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每年 5 月，美國大學畢業典禮都會受到大家的廣泛關注，很多學校會邀請最能代表學校精神和價值觀的知名人士、校友和學生來做演講，參加畢業典禮的學生家長也都不是泛泛之輩。
前兩天，位於美國羅得島州的藤校布朗大學也迎來了2023年度畢業典禮。在畢業生代表演講環節，一張中國面孔的赫然出現，吸引了現場 2000 多名師生的目光。
他叫傅楷量，來自河南鄭州，是布朗大學 2023 屆優秀畢業生代表，同時也是布朗大學建校 259 年來，第一位登上畢業演講臺的中國本科留學生。
傅楷量的演講主題是 "Fault Tolerance"《學會容錯》。在他看來，越是頂尖學校的優等生，對於一帆風順的人生越是執著，他們難以、甚至是無法容忍挫折與失敗。
但與其因懼怕犯錯絆住前進的腳步，不如允許人生軌道的偶爾偏航。演講臺上的傅楷量閃閃發光，贏得陣陣掌聲。
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I can still clearly remember the moment I received Brown's offer letter. After refreshing my email for, what must have been, the 92nd time, I opened the unread message with trembling fingers.
To my relief and excitement, it was an offer of admission.
My mom, sitting right over there today, rushed to my room, her ears covered, because I had just screamed too loud.
Where did that scream come from? Deep in my heart, it was a release of my fear of failure.
For years, this fear gripped my mind and kept telling me that if I didn’t try hard and succeed in every exam and competition, I would "lose at the starting line " in this race of life. Even worse, it would cause emotional damage.
But the culture I experienced here at Brown was vastly different. Brown empowers us to embrace failures on our journeys of exploration. We can fail our CS 15 assignments knowing there are fallback plans. We could go to TA hours more frequently or change the grading option to S NC, hopefully before the deadline. We can mess up our introductory speeches in Professor Barbara Tannabaem's class and redo them at the end of the semester.
We can fail on external jobs or research applications knowing there are still plenty of excellent openings on campus right here. By reducing the cost of trials and errors, Brown alleviates our fear of failure. It encourages us to take risks in the pursuit of something rewarding. This is how we dare to take tough courses, to speak publicly, and to interview without fear.
In my Junior year, I applied for a position at Google. I passed the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth interview. I was feeling pretty good when HR called me, but no. I failed my last, sixth interview on system design. Heart break.
To learn how to build more reliable computer systems, due to the emotional damage, I decided to take CS3080 Distributed Systems To my surprise, Professor Benson named his first day of class "Failures". He introduced the most essential concept in distributed systems: Fault Tolerance. By definition, Fault Tolerance refers to a system's ability to continue operating without interruption even if one or more of its components fail.
Brown has made all of us more fault-tolerant. Even if one endeavor fails, we, as a system, can keep operating and improving. Because of that, we grew faster than ever in our years at Brown I remember trying 4 different research labs and getting increasingly frustrated before finding a project that perfectly combines my CS and history interests.
Which is to use machine learning to analyze historical Asian drawings. Each step of failure has led me toward a project I’m truly passionate about. At Brown, we are motivated no longer by the fear of failure but rather by the enthusiasm to try something new. Even when we know we might not succeed . Outside of Brown's bubble, it can be hard to accept failures. After all, a mistake can mean losing a bonus, a promotion, or even a job.
After today, It might feel that Brown is not with us anymore.
But it will be always, as a mindset.
A mindset that is open to failure and accepts it as part of the journey. A mindset that tolerates others' mistakes and gives them a 2nd chance. A lot of what we perceive as failures won't be on the transcript of our or other’s life ten years from now.
Let's make the society more fault tolerant by not grading failures as Fs. or NCs And the good thing is, there is even no deadline to change the grading option of our life. After four years of studying at Brown, I finally have a, let’s say, more genuine, answer to the supplemental essay that each one of us including the parents, pondered over, why the open curriculum? Because it allows us, as Brown students, to be open to failure, thus opening more possibilities in life.
My fellow graduates, now we are going to depart from Brown and enter another stage of life.
Instead of treating life as a race, let’s carry on the mindset we started here and continue to explore, experiment, and take risks.
Let’s make the society more tolerant, Most importantly, remember that Brown will always be with us, as a community and as a mindset.
Congratulations, class of 2023, we made it!
傅楷量來自國內高考大省——河南，從小在中國體制內的教育下成長，門門功課優秀，成績一直保持在年級前五。
初中時，他曾嘗試申請美高，但當時以失敗告終。甚至在第一次準備托福考試的時候，在校內英語成績一向排在前三的他，卻在託福第一次考試中拿到了令他難以置信的低分—— 47 分。
留學首戰，沒能告捷。隨即而來的申請季，也進行的不太順利，傅楷量申請的 12 所高中，其中 11 所向他發出了拒信，只有 1 所手下留情，將他放進了 Waitlist。
但是這些挫折並沒有讓傅楷量氣餒，在申請季暫時宣告 " 失敗 " 後，他又火速加入到備戰中考的隊伍之中，順利考上了鄭州外國語中學的國際部，重新開始向留學發起進攻。
三年的高中時光，傅楷量持續積蓄力量，為出國讀書做準備。2018 年底，他決定把僅有一次的 ED 機會用於衝刺藤校，申請美國的布朗大學。
最終他以託福 110+，SAT1500+，10 門 AP 滿分的彪悍成績上岸布朗，給自己的辛苦付出一個滿意的回報。
When it came time to choose a college or university, Kailiang Fu knew he wanted an educational experience that prioritized intellectual independence, creative thinking and exploration. When Fu learned about Brown’s Open Curriculum, he quickly realized he’d found his home. Reflecting on that decision four years later, Fu is confident he made the right decision, and he will share that message on Commencement day.
“I want my fellow graduates to keep the mindset we’ve gained here at Brown of not being controlled by the fear of failure,” Fu said. “I want us to keep exploring and risk-taking.”
Originally from Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan Province, Fu said he plans to channel his experiences at Brown into an address that epitomizes a computer science term called “fault tolerance,” which refers to a system’s ability to bounce back, despite setbacks or failure.
“I think that's our most important lesson,” Fu said of the resiliency he’s learned. “Brown has made us all more ‘fault tolerant.’ We’ve been encouraged to chart our own journeys and explore different, new topics. And even if we’ve messed up and failed, we’ve gained experience for the next time we try something that pushes us to our limits.”
The lessons in Fu’s speech are grounded in his time at Brown. During his four years, Fu said he looked continually for opportunities to expand his skills in computer science and satisfy his passion for history, whether it was through courses, student organizations or internships.
Since January 2023, Fu has worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant in Brown computer science courses such as Distributed Computer Systems. He’s also served as a mentor for IgniteCS, a student organization that travels to local K-12 schools to help students learn coding and other computer science skills. And as a team member of Dream!n, a user-generated gaming startup that won second place in last year’s Brown Venture Prize, Fu has learned the ins and outs of running a small technology company.
Fu remembers two classroom experiences with special fondness. One was Archaeology of College Hill, which had him digging into the foundations of a Gilded Age family’s home on Hope Street in Providence and finding painted mosaic tiles, tiny glass bottles and rusty nails. The course gave him an increased appreciation for history’s many complexities and individual stories.
“We talk about primary sources all the time in history courses, but we don’t always get a full picture of the process it takes to get these firsthand,” Fu said. “In this course, we did, and we then got to analyze them. To borrow a term from computer science, we got the full stack experience of history.”
The other course was Persuasive Communication, taught by Distinguished Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Barbara Tannenbaum. As an international student whose second language is English, Fu said the course — even when he struggled with it — taught him to think more deeply about how he communicates in English, helping him improve on difficult but easily overlooked skills such as pronunciation. He said the experience paid dividends when it came to interviews for internships and jobs.
Brown has made us all more ‘fault tolerant.’ We’ve been encouraged to chart our own journeys and explore different, new topics. And even if we’ve messed up and failed, we’ve gained experience for the next time we try something that pushes us to our limits.
Tannenbaum’s course also helped solidify Fu’s belief that Brown faculty members care not only about his academic future, but also about his personal goals.
“No matter what you do or try out education-wise, Brown’s got your back,” he said.
Fu said one of the most critical skills he learned in the applied math-computer science concentration was how to collaborate with others in group projects. Those projects taught him how to take big problems and break them down into manageable pieces, whether the focus was on coding, interface design, machine learning or the security of computer systems. Fu used all of those skills and more in summer internships at Amazon and Meta his sophomore and junior years, respectively. After graduation, he will apply what he learned when he starts a job at Uber.
“This process of breaking down big problems into small, doable components was really fruitful for me,” Fu said. “I would love to carry this way of thinking into my education, career and beyond.”
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