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Personal self-introduction is a very critical step in the actual interview. Because of the well-known "antecedent effect", your self-introduction in these 2-3 minutes before meeting will largely determine your success in the interview. The image in the examiner's mind. This introduction will be a summary of all your work achievements and behavior, and will also be the tone of your subsequent interviews. The examiner will ask questions based on your materials and introduction.

Individual interviews basically start with an opening greeting. The opening greeting is very important and may determine the tone of the entire interview. The opening greeting is the first impression you make on the interviewer. Everything from your speech and behavior to your dress will directly affect your chances of being admitted. You should come in with a smile, but not flattery. Don't talk too much, just call "Hello Teacher" is enough. The voice should be loud enough, confident enough, and the speaking speed should be natural. In short, be polite and generous, and don't be overly attentive, formal, or overly condescending.

Self-introduction is a good opportunity for performance. You should grasp the following key points: First, you must highlight your personal strengths and specialties and have considerable credibility. It is best to verify it by what projects you have done; secondly, you must show your personality and make your personal image distinct. You can appropriately quote other people's remarks, such as comments from teachers, friends, etc. to support your description; thirdly, Do not exaggerate, insist on speaking with facts, and use less function words, interjections, etc.;. Finally, it must be logical, and the introduction should be clear-cut and focused, so that your advantages can be revealed gradually and naturally. Don't rush to list your advantages right from the beginning.

Self-introduction sample

××, was born at 11:15 am on January 24, 1983 in the Health Center of Xiaobotou Town, Wudi County, Shandong Province. I have been close to the land since I was a child, and there is no doubt that I have a long-standing relationship with nature. My reading career started with my mother's "Chinese Medicine" and my father's "Stored Grain Pests", and my relationship with biology also began here.

After receiving the orthodox Chinese basic education for twelve years, there was nothing outstanding during the twelve years. The junior high school participated in the Middle School Biology Olympiad twice and won the provincial first prize and the special prize respectively. Three years of high school, to be honest, I only worked hard for half a year, and lost 8 kilograms in exchange for a college entrance examination report card with a total score of 623. With a passion for biology, I applied for the School of Life Sciences of Shandong University against all odds and was admitted.

When I entered university, I found that the ideal ivory tower of freedom and openness was still far away, but for me it was already "like a loach in the mud". Although the course load has more than doubled compared to middle school, I prefer this kind of busyness. The teaching of basic courses should not be considered ideal. I think this is a common problem in most universities in China. However, the attraction of the course itself far outweighs my dissatisfaction with the teaching method. Although I didn't get all the excellent scores, I still passed it smoothly. Easily passing CET-4 and CET-6 in English is like a pony crossing a river. It is not an extremely scary thing.

After successfully completing my study tasks, extracurricular reading became my biggest hobby. In the past three years, I saved other people’s coffee money and bought all the books. In Beijing in 2001 and in Shanghai in 2002, each time I exchanged the money in my wallet for more substantial books in my schoolbag. So far, the three-story bookshelf at the bedside is filled with all kinds of biology reading materials, and is nicknamed the Biology Branch of Shandong University Library by my classmates. In order to keep abreast of the trends in the scientific and technological world, especially the biological world, various magazines have become my biggest interests. "SCIENCE" and "NATURE" are hard to find, and the Chinese version of "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN" has been available for three years.

In school, the biggest paradise is the laboratory, even though basic experiments have become the most criticized weakness among science and engineering students. Although I cannot fully control the experiment, I strive for change. It is really a pleasure to see my ideas confirmed or denied. Being close to the land as a child and living in the hospital for more than ten years gave me a lot of experience in the experimental operation itself. Especially in animal experiments, I was often asked by my classmates to look for "places to set needles" on rabbit ears that were full of holes. In the past three years, I have taken more than a dozen experimental courses, all of which are excellent, and it often becomes a reason for my experimental partners to be lazy. This is also a beautiful memory of my college days.

In your spare time, you can carry your tent and sleeping bag and go deep into the mountains and rivers of southern Jinan. Although it is not as beautiful as Yunnan, you can still find a rare tranquility that has been lost in the city for a long time. Bring a geological hammer and a magnifying glass, Zhangxia and Shanwang are both good places to visit. Say hello to the creatures of the Ordovician, Cambrian, and Quaternary ages. Although it has not reached the molecular level, it can still be regarded as a small study of evolution.

Speaking of evolution, in the spring of 2003, when suspicions about SARS loomed over Beijing, several friends and I were invited to the CCTV Science and Education Channel to participate in a discussion on the extinction of dinosaurs with friends from Nanjing University and Tianjin University. discussion. Our idea of ​​restoring the dinosaur reproductive ecology model has been unanimously affirmed by famous paleontologists Dong Zhiming and Zhen Shuonan. Five days after returning to Jinan from Beijing, SARS quarantine began. Also because of SARS, CCTV's program recording came to a standstill. Our program was "fortunate" to be rebroadcast four times. We hope that our views can be recognized by more people.

However, rather than discussing the extinction of the dinosaurs, I prefer to discuss the birth of life.

Here, evolution is not only a biological topic, but also a philosophical proposition. My understanding of evolutionary biology and evolutionary genomics will be expanded on in the following short article, so I won’t go into details here.

Finally, three years of college life are coming to an end, and the future graduate life is about to begin. For me, the Chinese Academy of Sciences system has always been my only choice. What I need is a pure research atmosphere. Kunming Institute of Zoology is just such a place. Whether it is the direction of animal development that I am currently focusing on, or the direction of evolutionary biology, which is my interest, Kunming has the top professors and experimental conditions in the country. If you are lucky enough to be a member of the Kunming Institute and work under such excellent research conditions, what else can you say?

Attached are some extracurricular reading books:

Stephen J.Could Full House

Peter Bowler Evolution: The History of An Idea

T.A Brown Genomics 2nd ed

Eldon D.Enger Concepts in Biology 10th ed

Irwin B.Levitan The Neuron Cell and Molecular Biology 2nd ed

Rob DeSalle and Bernd Schierwater Molecular Approaches to Ecology and Evolution

Peter Paolella Introduction to Molecular Biology

K K. Jain Textbook of Gene Therapy

Minoru Kanehisa Post-genome Informatics

T K.Attwood and D J.Parry-Smith Concepts in Bioinformatics

Sun Daye et al. "Cell Signal Transduction"

Modern Biology Essentials Quick View Series : "Genetics", "Immunology", "Microbiology", "Molecular Biology", "Neurobiology", "Animal Biology"

Jin Boquan "Cellular and Molecular Immunology"

Qian Kaixian Shao Jianzhong "Principles of Cellular Biochemistry"

Ma Liren Jiang Zhonghua "Biochip"

Song Chungpeng "Plant Aging Biology"

Shen Chengguo "Plant Aging Physiology" and Molecular Biology"

Xie Tianen and Hu Zhihong "General Virology"