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PKU Leadership & Service @ Peking University (2018-2022)

Zhenyu He · Jobs Stroustrup

Basic Info

  • Period: Sep 2018 — Jun 2022 (4 undergraduate years)
  • Roles: Class Monitor + multiple student organization positions + long-term volunteer + teaching mission leader
  • Organizations: Peking University (School of Physics / Student Union / Volunteer Club / Varsity Baseball / etc.)
  • Location: Beijing + short trip to Qishan County, Shaanxi

Overview

Zhenyu carried substantial student-organization and social-service responsibilities throughout his PKU undergrad. These activities are the substantive basis for the honors listed in Academic Honors @ PKU (2018-2022). This page catalogs the concrete roles + activity outputs, complementing the honors page — honors = “what he received”, this page = “what he did”.

Roles

Class Level

🔹 Class 4 of Grade 2018 — Monitor (班长) (Sep 2018 – Jun 2022, all 4 undergrad years)

  • Led the class for 4 years; in 19-20 year, the class won Model Class Collective with the highest score among candidates (see Academic Honors @ PKU (2018-2022))
  • Served as Monitor for 4 years; organized class activities, Class Academic Star election, class meetings, sports & team-building.

Student Organizations (School of Physics Student Union)

🔹 Vice-Director of External Affairs Department, School of Physics (Jun 2019 – Sep 2019, ~3 months)

  • Transitional role before stepping up to Minister in Sep 2019
  • Main work: evening parties / mixers / academic lecture funding

🔹 Minister of External Affairs Department, School of Physics Student Union (Sep 2019 – Sep 2020, full 1-year term)

  • Maintained relationships with university-corporate partners
  • Annual sponsorship raised ~¥70,000+ (new resume says ~$11,000+/yr)
  • Department annual financial report
  • Cross-department activities: balls, long-distance carbon-reduction running, etc.
  • Pre-confirmed attendees / budget / plans with departments; prepared contingency plans
  • Organized department T-shirt design, cultural festival planning, external representation

🔹 Standing Representative of Student Congress, School of Physics (2019 – 2022, re-elected every year through graduation, 3 consecutive years)

  • Standing representative in the School of Physics student congress
  • Pushed forward events like term elections

Volunteer Service

🔹 Core Member of Children’s Department (Angel House), PKU Volunteer Club (Sep 2018 – Jun 2022, all 4 undergrad years)

  • Weekly visits to Angel House (a Beijing institution caring for congenitally disabled children)
  • Organized volunteer teams, taught children to paint and sing
  • Long-term weekly commitment — distinct from one-off volunteer activities

🔹 Leader of Teaching Mission to Majiang Middle School, Qishan County, Shaanxi (actual service: Jul 7 – Jul 10, 2020; new resume lists Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 for the full project window)

  • Site: Majiang Middle School, Yongchuan Town, Qishan County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province
  • Theme: “Youthful Aspiration, Growing Hand-in-Hand” / “Helping the Will and Cultivating the Wisdom”
  • Personal motivation (key context): Zhenyu spent his first three years of elementary school in the mountain villages of Huaxian County, Weinan, Shaanxi — similar rural background. He proactively contacted the school + recruited Shaanxi-native college classmates to form the team — a personal-ideal-driven project
  • 5 concrete work items:
    1. Coordinated with school, finalized theme
    2. Recruited Shaanxi classmates from different universities to form the team
    3. Shared personal learning experience + “Planning and Habits” talk with all students and parents
    4. Tutored academically-challenged students
    5. Psychological counseling for students with emotional difficulties
  • Thoughtful operational design:
    • Incorporated local culture (Wuzhang Plains historical sites, Zhuge Liang’s traces) into materials to build rapport
    • Told his own true story (mountain-village elementary school → PKU), not abstract preaching
    • Did not lecture from the podium — walked into student groups while talking and discussing
    • Spoke loudly, with standard pronunciation, at slow pace given that elderly grandparent caregivers have hearing difficulty
    • Maintained continuous feedback with school principal and party secretary
  • Result: 93% positive feedback from students
  • This experience directly supports: Academic Honors @ PKU (2018-2022)‘s “Outstanding Young Volunteer Individual Award (19-20 annual)” + “Second Prize of Outstanding Volunteers, School of Physics”; also the core application material for NSD’s “Zhong Guoguang Social Service Scholarship”

🔹 Homecoming High School Practice Group — Co-leader (Nov 2018 – Feb 2019, school-level first prize)

  • Recruited volunteers from different majors
  • Collected info on major features / learning experience / career development
  • Conducted lectures and activity series introducing PKU at high schools
  • Won school-level first prize in Homecoming volunteer activities

Athletics

🔹 PKU Varsity Baseball Team — Third Baseman (Sep 2018 – Sep 2021, 3 years)

  • Varsity third baseman

  • Concrete source for the “Baseball 70%” self-assessment on

Key Achievements Summary

  • Sustained Monitor role for 4 full years; class won top-scoring Model Class Collective
  • PKU Outstanding Student Leader (Top 1%) in 19-20 year — recognition of concentrated student work
  • ~¥70K/yr sponsorship raised as Student Union Minister
  • Teaching mission achieved 93% positive feedback, became the core basis for Outstanding Young Volunteer Individual Award and NSD Zhong Guoguang Scholarship
  • 4 years of weekly long-term care for congenitally disabled children at Angel House (not one-off)
  • 3-year consecutive re-election in Student Congress

Skills Used