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Wearing a simple cap and gown, Xue Yifan, 22, looks solemnly into the camera. Standing in front of the big library on campus, her graduation photo is a bit unusual - she is all alone. That’s because Xue is the only paleontology graduate from Peking University this year. 身着学士服，头戴学士帽，22岁的薛逸凡在镜头前显得很严肃。同样以高大的图书馆为背景，薛世凡的毕业照却有些与众不同——照片中只有她一个人，因为她是北京大学古生物学专业今年唯一的毕业生。 The photo went viral after it was posted online. People are impressed by her determination to pursue the academic degree. She devoted herself to a seemingly dull major instead of jumping on the bandwagon. 这张毕业照在被传到网上后迅速走红，她选择这个专业的决心更令人印象深刻。放弃了当下最“火”的专业，薛逸凡却选择了一个看似枯燥无味的专业。 But Xue is not the only student with a genuinely academic goal. There are many more students who choose less popular majors and stick to them, simply because they love what they are learning about. 勇敢追求自己学术目标的远不只薛逸凡一个人，还有很多学生也和她一样因为兴趣爱好而选择了相对冷门的专业。 Pure sound 纯粹的声音 Song Jiazhe, 21, is an audiology student at Zhejiang Chinese Medical University. His university offers the only audiology program for undergraduate students in China. About 100 students graduate from the major every year. | 
