Harvard University student's daily life

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The daily life of a Harvard student

What kind of play potential do people have? Human will, human talent, human ideals, why can they be realized at Harvard? Harvard's student cafeteria, it is difficult to hear the sound of talking, each student sat down with a pizza and coke, often eat while reading or taking notes. I've never seen any student just eat without reading, much less seen any student eating while chatting. Feeling Harvard, the restaurant is just a library where you can eat, an alternative to the authentic 100 libraries of Harvard. Harvard's hospital, the same tranquility, the same no matter how many people in the waiting list also no one talking, no one is not reading or recording. The hospital remains an extension of the library. So Harvard has produced 33 Nobel Prize winners. Harvard has produced seven U.S. presidents.

Harvard campus, do not see the gorgeous dress, do not see the makeup, and do not see the wobbly, only hurried feet, solidly write the chapter of life. Harvard is not a myth, Harvard is just a proof of human will, spirit, ambition and ideal proof.

Xie Juan, the producer of CCTV's "World Famous Universities", once took a film crew to Harvard University for an interview. She told people: to Harvard University, it was 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, but to our surprise, the entire campus was then brightly lit, it was a city that never sleeps. In the cafeteria, library and classrooms, there were still many students reading books. The strong atmosphere of learning infected us immediately. At Harvard, students study day and night. At that time, I realized that in the United States, in a famous school like Harvard, the pressure on students is very great. In Harvard, you can see people sleeping everywhere, even on the benches in the cafeteria. And the people coming and going next to them for meals do not find it unusual. Because they know that these people who fall asleep are really too tired. In Harvard, we see the most is the students while nibbling on the bread while forgetting to read a book. When you get to Harvard, you'll know where the gap is between Chinese colleges and universities.

In the Harvard interview, the deepest feeling is that the Harvard students learn too hard, but they obviously also enjoy it. What makes Harvard students happy with their suffering? My feeling is that they have a strong interest in the field they are studying. And then there is the sense of purpose that burns in the hearts of Harvard students to take on important responsibilities in the future. From these students, you can feel the energy of their lives bursting forth here.

A girl from Peking University studying at Harvard said that undergraduates at Harvard have to take at least 4 major courses per semester, 8 courses a year, and 32 courses and exams in 4 years before they can graduate. Generally, the school requires undergraduates to complete the core curriculum within the first two years of enrollment, and then enter a major program of study starting in the third year. Only the brightest and most gifted students can finish these 32 courses in two or three years, and the average student is already busy with just four classes, because the professors speak fast in the classroom, no matter if you understand what they are saying, and then leave a lot of reading material in the classroom, so if you don't finish it, you won't be able to finish your homework at all. The Peking University girl said that the amount of reading I do here in a week is the amount of reading I do in Peking University in a year, and the amount of homework required at Harvard is very large, she said, we have to spend a lot of time after class to read books and preview cases. Each class requires a lot of preparation in advance, well-prepared before class, in order to communicate with others in the classroom, to contribute your personal thoughts, in order to learn with everyone, otherwise, you can not be integrated into the classroom teaching, when each student has invested the time to seriously prepare for the process of classroom discussions can be quickly advanced, and if you don't read so much before, you can't take part in classroom The pressure to learn also comes from the fact that Harvard students are under pressure to learn. Harvard students' academic pressure also comes from the school's elimination mechanism. Harvard average of about 20% of the students each year because of the examination failed or not enough to repair the credits and suspension or withdrawal, and elimination of 20% of the students of the assessment is not completed at the end of the semester, each class should be recorded in the speech grade, on average, accounting for 50% of the total grade, which requires students to even force, can not relax. In Harvard, not only the students are under pressure, but also the teachers. In the Harvard classroom, teachers are required to teach new things. Every year, teachers have to keep up with the development of cutting-edge science. Therefore, Harvard teachers must be at the forefront of scientific research. Harvard believes that a professor should first and foremost be a scholar, able to enjoy challenge and innovation, and able to communicate persuasively with others.

Professor Yau Cheng-tung, a tenured professor at Harvard University, said: The college life of Chinese college students is too easy in comparison, and we always say how much Chinese children suffer for the college entrance exams, but in fact, in some famous high schools in the United States, high school learning is also very hard. When my kids were in middle school, they often studied until midnight. In the United States, as they get older, the task of studying increases little by little. When they get to college, it's the hardest part. All elite education must be hard work. But when Chinese kids get to college, they relax all of a sudden. They relax 4 years, it happens to be the most diligent 4 years of American college students, the golden 4 years of life energy accumulation. Therefore, the U.S. has always had the most high-tech talents in the world. Some of our domestic key universities are difficult for people to feel Harvard as the atmosphere of learning and inquiry atmosphere, to Harvard, you realize that the real elite is not a genius, are to pay more efforts.

Contrast between Chinese and American college students

When it comes to the comparison between Chinese and American college students, there are two points worth mentioning. One is that our students lack the spirit of hard work. Our parents and students think that the period before the college entrance examination is the most bitter. We talk about studying hard in the cold window, and very often it is a passive suffering with utilitarianism, rather than having a strong interest in it. Many college students go through the college entrance exam? The one-tree bridge? After the university campus, began to comfortably wait for graduation: class want to escape on the escape; exams before the interim. Secondly, some parents also instill this idea in their children from childhood, so that children think that all the study is for the college entrance examination. So, the college entrance examination is over, learning becomes no longer important. And in the United States universities, especially the elite gathered in the university to pay the pain is we can not imagine. At Harvard, conquering learning is everyone's slogan. To be strong you need to learn more, and for this reason Harvard's curriculum is large and intense. The purpose is to help students improve their critical thinking skills and imagination, learn to discover and identify the truth, insist on a rigorous analysis of things, and be able to rationally and historically understand real and ethical issues. In addition, practicing the perseverance of long hours of overloaded learning.

When American college students with a strong interest in building up their energy to prepare for entering the workforce, Chinese college students took a long breath and thought, "I can finally take a good break and rest. Chinese-style education makes students before the college entrance exam? The Chinese style education makes the students to exert themselves too much before the college entrance exams. Too hard, at the stage of the ability to reserve not only did not accumulate energy, but a large number of such energy consumption. A Chinese teacher who traveled to the United States said that Chinese students are left far behind by American students at the university level. The root cause also lies in our basic education. American elementary school is the knowledge of the Scrooge, strict limitations on the number of children to get knowledge, a month only allows children to get a knowledge, children need to pay a lot of sweat and hard work for each piece of knowledge; in the process, hands-on, thinking and feeling than the knowledge itself is more important; children are always hungry for knowledge. And Chinese primary education is a greedy ghost, treating knowledge as free gold jewelry. Chinese educators do not know the relationship between knowledge and wisdom, and always let children get more and more knowledge directly. The wisdom of American education lies in: first let the child to feel, to think, and then get knowledge, this time knowledge becomes wisdom; because the beginning of the time, the knowledge are particularly simple, easier to get to feel, knowledge is also easy to become wisdom. Wisdom is actually what we often call creativity. There are three stages of learning: perceptual awareness? Perceptual awareness? Knowledge, knowledge is the highest stage of learning. American education allows children to go through the three stages to get knowledge; Chinese education is to allow children to get knowledge through perceptual awareness, or directly get knowledge. The amount of knowledge in one month of American education is only equivalent to the amount of knowledge in one day of Chinese education. The difference is 29 days, which is the time of sense perception. American education produces one more thing than Chinese education by letting the child sense perception: wisdom. American students produce one more thing than Chinese students: the ability to innovate. In high school, American schools cultivate the habit of independent learning. Compare China, China's high school is the teacher duck learning, so that students are used to dependence. The gap in ability and habit makes Chinese students and American students choose different lifestyles and attitudes in college. Harvard students say that studying at Harvard is intense, with little sleep, and a feeling of being in purgatory, which is a great challenge to the will. But if you can get through it, you will be able to overcome any big difficulties in the future. Chinese college students think that they are finally free from bondage and can do whatever they want. As a result, they spend most of their time on things other than studying. We are cut off when we should study the most. This is doomed, our college students are thrown farther and farther away.

Many scholars use the pyramid to describe the learning ability of Chinese and American students. The difference is that Chinese children's ability to learn is a positive pyramid, the older they get the less room they have to learn. And American students' learning is an inverted pyramid, they learn the ability to learn continuously. The motivation of Chinese students to learn, as well as the university's strict entry and exit education system, make them feel that going to college is an incredibly easy thing to do. There is no power from themselves to urge them to study, so relaxation becomes a common state of affairs, and they are all trying to get back the leisure time that has been withheld from them for the previous 12 years, and they are enjoying themselves. Chinese students are studying hard for 12 years and relaxing in college. American students are? 12 years of leisure, and then they start studying hard and playing hard in college. This is the most valuable golden learning stage before going to the society, these 4 years, they will have a qualitative leap in the improvement of skills and emotional intelligence. At Harvard, professors often remind students to do a good job of time management. On the road of life, you stop and don't move forward, but some people are rushing desperately. Maybe when you stand, he is still in your back forward to catch up, but when you look back again, you can no longer see his figure, because, he has run in front of you, need you to catch up with him. Therefore, you can not stop, you have to keep moving forward, and constantly beyond. Success and comfort are not both, choose one, you must give up the other end. If you don't work hard today, you will surely suffer tomorrow. Harvard told its students: ? The pain of learning is temporary, the pain of not learning is lifelong. And our college students, are savoring this pain, and our nation is paying the price for it.

Harvard graduates have a tradition: donate to Harvard. One-third of Harvard's funding comes from donations. Many of the parents of the students, too, are Harvard alumni, Harvard people. Generations of Harvardians, entering the upper echelons of society have in turn returned wealth to their alma mater, Harvard. Annual donations are an important part of Harvard's income. Giving is often mutual. Whether it is Harvard's giving or Harvard's giving that comes first is a question that is as unclear as whether the chicken lays the egg or the egg lays the chicken. Or only let Harvard tell you. Harvard has no skyscrapers, only the red brick walls of New England. Even Nobel Prize winners have no more than an absolutely unremarkable parking space on campus. After all, Harvard is most notable for its 100 libraries, and especially for the people who act like libraries, or rather, one person is a library. Harvard or Harvardians don't need any packaging. Some have called Swartz an Oriental-like great scholar at Harvard, who, at the age of 82, when he had surgery for cancer, still went to his office every morning on time to work, even if he sometimes had to collapse. The two hangers in his office where he hangs his coats are, after all, haphazardly twisted with wire.

A professor said to students, you learn my course, you can only sleep two hours a day. The student thought, "Well, if I take four courses, I won't get any sleep, I'll have to sleep backwards. A PhD student at Harvard may have to devour a big book every three days, several hundred pages each, and turn in a reading report. Harvard across the bridge is Boston, the former head of the Department of Anthropology Zhang Guangzhi in Harvard doctoral years, did not go on the bridge has not been to Boston.

Harvard students or Harvard professors, first of all, is not an honor, but a proof. What kind of willpower can a person have, and what kind of potential can a person have? Harvard tells you. Harvard is a symbol, a symbol of the highest wisdom, a symbol of the highest school. Why can human will, human talent, human ideal, be realized at Harvard? Harvard tells you.

As a world-famous institution of learning, Harvard University has trained many celebrities, among whom there are 33 Nobel Prize winners, seven U.S. presidents, and professional elites from all walks of life. What exactly makes Harvard the cradle of the elite? What kind of spirit and philosophy have Harvard students embraced? These questions have attracted thousands of people to find out the answers.

Harvard Motto

Appendix: Harvard Library's 20 Motto:

1. Napping at the moment, you will dream; and studying at the moment, you will dream.

2. Today, which I have wasted, is the very tomorrow for which those who perished yesterday prayed.

3. When you think it's too late, it's the earliest possible time.

4. Don't put off today until tomorrow.

5. The pain of learning is temporary, but the pain of not learning is lifelong.

6. Learning is not a matter of lack of time, but lack of effort.

7. Happiness may not be ranked, but success must be ranked.

8. Learning is not all of life. But since even a part of life? Learning can not be conquered, what else can be done?

9. Please enjoy the unavoidable pain.

10. Only by working earlier and harder than others can you taste success.

11. No one can succeed casually, it comes from thorough self-management and perseverance.

12. Time is running out.

13. The saliva that flows now will be the tears of tomorrow.

14. Learn like a dog, play like a gentleman.

15. If you don't walk today, you will run tomorrow.

16. The person who invests in the future is the one who stays true to reality.

17. Educational attainment represents income.

18. One day passes and does not come back.

19. Even now, opponents keep turning the pages.

20. Nothing is gained without hardship.

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Harvard teachers often give students this admonition: If you want to enter society, at any time in any occasion can be competent and get the due evaluation, then you in Harvard during the period of study, there is no sunshine time. A popular motto at Harvard? Busy with the fall harvest, busy with the fall planting, study, study, study again.

People's time and energy are limited, so it is important to use the time to catch up on your studies, rather than using all your spare time to doze off.

Some people will say this: ? I just snooze in my spare time, why do I make myself so nervous in my spare time? Einstein once suggested: "The difference between people is in their spare time. The difference between people is in their spare time. A friend of mine who teaches at Harvard also told me that if you know how a young man spends his spare time, you can predict what his future will be.

Learn like a dog, play like a gentleman

We say that we should cherish our time, and strive to realize our ideals, but there is one thing we should pay attention to, and that is not to work hard, but also to have a moderate amount of rest and relaxation. In this regard, Harvard has a very apt saying called ? Dog like learning, gentleman like playing? The words are slightly vulgar, but the truth is very profound.

In Harvard, although the intensity of learning is very great, students are under a lot of pressure to learn, but they do not advocate that students use all the time to study. They believe that learning should be done to the best of one's ability, and play should not be neglected. Harvard students also say that Harvard's after-school life is better than formal study. And Harvard also realizes that moderate extracurricular activities not only do not deviate from the educational mission, but also give support to the educational mission. Therefore, they propose to play like ? Play like a gentleman?

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was this conundrum in mathematics that the result of subtracting 1 from 2 to the 76th power was not a prime number as people had guessed. Many scientists worked hard to overcome this mathematical challenge, but the results were not as expected. 1903, in the Mathematical Society of New York, a scientist called Cole successfully proved this problem through convincing arithmetic arguments.

People, in amazement and admiration, asked Cole: ? How long did it take you to argue this subject a ****? Cole replied: ?All Sunday in 3 years.?

Similarly, Osler, a Canadian medical educator, is an example of what can be accomplished in one's spare time. Osler's greatest contribution to humanity was his successful research on the third blood cell. He made it a rule to read for 15 minutes before going to bed in order to squeeze out time for reading from his busy schedule. No matter how late he was busy, he insisted that this habit would not change. This habit he insisted on a whole half century, *** read more than 1,000 books, achieved remarkable results.

In Harvard, students in addition to intense study, will also participate in a variety of art activities organized by the school, such as concerts, theater performances, dance performances and various art exhibitions, etc. In addition, Harvard will hold an annual arts festival to enliven the spare time of students. These activities filled with a strong artistic atmosphere not only allow students to receive artistic education and culture, but also improve the students' artistic cultivation and aesthetic ability.

The idea of Harvard is to ask you to be able to forget them completely for a while after a stressful day of study and work, and to devote yourself to playing and relaxing as much as you do to working. Indeed, the restoration of physical strength and energy gained while you are doing your best to relax will add endless power to the next stage of your struggle. So, on the way forward, you should not only work hard, but also learn to relax.

As a world-renowned institution, Harvard places great emphasis on having a long-term vision and investing in the future. To invest in the future, we need to set a good direction for future investment, that is, to set life goals early. Without a goal, there is no development, not to mention success.

Harvard University has conducted a tracking survey, the object is a group of intelligence, education and environmental conditions are similar to the young people. The results of the survey found that: 27% of people do not have a goal; 60% of people have vague goals; 10% of people have a clear but relatively short-term goals; the remaining 3% of people have a clear and long-term goals.

In the years that followed, they traveled on their own journeys, and 25 years later, Harvard followed up with this group of students again. The result is this: 3% of the people, in the 25 years towards a direction of unremitting efforts, almost all of them have become successful people in all walks of life, including many industry leaders and social elites; 10% of the people, their short-term goals continue to be realized, to become a professional in various fields, most of them are living in the middle and upper class of the society; 60% of the people, they live and work in a peaceful way, but there is no special achievement, and almost always live in the middle and lower class of society. The remaining 27% have no goals in their lives, and often complain about others, society, and of course, themselves.

In fact, the difference between them is simply that, 25 years ago, some of them already knew what they most wanted to do, while others were unclear or not very clear. This survey vividly illustrates the importance of having clear life goals for success in life.

The above is a day in the life of a Harvard student.