At the orientation, Professor QIAN Yingyi spent a good two hours explaining to the freshmen 6 aspects including “University and the School”, “undergraduate program”, “school resources”, “integration between the School and the University”, “study methods”, and “life attitude”. Professor QIAN started with an introduction to the history and tradition of Tsinghua University, then looked back on the changes made to undergraduate education of SEM in the past and reforms in recent years, at last focused on the philosophy of undergraduate education of Tsinghua SEM, and described in detail the undergraduate program for 2012 freshmen. He said that this program has gone through years of modifications and perfections. There are 20 “liberal arts” courses and 8 “individual development” measures, which are in line with the education philosophy of “combining general education with individual development”. Professor QIAN also introduced to the students various resources of the school, including student activities, seminars and internet applications. He emphasized that the most valuable resource in Tsinghua however, was faculty members and classmates. In terms of learning methods, Professor QIAN hoped that the students shouldn’t regard university as prolonged high school study. Beside doing exercises, students should read more and think more, and developing a learning ability is more important than acquiring knowledge. He also quoted Einstein and encouraged the students to be more curious, imaginative, independent and critical in their university life. As regard to life attitude, Professor QIAN used the story of Steve Jobs starting up his own business to advise the students to start their university life with an attitude of a beginner.