英语晨读1-4

Do some Major have a gender bias？

Some majors attract more women，and some attract more men. Perhaps it’s genetically predisposed or a result of gender-biased education. As journalism major at Temple University, the majority of my classmates were women. It wasn’t an overwhelming percentage, but close to 65％.

The curriculum was challenging, and the professors were all lifters in the journalism field. From the basic introductory classes to the upper-level courses, each professor pushed for higher-quality writing, more attention to accuracy and detail, and a healthy respect for the grammar police.

By my senior year, I had forged close relationship with the professors in the department. I was a conscientious student. I completed my homework on the subway, and sometimes in the few minutes before class started, usually with an A result every time.

One of my professors had conference with each student to discuss their strengths and weaknesses, and my conference was nothing but a glowing review. I was asked to tutor other students and I gladly complied. Someone in the journalism department had decided that I was the most promising student. I’m not sure which professor, but I had a guardian angel.

Then, I noticed that several women in my classes also were experiencing a similar phenomenon. But the men in my classes were struggling, barely making the grade. Was it gender discrimination or were the female student simply superior writer？ I think a combination of both was at play.

While my friends who were majoring in biology and engineering lamented that professors held the male students in higher regard, I experienced the opposite situation.

My professors, both men and women, consistently made comments about the superiority of the female students. I wasn’t about to argue, but the bias was obvious.

Passionate acts on campus

Many of my friends have experienced of a four-day step: on the first day, they meet each other and exchange their mobile numbers; on the second day, he sends her a short message

saying how he has madly, passionately and hopelessly fallen in love with her; and on the third day, he invite her out to see a movie, then he holds her hand in public; so on the fourth day, they become a common couple among the thousands of young lovers on campus.

Since I am not the president of university, I don’t want to say that there should be a limit on public display of affection. But I just feel doubtful whether it is the best way to show our love in public. Well, unfortunately, I haven’t found my Mr. Right now. To tell the truth, I really feel jealous of those young lovers. But deep in my heart, I more than once imagined how I should meet my Mr. Right, and how we should display our love in public. My imagination was like this: That would be a rainy Sunday afternoon, and I was wandering in the library. Suddenly, my hands stop at a book called A Beautiful Mind, and exactly at the same time, another boy reached out his hand for the same b ook. “Excuse me.” he said. Then I raised my eyes, and I saw a handsome tall boy, just like Beckham, with a high nose and wearing a blushing smile looking at my face. Oh, I was drunk with the beautiful feelings —I really found him. We’ve found our similarity in reading books, and from then on, we should go to the bookstores in our city whenever we were free. And the best scene in my mind to show our love in public is that we lie on the grass land on my campus, and I read a part of Jane Eyre to him, and he reads a part of Oliver Twist to me. Don’t you think it is a romantic scene for the young lovers to show their love to each other?