如题所述
很多人都认为那些身处象牙塔的大学生们过得很安逸,其实不然.他们每天也要面临着很多压力：高额学费带来的经济压力,父母要求过高所带来的精神压力…
College Pressure
I see two kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure. It is easy to look around for rebels — to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the parents for pushing them too far. But there are no rebels, only victims.
The pressure is heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know incalculable students whose inquiring minds cheer me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I don’t know if they are getting A or C, and I don’t care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax, but they can’t.
Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to increase to 5, 000 in loans after graduation.Encouraged at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning?
Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply integrated.
Poor students! They are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean well: they are trying to steer their sons and daughters toward a secure future. But the sons and daughters want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field.
Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by an indirect route, to their surprise, after many roundabout ways. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not preplanned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.
College Pressure
I see two kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure. It is easy to look around for rebels — to blame the colleges for charging too much money, the parents for pushing them too far. But there are no rebels, only victims.
The pressure is heavy on students who just want to graduate and get a job. If I were an employer I would rather employ graduates who have this range and curiosity than those who narrowly pursued safe subjects and high grades. I know incalculable students whose inquiring minds cheer me. I like to hear the play of their ideas. I don’t know if they are getting A or C, and I don’t care. I also like them as people. The country needs them, and they will find satisfying jobs. I tell them to relax, but they can’t.
Nor can I blame them. They live in a brutal economy. Today it is not unusual for a student, even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer, to increase to 5, 000 in loans after graduation.Encouraged at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth. How could he not feel under pressure throughout college to prepare for this day of reckoning?
Along with economic pressure goes parental pressure. Inevitably, the two are deeply integrated.
Poor students! They are caught in one of the oldest webs of love and duty and guilt. The parents mean well: they are trying to steer their sons and daughters toward a secure future. But the sons and daughters want to major in history or classics or philosophy—subjects with no “practical” value. Where’s the payoff on the humanities? It’s not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed pay off. The intellectual faculties developed by studying subjects like history and classics are just the faculties that make creative leaders in business or almost any general field.
Luckily for me, most of them got into their field by an indirect route, to their surprise, after many roundabout ways. They can hardly conceive of a career that was not preplanned. They can hardly imagine allowing the hand of God or chance to nudge them down some unforeseen trail.
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第1个回答 2011-07-04
大学不是象牙塔，其实，大学是一个人们经过努力能实现梦想的地方。
大学是人们交流知识的圣地。在这里，我们能达成自己的理想。大学是一个我们成功所要通过的地方。既然上了大学，我们就要学会独立，学会过自己的生活，找到自己的奋斗目标。我们要学会独立，要学会追求自己的路子，我们应该尽量脱离爸妈的帮助，寻求真正属于自己人生之路。
我们可以找一些事情自己做，不要整天过着悠闲的生活，走自己的路，尽量脱离爸妈的帮助，远离爸妈，做真正的自己。我们必须明白当今的社会制度，没有一定的知识技能，我们是很难在社会上立足的。真的我们必须明白一个道理，大学不是象牙塔。本回答被提问者采纳
大学是人们交流知识的圣地。在这里，我们能达成自己的理想。大学是一个我们成功所要通过的地方。既然上了大学，我们就要学会独立，学会过自己的生活，找到自己的奋斗目标。我们要学会独立，要学会追求自己的路子，我们应该尽量脱离爸妈的帮助，寻求真正属于自己人生之路。
我们可以找一些事情自己做，不要整天过着悠闲的生活，走自己的路，尽量脱离爸妈的帮助，远离爸妈，做真正的自己。我们必须明白当今的社会制度，没有一定的知识技能，我们是很难在社会上立足的。真的我们必须明白一个道理，大学不是象牙塔。本回答被提问者采纳
