"Believe in the light within yourself" I have memorized this line from seven years ago to now. This is a very famous line in the girl's comic "Guarding Sweetheart".
Whether it is before entering college or after living in college for one or two years, everyone hopes that they can shine, rather than always being transparent and dispensable. It doesn't matter whether you want to get to know the teachers and leaders in the school, make your heroes and goddesses look at you, or win the respect of your classmates.
For outstanding seniors in our senior year, our school selects the top ten students on campus every year. The value of the top ten students is different from the top ten singers on campus. Every student is a truly outstanding person. They They are all shining young men.
From them, I summarized these four points.
Don’t believe the nonsense like “Long live 60 points”. The higher the score, the better. Among the top ten students, most of the seniors are the best in their professions.
What impressed me the most was a senior majoring in electronics and computer science at the School of Mathematical and Physical Information. His grades were outrageously good. Almost all the subjects have a grade point of 4.5 (95 points) or above, and several have a grade point of 100 points. When he showed these results on the stage, thousands of people in the audience exclaimed in unison. The results were indeed very telling.
It is true that every major has its own professional characteristics and cannot be compared horizontally. But majors like science really require hard work to achieve good results. They are different from art majors and require vague inspiration and talent.
Another senior, I mentioned in my previous article, she went to Columbia University through her own application. From an ordinary university in the province to a graduate school in a world-class prestigious university.
There are also many seniors who have gone to graduate schools such as Tsinghua University and Peking University for their excellent academic performance, ranking first in their majors for three consecutive years, and excellent scientific research capabilities. Their future development will definitely be brighter!
In addition to the senior students, there are also many professional teachers. Those who can become university teachers in colleges and universities are actually veritable academic masters.
For example, Shea, who teaches us IELTS speaking, is a truly beautiful student with an authentic American pronunciation.
There are also two very famous teachers in the law school. One is gentle and elegant, and he lives up to his name. He has read a lot of books. Listening to his classes can often make you discover a new world;< /p>
Another teacher can be said to be famous in the whole school. He comes from a grassroots background but relies on his own ability to climb up step by step. Of course, the main way is through learning. He had extremely outstanding test-taking skills and a strong memory, so he went from Zhejiang Normal University to Zhejiang University, studying for a doctorate all the way, and got a doctorate in his thirties. He also started his own class and established a company. His annual income is one million, and it may be much more than that.
Most of such winners in life are based on their initial studiousness and diligence.
The competitions I’m talking about here are not the “Fruit Platter Competition” or “Flower Arrangement Competition”, but competitions that are closely related to your major, such as mathematical modeling competitions, simulation sandboxes, and robotics. Competitions...
These competitions are a great test of your professionalism, which of course is inseparable from the professional learning mentioned above. These types of competitions are equivalent to after-school extensions of classroom learning. They are more in-depth and challenging. They often require not only individual fighting, but also test teamwork skills, interpersonal communication skills, time management skills, mental endurance, etc. etc. In short, it is a great test of personal comprehensive quality.
Some seniors were admitted to a 985 university to study for graduate school early in their junior year just because they repeatedly won provincial first prizes in such professional competitions. Although his professional results may not be the best in the entire profession, his competition results are unmatched.
But in fact, if you want to get good results in such a competition, it is no less difficult than getting first place in a major, because in addition to testing your hard power, the competition will also have many surprises. conditions and uncontrollable human factors.
All you can do is to constantly polish yourself and improve your strength. The specific method is to participate in as many competitions as possible and constantly sum up experience to improve yourself. Only in this way can we show our best state and obtain the best results at the most critical time.
I remember that last semester, a senior went back to his alma mater to give a lecture. The main content was to share the experience of student leaders and communicate with the classmates at the scene.
I was very curious at the time, would a senior return to his alma mater just to exchange experiences as a student cadre? Then how good must he be in this area to be qualified like this. Later I learned that he had graduated from our school ten years ago, but the work he had done along the way was closely related to his experience as a student cadre back then. His sharing also benefited the students present a lot.
The term student cadre itself has a strong class connotation. It’s hard to deny that the titles of chairman, vice-chairman, minister, deputy minister, and officer in student organizations are not oppressive. But you can’t dismiss student organizations entirely because of their bureaucratic nature. Indeed, serving as some cadres can give you more training, gain more attention, and improve yourself to a greater extent.
A senior student from our school previously served as the chairman of the club association in the university and made outstanding contributions to student work. This experience gave her a lot of extra points when she was looking for a job. , and finally successfully applied and became a counselor teacher in a middle school.
Originally, a college student like this who had just stepped out of school had no chance at all, but because she was fully prepared, it was not surprising that she became the youngest counselor in the school.
Another thing I have to mention is the News Center, a student organization. Too many people have grown because of this, and many people have embarked on a journalism path because of this student organization. During their four years in college, they accumulated rich experience in journalism and laid a solid foundation for their subsequent work.
This organization has changed many people’s professional choices and even their life directions.
In universities, people who can shine in student organizations can often get good results in future jobs.
Because they will always stand in the most conspicuous position, always ready to show their best selves to the audience. Of course, they will have more opportunities, get better resources, and have a better life.
Having a specialty will definitely make you shine. The best case scenario for this specialty is to combine it with your major.
For example, if you major in journalism and media, then photography and graphic design can become your specialties. If you major in art, then hand-painting and the like can be your specialty. Your specialty.
It would be great if your expertise can be perfectly combined with your major. You can gain joy while running your own major, and when you use your own expertise to do things, you can in turn consolidate your major. What’s even better is that with professional support, you can use your expertise to make money. For example, if you are a photographer, you can use it to book photo shoots, add photo editing, post-production, etc., and you can make a lot of money. Pocket money.
In college, in addition to the more common specialties of photography and hand-painting, there are also some weird but very interesting specialties, such as aerial photography.
Aerial photography is different from ordinary photography. It requires special flight equipment and flexible operation capabilities. This specialty sounds very cool, and the photos taken are even more cool. Panoramic photography, aerial photography... you can often discover a completely different world from a bird's-eye view.
With this special talent, you will be greatly welcomed when you go to interview with any publicity department of the school. You can even set up your own club because of it. You can also use this skill to work part-time and get a good job. income.
There are also some masters of seal cutting, wood carving, etc. They all shine because of their talents.
In fact, the so-called skill does not mean that you have to focus on a certain craft, but that you have to have your own characteristics. For example, starting a business can also become your characteristic.
There are a lot of college student entrepreneurs in our school. Some of them are more interested in scientific research. They developed machines in the laboratory and successfully applied for patents. They later put them into actual production and were established before graduation. Some have tried to develop their own companies in the direction of new media, running public accounts for college students, constantly innovating, and increasing customer stickiness. As a result, the public accounts they run have become very famous throughout the school and have become the most popular among businesses around the school. Good voice channel.
Someone once said, "I like you because you are different from others." Your special talent is your label. When others mention you, they will think of your very powerful point.
Even ordinary writing and good management can become your specialty.
For example, I know a junior girl named Wei An. She started from her own official account and continued to post on it, and finally became a signed author. Recently, she published her first book.
Another example is the literature graduate student Huai Zuo whom I mentioned before. Relying on his specialty of writing, he not only made money by writing articles, but also started online courses and organized some reading communities. Build yourself into the largest IP, and traffic will naturally gather there.
In universities, these four types of people are never independent. You will often find that people with good professional performance can also achieve excellent results in professional competitions, perform well in student organizations, and even have some small hobbies of their own, which are somewhat different.
In fact, what kind of person you want to be in college depends entirely on your choice and your efforts.
You can also say: I don’t want to be a shining person, I just want to be ordinary. However, I am afraid that you will be mediocre in this life, and you comfort yourself that being ordinary is valuable.
You must keep working hard, move forward bravely, always maintain a humble heart, and always believe in the light within yourself.