学、密西根州立全美第一的供应链管理专业、德莱赛尔的物流专业等院校专业录取。

【附上屠同学演讲稿】（有删减）

My name is Tu Shixuan（may be you’ve known）and my English name is Joseph. I used to study in this school in grade1 and grade 2. A year ago, after I finished the exams, I got 89 in TOEFL. It was a relatively good score in my class, the third one. To be honest, I am not a very diligent person in learning English. 

On weekends, I spent a long time on playing League of Legends and I played Glory of the King on my cellphone. Even though many of my classmates went to Hangzhou to have more extra classes, I had never been nervous about their progresses since I thought it was not difficult to obtain a high score in TOEFL. But very soon I realized that I was wrong when I took the TOEFL exam. I got 86 only. It was the first time that I was getting worse. I encouraged myself that 'Don’t worry,I will reach 95 next time.' So I was still addicted to playing games and lying to myself. As you can imagine, I had no promotion in several months on account of lack of self discipline which is quite important. Teachers and my parents were very upset and anxious about my grades and applications to universities.

At that time, I became more and more anxious about my TOEFL score. I knew my foundation was poor because I spent much less time on memorizing vocabulary, writing passages and practicing speaking than others. What’s more, my classmates who had lower grades than me also approached 90.

I did not want to fall behind and I wanted to be responsible to my future. Thus I gave up playing phone games and any other enthusiasms and studied 7 more hours every day from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. During that  period, the only 10 minutes break was having my dinner. I wrote the same title over and over again, revised them with the opinions of my writing teacher. I spent 20 minutes on listening to TPOs before sleep, and got up at 7 a.m. to recite phrases and words. Finally,owing to my own hard work, I got 103 in TOEFL which is relatively good and received the offer from University of California, Irvine, a Top 50 university.

In conclusion, the most important contribution I think to get a high score is hard working and self-discipline.

这就是我们的施强学子

他们在成长，在为自己的未来而努力

而我们要做的，就是为他们做坚实的后盾