Good noon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is ZhangYing major in land resource management. I will talk something about challenges and opportunities in our postgraduate life.
All of the postgraduate today have made a choice to have a further study in CUMT. Our postgraduate life of course will provide us with opportunities to bring out our creativity and talent and there is no denying that we lost our chance to work or enter the society. However, challenges still exist.
At the end of every semester, students in our university should ask ourselves one question as a summary that is As a postgraduate student, what are your major challenges? And I think the answer should include two aspects: studying and professional. We should pay much attention to these two challenges as long as we live in such a competitive world.
A series of challenges in our studies start from almost the beginning of our first year. We may wonder whether we’ve made the right choice of going on learning. We may wonder if the extra activities add credits to our studies. Later on we may be competing with our hardworking, intelligent peers, including our best friends to get more quality credits to gain high scholarship. All of these sounds so familiar and our graduate life have somehow become full of purposes so that we sometimes fail to fully enjoy our educational experience.
Apart from challenges in learning, there are also professional challenges. The competitive world today requires the effective use of knowledge for economic and social development, so our school has made such a rule that graduate should have two published paper when we finish our school or we cannot get our degree. So we have the press in writing papers. Also our professors will give our missions to write paper or do some projects, too. No matter whether we really want it or we are fit to do so.
Indeed, facing these two challenges, how can we manage to be a excellent graduate student and at the same time to enjoy a valuable and rewarding experience?
For me, the solution to the problem lies in do what we should do. As a student we should study hard and in order to relieve our family’s economic burden we should pursue a high scholarship so it needs us to be more active in many cases.
Transforming our challenges into opportunities maybe a effective way to overcome the second challenges. The pressure may also act as motive power. We can only accept what we cannot change and try our best to make it not
so boring and cannot help anymore. In fact, the lack of time is just an excuse, enough time should be found by ourselves. So do not complain any more and to be a person of action. Try to enrich our graduate life, not just full of have
to do but more valuable.
