Learning to make the best of it

"If computers can accurately read and decipher human languages, they will bring smarter services to the world," he says.

Yu Su, a final year undergraduate in clinical medicine at Fudan, sought to add more color to eight months of online learning at home with her medical internship at a community hospital in September. During her stint, she was in charge of taking the temperatures of patients.

"It was simple work, but I realized all medics, including those doing the most repetitive and basic tasks, play a role in helping prevent and control the pandemic," says Yu, who has gained admission to a PhD program for immune and allergic skin diseases.

Yu also managed to learn some acting skills when she starred in a drama directed by the medical college of Fudan in October. In the show, which was themed around a group of Shanghai medics dispatched to aid Wuhan, Hubei province, during the pandemic, Yu played the role of a hospital nurse who took care of the elderly.

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