2 . We have a variety of student organizations focused on everything from politics and photography to dance and debate. Whatever your interests, you can explore them at Harvard. These are just four of the total 451 organizations.

Chinese Cultural Card Games Club

The Chinese Cultural Card (games) Club-known as CCCC-serves as a fun way for students to gain an appreciation of Chinese culture as well as improve their analytical thinking, memory, and concentration through Chinese card games. We play Tractor and Guan Dan at weekly meetings. All are welcome to come, including friends not related to Harvard!

E: jxie@college.harvard.edu

Active Minds Student Chapter at CAMHS

Active Minds Student Chapter at CAMHS are student leaders in promoting a supportive student community at Harvard. We work to encourage open conversation about matters of mental health and educate students to deal with resources on campus.

E: harvardactiveminds@gmail.com

Fall Clean-Up

Fall Clean-up is designed to provide new students with extra support and resources to make it easy to get used to college life by connecting first-year students with peer leaders, schoolmates, and helpful.

Harvard resources.

E: fcu@fas.harvard.edu

Accessible Education Office (AEO)

The Accessible Education Office (AEO) partners with FAS students with disabilities to recognize difficulties and carry out plans for access. Through cooperation with the campus community, we raise an environment of fairness and a sense of belonging.

E: aeo@fas.harvard.edu

4 . A man named Randy liked to look for big trees and old trees. He made maps to show where these trees were. He did not want to cut them down. He wanted people to take care of them.

Randy was told that there was a very tall tree on Vancouver Island. The tree was said to be 314 feet tall. That would make it the tallest tree in Canada. Randy started to find the tree.

But someone else found it first. It was found by a logger (伐木工). Loggers wanted to cut down Canada’s tallest tree and all the trees around it.

Randy made a path in the forest so people could see the tallest tree. The tree was so big and beautiful that it would bring them enjoyment. More and more people wanted to save that forest. Thanks to these people, that forest is now a park. Canada’s tallest tree is still there.

5 . Are you still wondering about which club to choose? The following information about the clubs in our school may help you make a good choice.

Writing Club Advisor (顾问): Ms. Loll (cloll@ aacps. org) Club Meeting Time: Tuesday 10:00—10:30 Wednesday 9:30—10:00 Description: Writing Club is open to any student at SHS who would like help in improving writing and grammar skills.	Food Club Advisor: Ms King (laking@ aacps. org) Club Meeting Time: Tuesday 10:00—10:30 Thursday 10:00—10:30 Description: Love talking about food, cooking, and more? Food Club is your place. Join us to discuss all things about food and cooking.
Art Club Advisor: Ms. Hendryx (jhendryx@ aacps. org) Club Meeting Time: Tuesday 10:00—10:30 Friday 10:00—10:30 Description: Art Club is a time to work on your own artwork. We watch different videos which may include art skills and famous artists.	Book Club Advisor: Ms. Choulis (mchoulis@ aacps. org) Club Meeting Time: Monday 10:00—10:30 Thursday 9:30—10:00 Description: This is a club for students who love reading. Students will read books and then meet twice each week to have discussions about the book.

6 . Peter is a high school student and he lives in Suzhou. His family often take a trip to cities, such as Nanjing and Hangzhou. But Peter always hoped to visit Shanghai. This year, his dream finally came true.

On June 22nd, Peter’s family took the train to get to Shanghai. Their first destination was Zhujiajiao Ancient Town. After arriving there, they tasted many delicious foods first. Then they watched Kunqu Opera performances and hanfu shows.

On the second day, Peter’s family went to Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park. They not only watched many animals, but also joined in some traditional activities about the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, they made zongzi and joined in a boat race. Peter also played an ancient game — touhu. This was the first time he had tried the game. It was so interesting. They also went to At Life Hub@ Anting Square.

On the last day, Peter’s family enjoyed the old Shanghai songs and guofeng music at the concerts. They also went to Jiabei Country Park. They had fun at a music festival and took many photos at a Chinese art show.

“The three-day vacation was a great experience for me,” Peter said, “I learned a lot about Chinese traditional art and history.”

7 . Clubs for High School

Asian Culture Club with Ms. Huang: Tuesdays 4pm. —5pm.

From Peking Opera to K-pop, from dumplings to sushi, Asian Culture Club provides bridge between different cultures. It is a club for students to have the opportunity to gain knowledge about Asian cultures and to come together to build relationships with fellow students from different cultural backgrounds.

Creative Writing Club with Candlin: Fridays 11:55am -12:35pm

If you want to do some free writing and share with other writers, come to this club. Together we’ll spend time writing side by side 9 voluntarily sharing what we come up with, and offering one another warm feedback on our work.

Yoga Club with Ms. Vilchez-Blatt: Mondays 3:30 pm-4:20pm.

Stretch, strengthen and move your body with a challenging combination of Yoga and Fitness! You’ll also learn tools for managing stress and easing anxiety, for overall focus, for self-care and self-love. This club is also great to support students in their other sports and activities.

8 . I was talking to my friend Sandy about our children. Sandy had recently moved into the neighborhood with her four kids: Jane, Joe, Christopher, and her youngest, eighteen-month-old Kim. She seemed happy to have kids nearby, until she saw our dog, Sam.

Sam, our shiny black dog, loved to play with the kids and protect them. But Sandy had a fear of dogs, and she started to back away as Sam approached. I grabbed Sam’s collar and made him sit, trying to ease Sandy’s discomfort.

Sandy mentioned that she needed to get her kids ready to go to their grandmother’s house. Just then, her door opened and her kids rushed out. Sandy shouted at them to stay away from Sam.

The kids huddled (蜷缩) around their mom, looking at Sam cautiously (谨慎地). Emma, my daughter, showed the kids how to approach a dog slowly and properly. The kids were won over by Sam’s friendly nature, but I knew it would take some time for Sandy to change her viewpoint.

After that incident, we made sure that Sam didn’t go near our neighbors without me present. One day, when the kids were playing across the street, I noticed the eighteen-month-old baby heading towards a small hill. I saw a car approaching and shouted to everyone to watch the baby. Without hesitation, Sam rushed out the door and ran across the street towards the baby. He ran to the boy in time to gently push the baby away from the oncoming car. The kids cheered, completely unaware of the danger. They thought Sam had come to play.

Within a year, Sam had made friends with all the neighbors. Even Sandy started to warm up to Sam and would occasionally come over to give him a hug.

9 . ChatGPT has quickly become popular around the world because of its advanced conversational abilities. It can answer questions, do translations, give the main idea of articles and even write codes (代码) for a computer program. It is as good as a human inside a computer.

ChatGPT is making life very convenient. A time might come when people hand it some articles and it makes a well-made report. That could, however, mean job losses. After all, if a computer program can write codes, then it would make a programmer lose his job.

That may be a worry, but it is still too early to worry about that. ChatGPT has more advanced learning features, but it still follows the same technological way. Its biggest advantage lies in the ability to turn words into a language from an ocean of data, but it's still not that creative. AI can quickly draw a picture, but that picture will be based on pictures that it has seen. It can also write books about the future, but the books will be based on articles about the future that it has read.

In comparison, a human brain imagines the future and then tries hard to realize it. AI can imagine a future with faster spaceships, but it can't imagine a world of space as humans can.

So there is no need to worry too much. By being creative there will be plenty of chances for humans to win over AI.